Archive for the ‘Movies’ Category

Jan 25

Gran Torino: a World Magazine review

Posted at 9:36 pm in Culture & Movies

With three young kids, my husband and I don’t get a lot of opportunity to go out and watch movies in a theater anymore. I think last year we saw two of them, one in November and the other in December. When we get the chance to do the dinner and a movie thing, we [...]

Jan 05

Revolutionary Road

Posted at 7:53 pm in Culture & Movies & Society

Why does Hollywood continue to make movies that are portray American life so negatively? I ask that after seeing the trailer for a new movie Revolutionary Road. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as a 1950’s married couple Frank and April Wheeler, who move to the Connecticut suburbs from New York City. Soon, they [...]