Running from 1964 to 1967, NBC’s Flipper?followed the exploits of the?bottlenose dolphin. A pet to is Chief Warden Porter Ricks (Brian Kelly) of the Coral Key Park and Marine Preserve in Florida, the smartest dolphin ever often aided Ricks and his two sons, Sandy and Bud (Luke Halpin and Tommy Norden). Like?Lassie, but with water,?Flipper?shows…
I?d argue there are two camps of people in the world: those who fish, and those who don?t fish. For those who don?t fish, I imagine looks odd: someone standing by the river or ocean side in all manners of weather, quietly casting out a line, waiting, reeling, recasting, more waiting, more reeling, more…
I?m a sucker for musicals. There is reasonable room for debate as to whether I owe this particular affinity to my mother after making me watch a regular rotation of Hello Dolly, Calamity Jane, Oklahoma!, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and countless others; or my father, a life-long drummer with a soft spot for any…
Whether you are a fan of the French original, the 1990s animated version, or the Dan Stevens/Emma Watson live-action remake,?Beauty & the Beast?has a narrative that reminds us of the cost of inhospitality. As the story begins, we find a cold-hearted prince refusing sanctuary to an old beggar woman (or so he thinks) as she…
Caution:? This documentary review contains spoilers.? (Yes, you read that correctly.) Directed by Sarah Polley, The Stories We Tell, in some ways, is the rarest of documentaries: that where the filmmaker turns the camera on themselves.? In a revealing examination of her family history, Polley explores the period in her life when she discovered that…
Tom and Jerry are fiendishly mischievous frenemies who have tormenting each other and entertaining audiences for years. They’ve done their own thing, and entered the worlds of such notables like?Sherlock Holmes,?The Wizard of Oz, and others. Now, forty-five years after Roald Dahl’s book,?Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, was adapted into Gene Wilder’s?Willy Wonka & the…
Have you ever been invited to a party? Were you made to feel special or were you one of the substitutes? Were you invited to something you wanted to go to or were you begrudgingly attending to keep a friend/spouse/parent/grandparent happy? In the Disney’s adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s story, we find a young woman named…
In the 1950s, a group of young Mexican-American men joined forces to make doo-wop music in hopes of making it big in the music business. ?The Dinos?, including Abraham Quintanilla Jr., experienced racism from venue owners and patrons alike. Owners would send the band away when they found out the members were of Mexican descent.?…
The Godfather?is forty-five years old. Let that soak in for a minute. Now, Paramount Pictures has re-released?The Godfather?trilogy on Blu-ray for fans who want to collect them in high definition. But Francis Ford Coppola’s film has defined mob movies since then, and even occasionally influenced the mob (apparently). For everyone else, the admiration for the…
Created by H. Rider Haggard in 1885, Allan Quatermain was the protagonist of thirteen adventure novels, spanning fifty years of an English-born hunter/adventurer who found an affinity with the people of Africa in their affairs dealing with the English, the Germans, and others. But in the adaptation of?King Solomon’s Mines, Quatermain is slicker, funnier, more…
