Author: Paige Kobza (Page 2)
12/13/24
“Walt Disney and I always said we were two children looking for our inner adults.” Dick Van Dyke, who is 99 years young, said that about the man who made…
12/6/24
“Everyone deserves the chance to fly.” Like 22 million of my closest friends, I was flying after hearing these lyrics and seeing the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Wicked…
11/22/24
“It would be impossible for me to care any less about what you are tired of.” Apologies for the hostility on a Friday – it is just an apt movie…
11/15/24
“I imagine that right now, you’re feeling a bit like Alice. Tumbling down the rabbit hole?” Morpheus says that to Neo in the 1999 science fiction action film The Matrix.…
11/8/24
“It’s all happening.” This is a theme in the film Almost Famous that “Penny Lane” emotes but actually says in the movie to explain how she tries to live in…
10/25/24
“Looks like you’ve been missing a lot of work lately.” “Well, I wouldn’t exactly say I’ve been missing it, Bob.” That’s dialogue from Office Space, a movie about people who…
10/11/24
I’ve been called a force of nature, and I know it is not meant as a compliment. But when Nobel prize winner George Bernard Shaw coined the phrase, he was…
10/4/24
“Helene, you’re just plain mean.” This is America, so of course, someone out there spoofed Dolly Parton’s amazing song Jolene just because it rhymes with this terrible storm. What is…
09/20/24
“Everyone’s got an act.” That was Zendaya as Anne Wheeler in The Greatest Showman, a movie about P.T. Barnum’s idea to feature the outcasts of society as entertainment. It may…
09/6/24
“It’s showtime!” Michael Keaton says that in the first Beetlejuice movie which was many things – but mostly proof that Michael Keaton is an incredibly talented and versatile actor. The…