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12/10/21

December 10, 2021

It is that most wonderful time of the year when everyone asks you “are you ready for the holidays?” What is that, some sort of test? NO we are not…

12/3/21

December 3, 2021

Over Thanksgiving break, we watched the new movie Tick Tick Boom. It is an autobiographical musical by and about Jonathan Larson, the musical whiz kid that modernized musical theater with…

11/18/21

November 18, 2021

The most important news of the past week is pretty obvious: Paul Rudd was named People Magazine’s 2021 Sexiest Man Alive. The weirdly-never-ages movie star celebrated with his Ant-Man cast.…

11/10/21

November 10, 2021

Is there any super-intense character that Benedict Cumberbatch can’t play? He manages to be completely believable playing real-life famous people in movies, like genius-physicist Stephen Hawking and computer scientist Alan…

11/5/21

November 5, 2021

Life is not simple right now. Even our movies are complicated. Take the new movie Dune, for instance. It is based on a convoluted, brick-heavy sci-fi novel about a futuristic…

10/29/21

October 29, 2021

Sometimes the costumes are so good on Halloween night that you can’t recognize the neighborhood kids. You have to look past the kids to see which parents are standing at…

10/21/21

October 22, 2021

Unless you are a parent of an older teenager / 20-something, there is a good chance that you never saw Phineas and Ferb — a Disney cartoon series (2008-2015) that…

10/15/21

October 15, 2021

Dolly Parton is a talented artist, but most of us think of her as a country singer-songwriter. We were reminded of her strong acting chops when we re-visited the iconic…

10/8/21

October 8, 2021

There are good surprises and bad surprises. A good surprise was learning that 95-year-old Tony Bennett and his younger counterpart Lady Gaga released a new album called Love For Sale,…

09/30/21

September 30, 2021

Netflix acquired the Roald Dahl Story Company, promising that we can watch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory over and over again. (Hopefully they mean the Gene Wilder version, because WOW…