Posted on July 13, 2014 at 3:13 pm
Summer is a time for travel, and, whether you’re traveling or not, it’s a great time for movies about travel as well. Film Forever has an excellent list of movies about Brits traveling abroad. Here are my favorites.
Posted on July 2, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Summer is a great time to catch up on some classic and even not-so-classic films, the movie version of beach books. The nice folks at Entertainment Weekly have come up with a terrific list of films all children should see before they get to high school. This is a good chance for parents to share some of their own childhood favorites with their children, like “The Princess Bride” and “Babe” and perhaps discover some they missed like “The Red Balloon” and “Duck Soup.” These are the movies that should inspire the scheduling of a monthly family movie night where we re-invent the idea that everyone sits down with a bowl of popcorn and enjoys the same movie at the same time in the same room.
And for couples, Esquire has helpfully put together a list of romantic comedies that men will enjoy. No Katherine Heigl, Jennifer Aniston, or Adam Sandler in the bunch, and some very well-chosen black and white classics like “Trouble in Paradise” and “Miracle of Morgan’s Creek.”
In case you’ve been waiting for some suggestions from perennial polymath James Franco, Vibe has published his list of some favorites. I was especially glad to see “Dogtown and Z-Boys,” one of my favorite documentaries, about a group of kids who transformed skateboarding and helped invent the idea of extreme sports.
Posted on June 11, 2014 at 8:00 am
A strophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, star of this week’s DVD/Blu-Ray Pick of the Week, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
I like big-budget science fiction films. My list, with two exceptions, bears this out. I want science fiction films to stretch the talent and imagination of visual effects experts. And the film above all else should create a vision of the future we either know that we don’t want, or know that we do.
I was glad to see the original 1951 version of The Day the Earth Stood Still
Posted on December 17, 2013 at 3:55 pm
Jim Emerson has put together an excellent list of movies everyone should see. What’s your score?
And if you get a good score on that one, take a look at the list from the Alamo Drafthouse and this one from Time. Happy watching!
Posted on July 28, 2013 at 3:46 pm
Director Spike Lee has assembled a list of movies that he says all aspiring filmmakers should see. It’s a list everyone should look at, filled with canon classics like “Singin’ in the Rain,” “Dr. Strangelove,” “Hoop Dreams,” and “Dog Day Afternoon,” but also including some lesser-known and excellent choices: “Kung Fu Hustle,” “Dead End,” “Fat City,” and “Killer of Sheep.”
