Tag: Cinema Sugar
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How ‘Hairspray’ and ‘Once’ made me love musicals
To cap off Musicals Month at Cinema Sugar, I wrote about seeing Once and Hairspray in the summer of 2007 and how they transformed my rather reductive view of musicals as cheesy, frivolous entertainment: Seeing these movies individually made big dents in my stony resolve against the allure of musicals, but seeing them within about […]
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My ‘Back to the Future’ bonanza
Well, I finally did it: I finally revealed my decades-old collection of Back to the Future memorabilia. With it being Sci-Fi Month at Cinema Sugar, I thought the timing was right to show-and-tell such items as: I had a blast doing this, so please watch, enjoy, and share:
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The High School Movie Party: That’s L-I-V-I-N
Originally published at Cinema Sugar. Too many unsupervised teenagers at a fancy house. Red Solo cups strewn about. A couple making out. A skater kid sliding down the stairs into a tower of beer cans. Someone throwing up at just the wrong moment. Welcome to a high-school movie house party. Despite seeing this kind of […]
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A spoonful of Cinema Sugar
I’m very excited to share a new thing I’m part of that’s now live on the internet: Cinema Sugar, a website/newsletter/social media destination for people who love to see, think about, and talk about movies. Our mission statement: We are not interested in celebrity culture. We are not interested in hate-watching, takedowns, or tasteless criticism. […]