There must’ve been something in the water in Hollywood during the 80s and 90s. For a short and glorious period of time, those magic makers and dream weavers who create films were able to achieve something almost unfathomable. They made being a kid even better than it already was. They

I don’t know about you, but I absolutely love coming-of-age movies about rag-tag misfit preteens on an adventure.  Perhaps this is because I, like many others, was a certified street-kid– my childhood pretty much consisted of my neighbors and me playing Home Run Derby in the abandoned lot at the end of

It’s Springtime in San Francisco, which means it’s time to put your phone on silent for a while and step out into our fair city to sing, eat, and play with the wonderful people and programming on offer. Whether in the flesh or on a live stream, the journalists and

The summer movie series is about as ubiquitous in NYC as the chicken bones that mysteriously litter our sidewalks. But! There is only one that is on a ship. And not just any ship, an effing WAR SHIP. How many times can you say you watched E.T. on a retired

In the past few years I’ve been giving people in my family DVDs as gifts.  Whether it be a season of The Wire for Hanukah or a copy of The Goonies for a birthday, DVDs have seemed to be a pretty solid bet (especially since I’m not crafty enough to

The Goonies is probably my favorite movie of all time.  It’s got everything: action, adventure, romance, pirates and that terrifying old lady.  As I get older my favorite scene changes currently it’s where Mouth (played by Corey Feldman) is giving a tour of the house, in Spanish, to the new