Kid’s Movies for Adults

Most of us think of kids movies as being mind-numbing 85-90 minute films with juvenile story lines and simplistic morals. While this is true of the vast majority of films aimed at children, there are exceptions to the rule; often times the message actually is more poignant to a mature audience. In the last few [...]

The Western Genre and Its Shining Star

By the 1940s, the American film industry had internalized a crucial part of our nation’s history – the settlement of the Wild West – turned it into a familiar movie genre. The tropes of westerns are familiar to us all by now. There were shootouts at the OK Corral, duels in the midday sun and [...]