In most of our Film at 11 podcasts, I’ve focused on introducing my sons to movies from the 1980s and ’90s, because those were the years when I fell in love with film and was most active going out to the theater. For this week’s Halloween-themed episode, however, I take Joseph back much, much farther,… Read More Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 34 | Frankenstein (1931) & Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
As Halloween approaches, it’s time to start watching scary movies with my kids. Because my sons are both 11, however, I won’t start them with anything too strong, at least not right away. For our Film at 11 podcast this week, Thomas and I sit down with The Monster Squad, director Fred Dekker and writer… Read More Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 33 | The Monster Squad (1987)
Disaster in space seems to be a theme we’re working through in the Film at 11 podcast at the moment, at least in recent episodes with my son Joseph. Moving on from Apollo 13, this week we tackle Ridley Scott’s adaptation of the sci-fi bestseller The Martian, in which Matt Damon plays an astronaut stranded… Read More Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 32 | The Martian (2015)
What happens when you ask an 11-year-old who knows absolutely nothing about Star Trek – who’s never seen a single TV episode, much less any of the movies – to jump directly into Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan? A little confusion is expected, but my son Thomas kept up with the film well… Read More Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 31 | Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
For this week’s edition of the Film at 11 podcast, I not only introduce one of my sons to Apollo 13 as the movie celebrates its 30th anniversary, I also force myself to rewatch and re-evaluate a picture I think I judged unnecessarily harshly in the past. I’ve long found myself out of step with… Read More Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 30 | Apollo 13 (1995)
I think I may have gone too far in our Film at 11 podcast this week. I have, on more than a few occasions already, subjected my son Thomas to movies of dubious artistic merit. He’s usually a good sport about that. After watching Michael Bay’s Armageddon, however, the kid looked downright exhausted by the… Read More Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 29 | Armageddon (1998)
I probably should have timed the release a little better to coincide with the recent Disney+ sequel movie (which we don’t even get around to talking about), but my son Joseph and I tackle the 2003 Lindsay Lohan/Jamie Lee Curtis remake of Freaky Friday in our latest Film at 11 podcast episode. Ostensibly, we use… Read More Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 28 | Freaky Friday (2003)
Despite its PG rating (PG-13 didn’t exist at the time) and 50-year age, Jaws may not be an appropriate movie for an 11-year-old viewer, no matter how smart and otherwise mature he or she may be. That’s a big takeaway I got from this week’s Film at 11 podcast viewing with my son. Perhaps that… Read More Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 26 | Jaws (1975)
Released the following summer, one year after Batman, Warren Beatty’s extravagant production of Dick Tracy was expected to be the next big comic book (technically in this case, comic strip) blockbuster smash hit movie of the year. It might have succeeded at that, if not for one, kind of obvious problem. While every kid in… Read More Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 25 | Dick Tracy (1990)
I saw Ghostbusters in the theater when I was ten-years-old in the summer of 1984. I loved the movie while watching it, but had some scary dreams afterward about the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Yes, of all the ghosts and demons and other monsters in that picture, it was the cuddly-looking product mascot with a… Read More Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 24 | Ghostbusters (1984)
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