Contest: Jack the Giant Slayer — and An Exclusive Look at the New “Jack the Giant Slayer” Game for Kids

Posted on June 17, 2013 at 7:00 am

Ewan-McGregor-Eleanor-Tomlinson-and-Nicholas-Hoult-in-Jack-the-Giant-Slayer-2013-Movie-Image-600x338I really enjoyed Jack the Giant Slayer, next week’s DVD/Blu-Ray Pick of the Week, and I am very excited to have five copies to give away.  Send me an email at moviemom@moviemom.com with “Jack” in the subject line, and tell me your favorite fairy tale.  Don’t forget your address!  (US addresses only) I’ll pick winners at random on June 23.  Good luck!

Families will enjoy this game featuring some of the movie’s characters.

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Quiz: Father’s Day Movies

Posted on June 16, 2013 at 3:35 pm

How many of these can you identify?

1. This movie is based on the true story of a pioneering “motion study” couple (efficiency, occupational safety, and ergonomics) engineer who brought their techniques to family life.

2. What movie has a widower with a young son who almost marries the wrong woman until his young son guides him in the right direction?

3. What movie has a divorced dad who almost marries the wrong woman until his daughters guide him in the direction of their mother?

4.  A man and his roommates unexpectedly find themselves responsible for a baby he did not know he had fathered.

5. What Oscar-winning director directed his father and his daughter in Oscar-winning performances?

6. What real-life Oscar-winning father and daughter played father and daughter on screen in a movie based on a hit play?

7.  Two top directors made movies with soundtracks composed by their fathers.  Who are they?

8. In this Oscar-winning movie based on a best-selling book, a father devastated by the loss of a son must decide between supporting his wife or the son who survived.

9. In this movie, when the birthday party entertainer does not show up, the birthday boy’s father steps in.

10. A father spends most of a movie looking for his lost son in this animated classic with an upcoming sequel.

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Father’s Day on TCM: Mankiewicz and Mankiewicz

Posted on June 16, 2013 at 12:00 pm

Celebrate Father’s Day on Turner Classic Movies with the father and son team of Ben and Frank Mankiewicz picking the line-up.  The TCM host and his politico father are the grandson and son of the legendary Herman Mankiewicz, who wrote the screenplay for the movie many people consider the greatest of all time, “Citizen Kane.”

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Adam Bernstein writes in The Washington Post:

“Citizen Kane” co-screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, who died in 1953, wrote some of the best and most popular movies of all time. His son Frank skipped a career in film and became a top aide to Democratic Sens. Robert Kennedy and George McGovern during their presidential runs.

Frank’s son Ben Mankiewicz grew up in Washington in the 1970s and 1980s in what he called the “political wing” of his family. But on TCM for the past decade, he has found a niche bringing movies of his grandfather’s day to a modern audience.

On Sunday, Ben and Frank Mankiewicz are hosting a Father’s Day lineup on TCM that includes “Citizen Kane” (1941), which ranks first among the American Film Institute’s greatest films of all time. As a tribute to Frank Mankiewicz’s political career, TCM is also screening “All the King’s Men” (1949) with Broderick Crawford and “The Last Hurrah”(1958) with Spencer Tracy.

The wild card is “Smokey and the Bandit” (1977), essentially one long car chase between Burt Reynolds and an exasperated sheriff played by Jackie Gleason. Ben Mankiewicz, who is 45, chose it because it was the first film he remembers seeing with his father.

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Father’s Day Movie List from Sandie Angulo Chen

Posted on June 16, 2013 at 8:00 am

I’ve already created a gallery about some of my favorite movie dads and will post some more when my forthcoming book, 50 Must-See Movies: Fathers, is released.  So, I thought for this year’s Father’s Day celebration I would share the list from my friend and fellow critic, Sandie Angulo Chen, selected with the help of her husband.  Happy Father’s Day to Hans Chen, my dad, my husband, and all the men who love the children in their lives.

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