Before I get to this year’s Christmas Day review let me wish each and every one of you dear readers a Merry Christmas (or whatever you choose to celebrate today) and a Happy New Year! Christmas 2014 concludes with another holiday movie remake. Penny Marshall’s Old Hollywood roots run deep, at least in terms of…
Originally published December 15th, 2012 Part two of my three-part series of Little Women reviews discusses the 1994 version of Louisa May Alcott’s classic. This is the Little Women I grew up with folks, and it’s probably the more star-studded of the three to modern audiences (which is not to say that the 1949 version…
It’s been a mini-Lifetime movie marathon over the last three weeks with both Grace of Monaco and The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe preceding today’s film. Where those latter two Lifetime features had the benefit of A) decades of written and filmed history to put us in perspective and B) money, we look back at…
This is the first of two reviews I’ve written especially for this holiday season (don’t say I never got you anything for Christmas!). I gave my thoughts on 1947’s Miracle on 34th Street in a previous review which you can peruse here before reading my thoughts on the remake. I was rather harsh regarding this…
Our final tribute to Nick and Nora Charles is a pair of documentaries included with the Complete Thin Man box set. (I assumed the final disc, Alias Nick and Nora, was a documentary discussing the legacy of their work in the Thin Man series as a whole.) William Powell: A True Gentleman and Hollywood Remembers:…
This, as well as the next two weeks worth of Disney movies, will be first-time viewings for me which should spark interesting discussions in the comments. I avoided Tarzan when it came out initially, mainly because the Tarzan story didn’t appeal to me and because Disney had mined similar territory two years prior with George…
We’re down to the final three films of the 90s – the Disney Decade – and it’s evident that the company was resting on their laurels. Everything from the animation, the songs, and the stories screamed of recycling and an overall loss of heart that we hadn’t seen since the beginning of the decade. Mulan…
