It’s that time again, and this is down to the wire due to an overly busy December, and the fact that I thought the Annual Playlist may be over now that Cher released the ultimate Christmas album to just play over and over again. But this year bounced back, after being pretty brutal on most … Read more
“But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the Sun….” What middle school student hasn’t had their initial introduction to English literature through William Shakespeare’s standard classic Romeo & Juliet? And if they haven’t studied it formally in class, every generation has it’s defining motion picture version or … Read more
When Opray Winfrey named Yann Martel’s Life of Pi to her book club list in 2001, I did not read it (I have many issues with Winfrey and run 180 degrees from most things associated with her). When Ang Lee directed an Academy Award nominated movie adaptation of the book in 2012, I was team … Read more
In one week it’s broken box office records for movie musicals. It’s the entertainment news of the week, the theatrical event of the season, and for the first time ever, it’s not just musical theatre fanatics losing their minds over the decades-long anticipated release of the movie. It’s fans of the MGM classic The Wizard … Read more