Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Dr Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1996) Unrated Directed by Chuck Jones & Ben Washam Production Company MGM Television Starring Boris Karloff, June Foray, Thurl Ravenscroft. A grouchy creature known as the Grinch decides to take out his distaste for Christmas by stealing the holiday from the Whos down in Whoville. Opening Thoughts It’s […]
Avonlea “Memento Mori”
Avonlea “Memento Mori” Not Rated Season 5 Episode 2 (air date 3/7/94) Directed by Don McBrearty Production Company Sullivan Entertainment Starring Sarah Polley, Jackie Burroughs, Mag Ruffman, Cedric Smith, Lally Cadeau In the quaint village of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island, Hetty, matriarch of the King family, prepares to celebrate her 50th […]
Walking Distance
Martin Sloan is a businessman, harried, tired, fed up with his life, and looking for a break from it all. He finds himself at a filling station just outside the town of Homewood, where he grew up…
Journey of Natty Gann
The Journey of Natty Gann (1985) Rated PG Directed by Jeremy Kagan Walt Disney Pictures Starring Meredith Salenger, John Cusack, Ray Wise, Scatman Crothers, Lainie Kazan During the Great Depression, a teenage girl travels across the country in search of her father. Opening Thoughts Seventeen years ago this month, I sat in my pastor’s […]
Hacksaw Ridge
Hacksaw Ridge (2016) Rated R Directed by Mel Gibson Production Company: Summit Entertainment Starring Andrew Garfield, Vince Vaughn, Sam Worthington, Hugo Weaving A young man volunteers for combat duty in World War II despite his spiritual convictions to not kill another human being. Opening Thoughts How was your Fourth of July? I spent mine […]
The Last Unicorn
A solitary unicorn discovers that all the rest of her kind have disappeared, and she sets out on a journey to find them, aided by a clumsy wizard and a bandit’s wife…
Under the Tuscan Sun
Being a creature of habit and tradition, I like to watch this movie in early February, bringing in Valentine’s Day in the best way I know how…with happy sighs and chocolate hearts. I guess this isn’t a romance movie per se, at least, it doesn’t have a traditional love story. Rather, Under the Tuscan Sun is about a woman, Frances, who divorces her husband after he…
Tron 1982
TRON (1982) Rated PG Directed by Steven Lisbergere Walt Disney Pictures Starring Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, Cindy Morgan, David Warner, Dan Shor A computer programmer is sucked into a digital world of his own design where he must defeat a devious artificial intelligence intent on taking over the whole system. Opening Thoughts This is […]
8-Bit Christmas
The movie begins in the present day with an adult Jake showing his cell-phone obsessed daughter his Nintendo gaming system. He then proceeds to share the story of a boyhood Christmas when…
Red Dawn
It’s an ordinary September day in Calumet, Colorado. High schoolers Matt, Aardvark, Daryl, Robert, and Danny are in a history class when paratroopers start to drift down from the sky. The troops begin slaughtering teachers and students alike as Matt’s brother Jed rescues them from the attack, speeding them away in his truck…