Posted on June 15, 2014 at 8:00 am
Happy Father’s Day! Check out Turner Classic Movies’ great line-up of movies about fathers. And here are some of my favorite movie dads. 1. Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) in “To Kill a Mockingbird” The last line of the movie says it all: “He turned out the light and went into Jem’s room. He would be …
Posted on June 14, 2014 at 11:46 am
Francis Scott Key wrote “The Star Spangled Banner” about this flag, now hanging in the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington D.C. Happy Flag Day!
Posted on June 14, 2014 at 11:44 am
Posted on June 14, 2014 at 8:00 am
The folks at Criticwire have a weekly survey of questions for movie critics. This week’s question is especially important. Q: Many of the positive reviews for “The Fault in Our Stars” boil down to either “It’s good for what it is” or “It gets the job done.” But in an essay at Slate that deals in part with …
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Posted on June 13, 2014 at 11:25 pm
This week’s two big national releases are both sequels featuring Jonah Hill. But they have something more important in common: Both reflect a wiser, kinder, more just treatment of GLBT characters. It was only a few years ago that I wrote an article about the disturbing prevalence of gender and sexual orientation “jokes” in movies …
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