“This is a *children’s* movie?” That’s the rhetorical question that was going through my head just about the entire time I was watching this much-belated,
Author: julienhoule
I've been a lifelong over-indulger of pop culture, from movies to music to television to books, so I figured I'd start writing about it if only to stay literate.
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
There are few movies that exist beyond criticism, but “The Wizard of Oz” is definitely one of them. From the moment the MGM logo appears
Faerie Tale Theatre: “Beauty and the Beast” (1984)
Originally posted on Pop Culture Thoughts:
Lovingly designed after Jean Cocteau’s 1946’s French masterpiece “La Belle et La Bete,” this episode of Shelley Duvall’s beloved…
But I’m a Cheerleader (1999)
Director Jamie Babbit’s bubbly, incisive satire of gay conversion camps (which are really a form of physical, emotional, psychological and sexual torture) is impressive for
Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
Originally posted on Pop Culture Thoughts:
“Torch Song Trilogy” is the first gay-themed movie I ever saw, and for a scared twelve-year-old boy living in…
A Cry in the Dark (1988)
This is an emotionally challenging and thought-provoking dramatization of the tragic, gruesome death of two-month-old Azaria Chamberlain on a family camping trip at the hands
