movies

Richard Donner passed away yesterday. I realize there are many who won’t recognize his name, but he did a whole lot for fantasy in film, and I wanted to take a minute to appreciate that. When the Christopher Reeve Superman came out in 1978, it was the first time a studio had really thrown money at a superhero film. As we all know (or should know, at any rate), simply throwing money at film isn’t a formula for guaranteed success. (Waterworld, anyone?) It would have been very easy to have this first superhero effort go seriously wrong. Warner Bros. picked

The semester starts Monday! Have I mentioned that? So even though I haven’t done one of these for a while . . . I’m calling in sick for the blog. You’ll have to get by without my scintillating wit today. Instead, here’s my nomination for the funniest movie scene of all time: You think it’s over, but it’s not. That by itself is already pretty funny, but what takes it to the next level is the next gag: Every time I watch those, I end up crying with laughter. Maybe that says more about me than about the scenes .

We’re still working our way through the movie list I made for Daniela, but I just wanted to pause for a minute and say again how happy it’s making me. It took away all the stress of “which movie will we watch”, empowered everyone to be able to decide what they wanted to do on their own, and it’s gotten us watching a really wide array of films. Daniela’s been there for all of them, enthusiastically watching them and then discussing what she liked and didn’t like about them after they’re over. What have we watched so far? Risking some

Here we are in June, and things have long since blended together into one everlasting day. We’ve all done things to try and break it all up a bit. I started the family sprint challenge. Daniela worked her way through all the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies. MC has been reading anything in print in the house. But there comes a time when you have to keep pushing yourself to figure out a way to keep yourself occupied. Daniela had been feeling kind of restless ever since her MCU binge was over. We just got KK Slider to join our Animal