Renaissance 2.0
Guilty pleasure time! I LOVE “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days ”! Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson are wonderful together in this fun, funny and touching story. In short, it’s about two people trying to use the other for their own professional gain but something unexpected happens along the way while pretending to…
I’ve grown to love Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory more with time, especially since I’ve become a dad three times over and each child has fallen in love with the movie (along with the recent remake, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). Each time, I’ve fallen in love with this classic movie and story all…
Years later, I still think about Gladiator, the Oscar winning movie starring Russell Crowe who also won the Oscar for his amazing performance. It wasn’t just an action movie, even though there was plenty of that for sure. What stays with me are all of the powerful moments such as the scenes when Maximus walks…
The movie “FEARLESS” (1993) is another one of those films that stays with you forever. Every once in a while I’ll remember a scene from that movie starring Jeff Bridges. It’s another classic directed by Peter Wier who also did Witness, Dead Poet’s Society, Green Card and The Truman Show. It centers around a man…
Everything But the Girl’s “Apron Strings” is the other unforgetable song from the movie “She’s Having a Baby” (1988) that I’ve covered on here before (“This Woman’s Work”). It’s such a beautiful song about a common every day object that takes on monumental meaning. Every little thing changes when you have a baby and it’s…
I was involved in a horrific six-car pile-up yesterday on my way home from work. I’m sharing this amazing movie called “Unbreakable” because that’s how I felt during the shocking experience of being trapped in my car as it got slammed from the rear with great impact, which then hurled my car into the vehicle…
HeartBurn (1986) is a memorable movie directed by the great Mike Nichols. Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson were brilliant. Their characters were based on real life Nora Ephron and her then husband Carl Bernstein who was the famous journalist from Watergate along with his partner Woodward. Nora Ephron was also the screenwriter for this wonderful…
Definitely, Maybe (2008) caught me by surprise. I liked the people that produced it because they were behind some of my favorite movies (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Nottinghill, Love, Actually, etc.) but other then that I didn’t know anyone else involved with the film. Didn’t know the director, the stars and anything. Well, I…
Yeah, I love all things Jane Austen. Her books and even all of the movies based on her classic novels! The best ones being “Sense & Sensibility” and “Pride & Prejudice” (Kiera Knightley version). Emma was wonderful too. I even loved the recent “Becoming Jane Austen” with Anne Hathaway. Here’s a video montage of Jane…
The “Fisher King” (1991) is a special movie to me for some deep, dark personal reasons. I watched the movie at a time when I was a young man who was lost, unemployed and heartbroken. I connected so much to the Jeff Bridges and Robin Williams characters so I guess that explains my deep affection…