It’s the last free Friday of summer, and we’re getting nostalgic, not only for the summer that was, but also for all of our Summer of Funner activities and posts from 2011 until now, the whole six years of ’em. As with every summer, we wonder, is this it? Is this our last summer of posting on this […]
This week’s Best Summer Movies of All Time are all about kids’ summers. The first, Kings of Summer, is a fantastic recent film about three older boys who “run away from home” to a fort in the woods for the summer. [Anyone who hasn’t seen it should. Hence, why I’m showing it to the kids […]
Things got a little heavy last week, what with Jaws and In The Heat of the Night. So, this week, we’re showing playful movies with a projector out on the back deck, movies that we could never go a summer without laughing over: Tati’s Jour de Fête and the Marx Brothers’ A Night at the […]
Last Friday, we screened Jaws and In the Heat of the Night as part of our Summer Film Fest. Afterwards, the kids said that both movies were “scary.” So, we got to comparing how these movies chilled us to the bone. Sure, Jaws had its shark and its shark music. But the shots of the crowds […]
You didn’t think we’d run a Family Film Fest dedicated to the Best Summer Movies of All Time without showing the kids Jaws, did you? [Thank goodness they’re finally old enough!] But what the heck would you pair it with? I suppose the easy answer would be Star Wars, or American Graffiti. But we’re going […]
This week’s Best Summer Movies of All Time are all about “brainwashing.” We’ve chosen Farenheit 451 and The Manchurian Candidate. First up is Truffaut’s excellent take on the famous novel in which novels are contraband and wall-screens are all the rage! Next up, and in honour(?) of the recent U.S. National conventions, we’re presenting a noirish […]
This week, the kids have picked their favourite films and what they consider to be the best summer movies of all time. The birthday boy chose The Last Starfighter – his fave movie about a kid from Silver Lake, California who gets “sucked” into a video game. And, the big sister chose The Count of Monte […]
Our Family Film Fest Continues with two “crime” stories, quite different in style – or are they? First up is one of our family’s favourite summer murder mysteries, Hitchcock’s, Rear Window [1954]. Next on the list is a movie which came out in Japan 4 years previous to the Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon [1950]. This film tells the […]
What? Last week wasn’t hot enough for you? You’re in luck! It’s week two of our Summer of Funner Family Film Fest : The Best Summer Movies of All Time. And, this week’s best-ever summer films are Do the Right Thing and 12 Angry Men. Now, if you haven’t seen these movies or if you don’t […]
Our annual Summer of Funner Family Film Fest begins tonight. And, this year’s theme is The Best Summer Movies Of All Time. While we’ll mostly be picking movies with a bit of a “hot summer” aspect, our main focus is to show the kids the best of the best. Of course, not all of the […]
