March 12, 2013 - 11:30am
Tony has just met a girl named Maria!
It's an age-old story: two young people fall deeply and desperately in love with each other, as young people are wont to do. But what to do when the lovers are a part of rival factions? Can love transcend everything? Heal wounds, bridge gaps, and all that jazz? We are, of course, talking about...
March 5, 2013 - 11:45am
This movie is ALSO like a box o' chocolates.
I loved Forrest Gump from the first time I saw it. At that young age, I didn't necessarily have all the cultural context to understand the significance of each of the events Mr. Gump inserts himself into throughout the course of the film, but it was fun and heartwarming, and I loved the largely...
February 12, 2013 - 11:34am
Yippe-ki-yay mother...person.
Ask any group what the best Christmas movie is, and somebody will inevitably say Die Hard while nodding knowledgeably at their own badassery. I personally feel this is a cop-out. A film set during the holidays does not a Christmas movie make. But this is just my opinion, open to heated debate,...
January 30, 2013 - 12:48pm
Johnny Law gets too close to the boys in George Roy Hill's 1969 classic.
It's interesting to think about how we as a culture perceive our historical or legendary outlaws. Our society views such people with admiration. We make movies where the bad guys are the good guys. If a man and a woman ran around the country today holding up banks and killing people, society...
January 23, 2013 - 11:30am
Presenting Hitchcock's 1955 classic on the big screen.
Alfred Hitchcock made a lot of movies. Seriously, it's impressive. Not quite as impressive as the works of John Ford, perhaps, but it is a hefty list nonetheless – and hardly a stinker among the bunch. How many directors can claim to have quite as many iconic films as he has? Psycho,...
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