From the Back Porch: In movies, it's always the white hats against the black hats
Movies are a major example of how our society and culture has changed during my life span.
February 20, 2012
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Movies are a major example of how our society and culture has changed during my life span.
Highly Recommended Rebecca (1940) is one of three Alfred Hitchcock movies MGM/Fox has released to Blu-ray, the others being Spellbound (1945) and Notorious (1946).
Highly Recommended The Movie: Here’s a film that threw everyone off a bit. There be dragons? If you want to get technical the phrase is actually “Here Be Dragons,” but it was modified a bit for the film
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) This Blu-ray set brings together three Christmas shows, made for television using stop-action animation: “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (1964), “Frosty the Snowman” (1969) and “Santa Claus is…
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) In this easygoing documentary, the players who compete in the Monopoly world championship are almost quirky enough to qualify for an Errol Morris film. “Under the Boardwalk” doesn’t reach those…
Opening Friday Act of Valor Gone Good Deeds In Darkness Khodorkovsky Roadie Straight Outta Hunters Point Wanderlust
“On Movies” by Steven Rea does not appear this week. Read his blog at www.philly.com/onmovies
There are more shows and movies now featuring characters with Aspergers Syndrome and autism
You can go back to the past to discover the future — and you don’t need a nutty professor’s DeLorean to do it. Instead, there are three television series that will accomplish the deed with exceptional grace and intelligence. And some sex and violence.
Skip It Zoinks! Abby (Aimee Teegarden) , her kinda-sorta boyfriend Travis (Tony Oller) , and a few other clean-scrubbed fake teenager types think they’ve spotted a gh-gh- ghost ! at Old Man Ely’s creepy ol’ house. I mean, they see a couple of silhouettes dancing in an upstairs window, and…well, what else could it be? Ghosts