Dancing the Times Away

We have been taught from a very young age that we should always try to achieve our highest goals in our life, but that is not easy to do most of the time. In the 1983 iconic film Flashdance we see Alex (played by Jennifer Beals) taking every step she is capable to be able…

Shining Through Time

This week I chose to watch The Shining, for most of my life Steven King has been one of my favorite authors and that has not changed. There have been many novels written by Steven King that have since been made into movies, and one that I have always been interested in watching was The…

Social Influences

A Woman Under the Influence premiered in 1974, and is a strong telling of the way that women were treating in that day and age. this movie tells us a detailed story of a wife and mother that is seemingly crazy. Mabel spends her days taking care of her 3 children, trying equally to be their…

The 400 Blows- Future or Past?

  In this coming of age film by Francois Truffaut a new meaning of the phrase “it takes a village” is displayed as we follow a 12 year old boy whom first got placed with a wet nurse only to be given to his grandmother after the family ran out of money to pay the…

The Day IT All Began

  I vividly remember being caught off guard by the keys of a piano being played while walking in front of my TV, I was 6 and I had not ever been drawn into a movie based off of the sound track before that time. I couldn’t believe that such pretty music was being played…