Year: 2020

Celebrate International Museum Day with ‘Bringing Up Baby’

Jeff Mitchell

Happy International Museum Day!  We don’t know if a museum is opening near you, but May 18 is the day, come rain or shine, pandemic or no pandemic.  If you want or need to stay indoors, AHFW might have just the right suggestion from yestercentury, 1938’s “Bringing Up Baby”, where Cary Grant plays a paleontologist at the Stuyvesant Museum of Natural History.  The one and only Katharine Hepburn is his co-star, and director Howard Hawks’ screwball romantic comedy is a hilarious treasure that features two Hollywood legends at the peak…

‘Alice’ is an enlightening, escort tale set in the City of Light

Jeff Mitchell

“Alice”  – “The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.” – Unknown Author Alice and Francois Ferrand (Emilie Piponnier and Martin Swabey) built a beautiful life together.  They enjoy a happy marriage, adore their healthy, young son Jules (Jules Milo Levy Mackerras) and live in a lovely, bright apartment in the heart of Paris, one of the world’s landmark cities.  Writer/director Josephine Mackerras efficiently establishes these definite certainties within her film’s first few minutes, including Alice declaring to Francois – with a smile and some…

‘Scoob!’: a brand-new Scooby-Doo adventure is available to stream

Jeff Mitchell

“Scoob!” – Scooby-Doo has been entertaining American children for 51 years (wait…51 years??) with several incarnations of his mystery-solving animated television show. Well, everyone’s favorite ghost-chasing canine is back with a 90-minute movie that you can stream right now.   “Scoob!” had its Twitter Kickoff Watch Party on Fri., May 15, but if you missed it, no worries.  The movie itself is available on platforms everywhere. Need a film to entertain the kids?  An adventure with Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Daphne, Velma, and Fred might be the right call, as Will Forte, Mark Wahlberg,…