Category: movies
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Favorite Holiday Movies

updated 12/5/24 Thanksgiving is over; it’s time to focus on the next big holiday, Christmas. So take out the decorations, cue your holiday playlist, and watch your favorite holiday movies. I have organized some of my favorites (as well as popular picks) into categories: the classics, rom-coms, action-packed, and Christmas for kids (and those who…
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Halloween Movies

10/28/22 (updated 2025) It’s Halloween weekend! I hope you finished your prep and your costume and home are ready for the weekend. This weekend is a great time to watch some Halloween movies. When planning this post, I asked some friends about their favorite scary/horror movies. To my surprise, some said they don’t watch scary…
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Documentaries

8/12/22 What is a Documentary? A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to “document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record“.[1]Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of “a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception [that remains] a practice without clear boundaries”.[2] from Wikipedia. I wasn’t always interested in watching documentaries.…
