Tag: movies
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2026 HOLIDAY RETROSPECTIVE – THE INNOCENTS (1961)
STORYLINE: In Victorian England, the uncle (Sir Michael Redgrave) of orphaned niece Flora (Pamela Franklin) and nephew Miles (Martin Stephens) hires Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr) as governess to raise the children at his estate with total independence and authority. Soon after her arrival, Miss Giddens comes to believe that the spirits of the former governess…
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STREET FIGHTER (2026)
STORYLINE: Street Fighters Ryu and Ken reunite when Chun-Li recruits them for the World Warrior Tournament. As they face a hidden conspiracy, they must confront each other and their past-or face destruction. (IMDb) This spring Mario and the gang returned to the big screen in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. The day had to be…
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MUSK (2026: Documentary)
STORYLINE: A thorough and unvarnished analysis of Elon Musk, a technology billionaire who serves as the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter. (IMDb) Matthew Broderick played a game of wits against artificial intelligence in the motion picture WarGames (1983). In 2010, the creation of Facebook was the topic of the drama The Social…
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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (2026)
STORYLINE: From Focus Features and Working Title comes an irresistible new take on Jane Austen’s iconic Sense and Sensibility: a charming, witty, and deeply relatable story of love and sisterhood starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles. (IMDb) Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio had a romance, at sea, in Titanic (1997). The love affair…
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WHALEFALL (2026)
STORYLINE: Follows a scuba diver who, while looking for his father’s remains, is swallowed by an 80-foot, 60-ton sperm whale and has just one hour to get out before his oxygen runs out. (IMDb) In 1998, Dustin Hoffman and Samuel L. Jackson found terrors at the bottom of the ocean in Sphere. Alligators came…
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YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING (2026)
STORYLINE: Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait becomes a mind-bending three-year journey. (IMDb) In 2004, Fahrenheit 9/11 was the first main stream documentary about a sitting President, to be released in theaters. …
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HOLIDAY RETROSPECTIVE 2026 ~ GREMLINS (1984)
STORYLINE: After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous creatures on a small town. (IMDb) I can’t recall when was the first time I saw Gremlins. A Blockbuster rental sometime in the late…
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ANGEL AND THE BADMAN (2026)
STORYLINE: A wounded outlaw finds unexpected mercy in the care of a rancher’s daughter. The hope of love pulls him toward a different life until the law, and his violent past, close in on his new home. Now he must choose the kind of man he’ll become. (IMDb) Wyatt Earp participated in the…
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HOLIDAY RETROSPECTIVE 2026: THE SHINING (1980)
STORYLINE: A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. At the same time, his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future. (IMDb) As mentioned in my blog for The Nightmare Before Christmas, I want to expand my holiday…
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HOLIDAY RETROSPECTIVE 2026: THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993)
STORYLINE: Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home causes confusion. (IMDb) For the past few years now, I’ve done a series of retrospective blogs, on holiday features. This year, I am starting early, after all Disney gets to start advertising the theme parks…
