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Category: movie

  • Back to the Past

    Netflix has the movie Back to the Future playing for the last few days of September, and I watched it last night. It originally came out in the Eighties when I was in third grade.  It was a big deal, everyone was talking about it.  Back then, it was a straight forward adventure story of…

  • All the World that We Cannot See.

    One of the series on Netflix right now, which I highly recommend, is All the Light we Cannot See. It is about a blind woman during the time of the German occupation of France. It reminded me of a woman that I knew growing up. Our neighbor Debbie was blind and lived by herself with…

  • Tough Times & Choices

    The movie that I ended up seeing back-to-back with Oppenheimer, was not the Barbie movie, but the 1975 film The Hiding Place. If you aren’t familiar, the story is about a Dutch watchmaker and her family that hide Jews during the German occupation. (There are some free streaming services that have it.) Both films are…

  • Wizard of the Ring

    I just watch the 1925 classic Wizard of Oz with my children. I was struck by many scenes in the movie seem to be prototypes for the Lord of the Rings saga. To begin with, the concept of someone leaving their quaint home to go on a big adventure is similar. Obviously, both stories have…