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…
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…
In case any of you were expecting anything different, 2021 is looking to be merely '2020: The Sequel.' With almost a full calendar year of pandemic life behind us, and an uncertain future still ahead of us, it's difficult to commit ourselves to look forward to anything…
2021 is shaping up to be just as intense as 2020 (we weren’t all hoping that some magical spell would be broken at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve… right!?!), and if the first couple weeks into the new year have shown us anything…
"Welcome back, everybody." I hope that all of you, whether you celebrated the holidays or not, were able to have a safe and healthy time over the past few weeks. One of the highlights of my holiday was receiving a ton of Bob Ross painting supplies, so that I can begin pushing trees out of my brush and scraping out mountains along with him as I watch his relaxing and instructional painting series, The Joy of Painting…
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…
Christmas might look a little different this year, but some things never change. Secretly, we think that cats love this time of year…
The holidays might look a little different this year, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t adapt your traditions to fit with the times. One of my biggest holiday traditions was going to the movies on Christmas Eve…
“The most wonderful time of the year,” that perennial period between Halloween and New Year’s when the world seems to go just a little crazy. Yes, you read that right, the world goes crazy…
For someone who detests capitalism as much as I do, old commercials hold an inordinately dear place in my heart….
It's officially that most wonderful time of the year! Though we at The Film Rewind have been celebrating the holidays for a good while, the holiday season is now in full force! Now is the time to bake some holiday treats, turn up the festive music, and watch your favorite holiday specials…
It's been hotly debated for as long as the earth has turned: Is The Nightmare Before Christmas a Halloween or Christmas movie?…
We know that 2020 is shaping up to be one strange year that has drastically altered most everyone’s holiday plans… So, we, the team here at The Film Rewind…
There are few physical possessions that I cherish more than my VHS collection…
What a crazy rollercoaster November 2020 has turned into… Given the current state of things (what with the recent spike in COVID-19 cases, and ‘edge-of-your-seat’ results of the 2020 US Presidential Election), and the fact that most everyone is emotionally and mentally exhausted right about now, we have decided that we need a celebratory film to help bridge the gap between Halloween and Christmas…
Here we are, with 9 months of pandemic life under our belts... It's been a strange, stressful, and tragic time, not to mention one where it's been extremely difficult to find any bright sides…
Ever since my first viewing of Modern Times (1936), I have been enraptured by Charlie Chaplin, and with each film that I experience in his filmography, my love grows. From Shoulder Arms (1918) to City Lights (1931), his infusion of comedy and pathos has never failed to both charm and move me. In his Little Tramp character, we see humanity peeking through a veil of suffering…
I didn’t know what to expect going into watching The Great Dictator (1940). Admittingly, this was one Charlie Chaplin film that I have somehow managed to bypass throughout my studies and viewing, having watched certain clips here and there…
