Have you checked out The Cinementals yet? Founded earlier this year by three of our favorite classic film bloggers/prolific Tweeters–Will McKinley, Carley Johnson, and Jill Blake–The Cinementals has quickly become a must-read site for classic movie fanatics. From their insanely in-depth, on-the-ground coverage of April’s TCM Classic Film Festival, to their numerous daily posts featuring…
by Vicky Stringer While I didn’t get to go to the cinema very often as a wee young thing, I do remember exactly what my first-ever cinema viewing was: Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). We were on a day trip somewhere with my cousins; looking at the re-release date of 1983, I…
Christine Clay (Pamela Carme) is a film star on the rise. Her husband, who has apparently been away for several years, accuses her of cheating on him with other men. A fiery confrontation during a heavy storm ends with Christine slapping her husband several times, after which he goes out onto the balcony, overlooking the…
by Anne Swearingen One of the first movies I ever saw–which is still one of my favorites–was on television just the other night: The Great Race (1965) with Tony Curtis. My Dad took me (just me!) to the movie in a big old theater in midtown Memphis. It’s a silly and funny movie, and just…
by Linda Ross Aldy I don’t really recall the first movie I saw. I do remember loading up with our family friends, the Brewers, in their station wagon and going to the drive-in quite a bit when we were younger! But I do not remember a single movie we saw. I remember getting the speaker…
by Leah O’Gwynn Kackley My first movie experience was, believe it or not, Star Wars (1977)! The very first one. Or, as we understand now, actually movie number four. My mom took us to a movie theater, the Capri, that was in the Fondren area near Jackson (by the time I graduated high school, that…
by Georgie Lawrence The first film I remember going to see at the movie theater was a re-release of Pinocchio (1940). My aunts took my cousins and me to go see it, and we were so excited. The one thing I wanted, more than anything, was a bag of popcorn. It smelled so good, and my…
I’ve previously mentioned my all-abiding love for the 1990s cartoon series Animaniacs here on the blog. Produced by Steven Spielberg, the show was more than a mere cartoon–it was a cleverly-constructed show that appealed to both adults and children with a hilarious combination of slapstick-y violence, meta references, and witty send-ups of pop culture icons. This week,…
