I usually describe our Film at 11 podcast as my effort to introduce my children to famous movies they haven’t seen. I’m not sure this week’s choice qualifies as famous. Coming from Re-Animator director Stuart Gordon, 1990’s Robot Jox is a straight-up B-movie cheesefest, the kind most fans first discovered back in the day when… Read More Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 27 | Robot Jox (1990)
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)
Although I was just about the perfect age to most appreciate it, I didn’t get to see The Naked Gun in a theater with an audience. I had to wait for a VHS rental from Blockbuster the following year, at which time my teenage self became obsessed with the movie and watched it over and… Read More Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 23 | The Naked Gun (1988)
Under normal circumstances, the way the Film at 11 podcast is supposed to work is that I, as a parent, will choose a movie I want one of my children to see, and then force him to watch it and talk about it afterward. Whether the kid initially has any interest in that movie is… Read More Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 22 | Pacific Rim (2013)
How has it taken this long to introduce either of my sons to Indiana Jones? I’m honestly not sure. That’s just something we never found the right time for, I guess. This week, by special request, my son Joseph asked if we could watch the original Raiders of the Lost Ark for our latest Film… Read More Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 21 | Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Way back in Episode 4 of the Film at 11 podcast, I subjected my son Thomas to 1978’s Superman: The Movie. He wasn’t a fan of that one. I suspect his opinion of that left him extremely skeptical when I told him we’d be watching Batman this week. He seemed decidedly less-than-enthused when the movie… Read More Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 20 | Batman (1989)
To the best of my recollection, I may have last watched The NeverEnding Story when I was about 11-years-old myself. I recall liking it at the time, but honestly, hadn’t given it much thought in the following four decades. At the prompting of a family friend, I sat down with my own 11-year-old son to… Read More Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 19 | The NeverEnding Story (1984)
Introducing a young movie fan to his first James Bond film is something of a rite of passage between fathers and sons. However, as the franchise has expanded across decades and multiple actors, and has changed in many significant ways over time, where does one begin? Which movie should be a kid’s first experience with… Read More Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 18 | Goldfinger (1964)
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