Queen Latifah and LL Cool J light up the screen in this movie about a misdiagnosed woman who seeks to live out her “last” days in Europe at a posh hotel, living it up. The supporting cast of Gerard Depardieu, Timothy Hutton, Alicia Witt and Giancarlo Esposito make this movie a great holiday flick.
The Lucasfilm president was handpicked by George Lucas to take over his company and the franchise. She’s aware that all her film mentors have been men; “I need to bring other women along,” she says.
Source: Kathleen Kennedy: From Standing In Line For ‘Star Wars’ To Producing It Herself : NPR
Holiday movies are like friends you see once a year. Of course you don’t have to see them just during the holidays but they are special that way. There are great characters and places that make the season more colorful.
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And there are more. Without these movies its just not the same.
What are some of your favorite holiday movies?
This movie is always the first Christmas movie we watch each year. It isn’t the holidays without this flick. Chevy Chase is epic in this classic family movie. Johnny Galecki from “The Big Bang Theory” plays Rusty in this seasonal favorite.
This is a great flick that shows us what goes on inside us all and in particular Riley a young girl who has her life turned upside down due to a family move. Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Mindy Kaling, Lewis Black and Phyllis Smith provide voices for this Pixar presentation.
Today is the day that the DeLorean time machine built by Dr. Emmett L. Brown was programmed to travel into the future in the movie “Back To The Future”.
We actually visit this date in the movie “Back To the Future Part II”. The 1980’s vision of the future is very different than the reality we face here in 2015. There are a few things that are close to what the movie predicted. Today is a celebration of this great movie trilogy and how it helped us imagine the future in a different way.
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