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Like David O. Selznik after Gone With the Wind, producer Samuel Goldwyn tried his hardest to recapture the success of his most acclaimed film, 1946’s The Best Years Of Our Lives, and he never quite got there, much as he would have liked to. However, his 1952 movie,
I enjoy ballet, although I was never very good at it (tap was my thing), but I think it’s beautiful and fascinating. I always wonder how dancers feel the first time they go en pointe. Ergo, movies about dancers and the dancing world are intriguing to me, such as the 2021 film,
Hello, friends and former strangers. Whoever you are, it’s nice to see you. For those who may not know me, I’m Rebecca Deniston, a wife and mother living in Placer County, California. For the last six years I’ve been blogging on my site, Taking Up Room
Elvis has not left the building. Baz Luhrmann’s new film is a whirling, vigorous rise and plunge that’s held together by its two leads, the uncannily dead-on Austin Butler as Elvis and an almost unrecognizable Tom Hanks as Colonel Tom Parker. It’s hard to be completely…

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Who hasn’t seen the Father of the Bride movies? Spencer Tracy and Steve Martin both played loving, nervous Stanley Banks, who has to come to terms with…
This was one of those times I decided to review a movie for the heck of it. It was there in my Amazon recs. It looked like fun. But we’ll get to that…
The final three episodes of The Staircase fizzle more than end. Michael Peterson is still in prison, but he has a chance to redeem himself via an Alford…
Stranger Things is back. And all the people said, “Finally!” If anyone hasn’t seen Season Three or doesn’t want spoilers of any kind (and I can’t blame…
Everyone knows Marilyn Monroe is a beautiful enigma. Sixty years after her death, she’s still a moving target, keeping us guessing about what she was…
Few decades did sci-fi like the 1950s, and while America seemed to have a corner on it, other countries got in on the act as well, such as the 1954…
I’ve grown up on Top Gun. My dad is a single engine pilot and all my life I’ve been around planes and been told about planes. It’s our thing. On…
It’s staggering how many movies have been based on self-help books, and 2012’s What To Expect When You’re Expecting is definitely one of the most…
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