Tag: movie at home

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…

‘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,…

Just Because Wednesday, Movies at Home: ‘Kitchen Stories’

Jeff Mitchell

Just Because Wednesday give us a chance to feature our favorite films, because….hey, just because!  This week is an oddball, playful import from Norway, director Bent Hamer’s “Kitchen Stories” (2003).  It’s just after WWII, and Sweden’s Home Research Institute – a technological leader in improving home efficiencies – wishes to understand the kitchen habits of single Norwegian men. Who knows how they tick, right? This pits an elderly hermit named Isak (Joachim Calmeyer) against Folke (Tomas Norstrom), who has been assigned as his observer during a frigid winter in an isolated,…