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Games We’ve Been Playing

Spring is here! Between the (dreaded) time change (seriously: enough with ‘daylight savings’ time already!), the days steadily getting longer, and the weather becoming surprisingly pleasant, we, the Team at The Film Rewind, have admittingly gotten a little distracted…

Some Like it Hot

Some Like it Hot (1959) undoubtedly has one of the best punchlines in cinema history. Even with the lore that remains surrounding this film’s troubled production, and the onset clashes between director Billy Wilder and actress Marilyn Monroe, what shines through and remains timeless is the comedy of this film…

Viewing Recommendations for Black History Month

Here, in the middle of February, we are celebrating Black History Month. Given the summer that we just witnessed and the affirmation that racism, unfortunately, remains alive and thriving in the United States, it is imperative that we aim to educate ourselves as much as possible on matters of black history as well as confronting the problems of the present…

What Sarah’s Watching

It has been a while since I checked in and mentioned what I have currently been watching. Even with 2020 in our rearview, there has been a serious lack of ‘new’ content, so I have found myself mostly turning to older movies…

Die Hard

I never know where I’m going to land with these summer blockbuster blind spots. So far, my favorable viewing of Jaws (dir. Steven Spielberg) was later followed by a decidedly negative reaction to Independence Day 1996, dir. Roland Emmerich). I had a few reasons to go into Die Hard with high-ish hopes…