Tail Pop

Though we GenXers might look back  on our favorite ’80s films with some chagrin, “Parenthood” (1989) holds up.

The lights came on… Shock. Silence. “Oh man, we’re just working on a schlock low-budget Roger Corman sci-fi,” we thought.

It’s an all-time personal favorite. It was also the last movie I watched with my mom.

By Donna J. Choo I grew up in Hawai‘i, on the island of  O‘ahu, where my moviegoing love began at Queen’s Theater in Kaimuki, and the Waialae and Kailua Drive-ins. …

One of my earliest memories is of my mother taking me into Manhattan from Brooklyn one gloomy morning, on a subway train crossing the East River.

The enduring wisdom of Indiana Jones

Why ‘Sweet Smell’ Succeeded

I grew up in a Long Island suburb  among people about whom a friend once said, “If they can’t eat it or wear it, they don’t want it.”

How a Kid Found the Heart in “Harold And Maude.”

It was the summer of 1974, and for my  sister and me, there was a gross injustice in the world. I could tell you that the injustice involved saving the …