Posted on April 2, 2016 at 3:06 pm
Mental Floss has a great round-up of early appearances by stars from Ben Affleck to Sarah Jessica Parker, Morgan Freeman, and Michael Keaton as they made their first screen appearances on PBS shows for kids.
Posted on April 2, 2016 at 8:00 am
Author Beverly Cleary turns 100 years old on April 12, 2016! She did not intend to write children’s books. She was a librarian who wanted to write novels for adults. But then a boy in the library asked her “Where are the books about kids like us?” And so that is what she wrote. Children …
Posted on April 1, 2016 at 3:44 pm
Happy April! Coming this month: Biopics about real-life musicians and sometime bandmates Chet Baker and Miles Davis and follow-ups to two beloved ensemble films: “Dazed and Confused” from writer/director Richard Linklater and “Barbershop” from Ice Cube, and comedies about pushy women from Melissa McCarthy and Susan Sarandon. NOTE: Some of these films are opening on …
Posted on April 1, 2016 at 12:00 pm
“The April Fools,” starring Jack Lemmon and Catherine Deneuve, is featured in my book, 101 Must-See Movie Moments, for a scene where Jack Lemmon and Catherine Deneuve (he’s an unhappy executive; she’s his boss’s unhappy trophy wife) meet a happily married older couple played by Myrna Loy and Charles Boyer. Happy April!
Posted on April 1, 2016 at 11:03 am
“Finding Dory” writer/director Andrew Staunton says that we’ve been missing the ultimate Pixar secret hiding in every one of their movies.
