Forget ‘Meatballs’ or ‘Wet Hot American Summer.’ Everyone’s favorite summer camp movie seems to be ‘The Parent Trap,’ where Hayley Mills goes to camp and instead of finding mosquitoes and poison ivy finds the identical twin sister she never knew she had. Together, they scheme to reunite their divorced parents by switching places after camp.
Released 50 years ago this week (on June 21, 1961), the live-action Disney film has remained… Continue reading This Week in Movies: Twin Terrors, Car Toons and School Belles
There’s no statute of limitations on education, otherwise disruptive (and much-older-than-the-norm) co-eds the Marx Brothers, Rodney Dangerfield, and rappers Method Man and Redman would never have been let onto campus.
As middle-aged college student Larry Crowne, 54-year-old Tom Hanks isn’t hitting the books just for laughs, but for the life lessons, something we students of inspirational films have already learned from Rudy (Sean Astin), Rita (‘Harry Potter’s… Continue reading The Oldest Students in Movies: Going 'Back to School' When You're Older Than the Professor
Prepare to say farewell to Gleekers like Rachel and Finn next spring. Glee creator Ryan Murphy says that the original cast of FOX’s award-winning musical-comedy smash will graduate from McKinley High at the end of the show’s third season.Sob! Pass … Continue reading Original “Glee” Cast Graduating Next Season
