Movies

Our local paper runs a column on history, and every morning, I like to review the notable events that happened on that date. Yesterday, I read that on April 21, 1977, Annie opened on Broadway, and its run totaled 2,377 performances. This started me on a path of Annie reminiscence, and it grew into this post. Annie in Poetry Many people…

When I decided to write a post about how 1950s domestic life was portrayed in film, I pictured a plethora of movies that depicted families with mom in the kitchen and dad going off to work every day. After all, women, who had entered the workforce when men went off to World War II, were…

This post originally appeared on the DVD Netflix blog “Inside the Envelope.” That company folded in 2023, and the blog was shut down, but you might find some good stuff here. In the post-war era of the 1950s, the American man had reclaimed his place in both the household and the workplace. Although there was…

This post originally appeared on the DVD Netflix blog “Inside the Envelope.” That company folded in 2023, and the blog was shut down, but you might find some good stuff here. Countless movies have been made about World War II since the war ended in 1945. As the years marched on, World War II history…

This post originally appeared on the DVD Netflix blog “Inside the Envelope.” That company folded in 2023, and the blog was shut down, but you might find some good stuff here. Crowds of ration-weary movie goers found refuge in darkened movie houses during the 1940s. Many men were off at war and many weren’t ever…

As part of Cinemark’s 2019 Oscar Movie Week, we saw Green Book, starring Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, and Linda Cardellini. To say it is the best movie I’ve seen in a long time seems trite, but it’s true. Some folks say that the relationship between the real-life African-American musician, Donald (Doc) Shirley, and his Italian-American driver, Tony (Lip) Vallelonga, was strictly business, but there’s…

This post originally appeared on the DVD Netflix blog “Inside the Envelope.” That company folded in 2023, and the blog was shut down, but you might find some good stuff here. The Great Recession, which started in 2008, lasted about a year in the United States. For countries like Greece and Italy, recovery took much…

This post originally appeared on the DVD Netflix blog “Inside the Envelope.” That company folded in 2023, and the blog was shut down, but you might find some good stuff here. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences did not make a distinction in the voting process between sound and silent in 1930, but…

This post originally appeared on the DVD Netflix blog “Inside the Envelope.” That company folded in 2023, and the blog was shut down, but you might find some good stuff here. DVD Netflix compiled a list of the top-rented discs of 2018 by category. It’s notable that the nature of these five offerings, range all…

This post originally appeared on the DVD Netflix blog “Inside the Envelope.” That company folded in 2023, and the blog was shut down, but you might find some good stuff here. Identifying notable Academy Award winners from the 1920s is a very easy task. That’s because the first Academy Awards ceremony was held at the…