This week’s new Blu-ray and DVD offerings include everything from a pair of Disney favorites (one new, one classic), to classics from the Warner Archives, recent theatrical offerings, cult hits, and so much more. Movie lovers, have we got a…
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Over 50 years since it originally hit theaters and the hills are still alive with The Sound of Music! Arguably the most popular film musical ever, the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic stars Julie Andrews as a novitiate who becomes governess…
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It’s Create-A-Caption time again, and this week we are traveling back to 1965 to focus on The Sound of Music. The family favorite musical from Rodgers and Hammerstein that has enchanted generations of moviegoers for more than five decades features…
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In the 1967 Oscar-winning favorite Thoroughly Modern Millie, the “Roaring Twenties” live on in a musical comedy of innocent girls, wild flappers, romance, and crime. Julie Andrews stars as Millie, whose plan to get a job with─and then marry─a wealthy…
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The Walt Disney Company today are pros when it comes to knowing how to promote their latest films but, back in the day, they had the marketing game pretty well in hand, too. In 1964, without the aid of the…
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This week’s Create-A-Caption is nothing short of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, because this one is about Mary Poppins! P.L. Travers’ magical caretaker came to the big screen via Walt Disney Pictures in 1964 and has been charming audiences ever since. We’ve taken a…
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One of the most popular film musicals of all time, the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic The Sound of Music stars Julie Andrews as a novitiate who becomes governess to a large family in 1930s Austria and charms both her charges…
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For some inexplicable reason, today, I decided to find the name of, or the movie it came from, of a song that has haunted me for several years. I knew some of the words, most of the melody, and that…
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With fine performances from Julie Andrews and James Garner and a Paddy Chayefsky script, 1964’s The Americanization of Emily blended WWII romance with an attack on war movie conventions. Guest blogger Kristen Lopez offers her take on this still-controversial MGM release.
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In today’s guest post, Melanie Simone shares her thoughts on the 1964 Disney classic Mary Poppins. Does she find it to be Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious? Read on to find out for yourself!
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