Renaissance 2.0
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…
Even though the song is about 25 years old it fits so well in today’s internet age. With all of the friends we make online these days on all of the social networks this song kind of says it all. Even if most of us never meet in person, somehow we’re all linked together in…
Green Card (1990) is a smart, touching love story. Andie MacDowell and Gérard Depardieu were perfect as the mismatched couple thrown together by fate and destiny. Both characters had their reasons for putting up with the other but in the end they discovered much to their horror that they had fallen for them. The mark…
I love it when there’s a magical moment in a movie that you didn’t expect. One that comes out of nowhere like the following scene from “Forces of Nature” starring Sandra Bullock and Ben Afleck. The story itself is a classic case of a man experiencing a severe case of cold feet before his impeding…
Over 20 years ago, Dr. McDreamy (Patrick Dempsey) from Grey’s Anatomy starred in an underrated coming of age movie called “Can’t Buy Me Love” (1987). Amanda Peterson co-starred as the object of his affection. It was the 80s equivalent of Beauty and the Geek as he tries to get popular by paying her to pretend…
Sometimes you hear a song from a movie and you never forget it, even if the movie isn’t that great. That’s the case with “The World Ain’t Slowing Down” by Paul Ellis which was used in a key scene in “Me, Myself and Irene” starring Jim Carrey. While the movie isn’t that great, it did…
