Best Picture: #63Original Release Date: November 21, 1990Rating: PG-13Runtime: 3 hours, 1 minuteDirector: Kevin Costner Quick Impressions:My sister got trapped in Alaska last week. She and her fiancé took a vacation, then their flight home got cancelled, leaving them stuck in the airport for two days living their own personal …
Rating: PG-13Runtime: 2 hours, 7 minutesDirector: Jaume Collet-Serra Quick Impressions:We were in Disneyland the Saturday Jungle Cruise premiered there. As we entered the park, cast members gave us each a little gift bag containing a souvenir button and some brownie M&Ms. (I don’t know what I’ve done with the buttons. …
Best Picture: #62Original Release Date: December 13, 1989Rating: PGRuntime: 1 hour, 39 minutesDirector: Bruce Beresford Quick Impressions:Like Oliver!, the first cinematic obsession of my young childhood, Driving Miss Daisy is a Best Picture winner that people usually bring up so they can complain about how it’s not as good a …
Rating: RRuntime: 1 hour, 54 minutesDirector: Leigh Janiak Quick Impressions:As I began to expect increasingly while I watched these movies, 1666 is the most satisfying chapter of Netflix’s Fear Street trilogy. But (and this is a big “but”), you have to give it a chance (i.e. you have to want …
Best Picture: #61Original Release Date: December 16, 1988Rating: RRuntime: 2 hours, 13 minutesDirector: Berry Levinson Quick Impressions:“I love this movie,” I told my daughter in excitement as we prepared to watch Rain Man. Then I realized I had only seen it once (as a new release on home video when …
Rating: PG-13Runtime: 2 hours, 13 minutesDirector: Cate Shortland Quick Impressions:We watched Black Widow on Sunday, and I was hoping to write about it Monday. Then we got our minivan serviced to make sure it was safe to drive on a road trip through the desert and the mountains. The mechanic …
Rating: RRuntime: 1 hour, 49 minutesDirector: Leigh Janiak Quick Impressions:We almost watched this movie on Friday night. The thing is, our dear friends, the godparents of both our younger children, cleverly lured us to their lake house on Saturday morning. (I put it that way because when I replied with …
Best Picture: #60Original Release Date: April 15, 1988Rating: PG-13Runtime: 2 hours, 43 minutesDirector: Bernardo Bertolucci Quick Impressions:The Last Emperor is bewildering to experience. I know very little Chinese history, and Emperor Pu Yi’s life unfolds in such a dramatic, startling way that my daughter and I could not help frequently …
Rating: RRuntime: 1 hour, 47 minutesDirector: Leigh Janiak Quick Impressions:We considered watching Luca this weekend, but my son refused to watch any movie and pointedly stormed upstairs to play in his room. So instead we watched Fear Street Part I: 1994 because that’s the movie my daughter preferred. As soon …
Best Picture: #59Original Release Date: February 6, 1987Rating: RRuntime: 2 hoursDirector: Oliver Stone Quick Impressions:Just because I watched Platoon with my twelve-year-old does not mean you should watch Platoon with your twelve-year-old. This is a disturbing film that might traumatize children (or even adults). I’ll talk more about that later, …
