Category: Movies at Home

AHFW’s Top 10 Tom Hanks Performances

Jeff Mitchell

On July 9, Tom Hanks turns 64 years young!  Happy Birthday, Mr. Hanks! Tom arrived on the small screen at 24 with “Bosom Buddies” (1980-1982), an ABC-TV light comedy where two guys (Hanks and Peter Scolari) dress up like women to live in an affordable apartment.  Think of “Some Like it Hot” (1959), and Donna Dixon plays the Marilyn Monroe-like character. Well, who could have predicted Hanks’ film trajectory.  Forty years later, he garnered two Best Actor Oscars and has starred in countless thought-provoking and blockbuster films.  He’s simply one…

Celebrate World Chocolate Day with a double feature

Jeff Mitchell

Hey, July 7 is World Chocolate Day!  There’s a World Chocolate Day?  Yes, for chocoholics all over the planet, this is your time.  If you have a couple hours or perhaps four, why not dine on chocolate while watching a movie or two.  AHFW suggests the Golden Globe-nominated “Like Water for Chocolate” (1992) and the five-time Oscar-nominated “Chocolat” (2000)! “Like Water for Chocolate” – Tita (Lumi Cavazos) is unlucky in love, primarily because she’s relegated to a life without it.  She, however, discovers that her emotions are placed into her…

Celebrate Kurtwood Smith’s birthday with ‘Robocop’

Jeff Mitchell

Kurtwood Smith turns 77 on July 3!  Happy Birthday, Mr. Smith!  Now, his name may not ring a bell right away, but if someone mentioned Red from “That ‘70s Show” or Clarence Boddicker from the original “Robocop” (1987), it might set off a department store fire alarm, with everyone exiting safely, of course. Since AHFW is a movie site, July 3 is definitely a day to celebrate “Robocop”.  Director Paul Verhoeven’s masterful – also surreal – science fiction picture includes a great story, a multitude of violence, a flawed but…