Posted on May 9, 2020 at 12:01 am
In honor of Mother’s Day, my ebook 50 Must-See Movies: Mothers will be free on Amazon May 9-12, 2020. No relationship is more primal, more fraught, more influential, more worried over, more nurturing when good and more devastating when bad than our connection to our mothers. The first eyes to look at us with love, …
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Posted on May 6, 2020 at 3:39 pm
These movies are about kids having an adventure, mostly for older kids, 10 and up. The Last Action Hero: Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as an action hero and as the actor who plays him in this PG-13 film that is a satire of and an affectionate love letter to action films. A young fan gets pulled …
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Posted on May 6, 2020 at 9:30 am
The American Film Institute’s annual Documentary Film Festival highlights the best non-fiction films of the of the year, and they are not going to let a COVID-19 get in the way. Instead of showing the films at their theater in Silver Spring, Maryland and venues in Washington, D.C. they are moving the festival online. The …
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Posted on May 1, 2020 at 8:00 am
Many thanks to Professor Christopher Llewelyn Reed for inviting me on his show to talk about what’s streaming now for people who are stuck at home. Stay tuned for part 2, where we discuss some of our favorite family classics.
Posted on April 30, 2020 at 5:39 pm
Many thanks to the charming, delightful, and very knowledgeable Jen Johan for inviting me on her podcast to talk about movies. Jen wrote: It was such an honor to speak with the kind, wise, quick witted, and talented Nell Minow and we clicked so quickly that this half hour flew right by. I agreed with …
