Welcome back to a series of blog posts exploring the date-ability of Disney's princesses. This week we come to Ariel, also known as The Little Mermaid. This is one of my favorites and is the film that is responsible for beginning the Disney Renaissance, which continued through 1999 with Tarzan and Fantasia 2000. This is … Continue reading A Dater’s Guide to Disney Princesses: Ariel
Movies
AFI #52 – Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver 1976 Directed by Martin Scorsese Netflix says... Martin Scorsese crafts a violently prophetic, gripping vision of urban decay and insanity in which mentally unstable Vietnam vet Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) drives a cab through the sleaziest streets of pregentrified New York City and befriends a child hooker (Jodie Foster). The groundbreaking film … Continue reading AFI #52 – Taxi Driver
Six Fictional Presidents I Would Rather See Win This Year’s Election
Look, I generally make it a point to avoid talking about politics on my blog. But I can confidently say that I am struggling with this year's presidential election. For reasons which are my own, I have a very difficult time supporting either of the major party candidates. For anyone who knows me even a … Continue reading Six Fictional Presidents I Would Rather See Win This Year’s Election
AFI #53 – The Deer Hunter
The Dear Hunter 1978 Directed by Michael Cimino Netflix says... In this Oscar-winning epic from director Michael Cimino, a group of working-class friends decides to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos--not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven (John Savage) married his pregnant girlfriend--and … Continue reading AFI #53 – The Deer Hunter
AFI #54 – MASH
MASH 1970 Directed by Robert Altman Netflix says... Director Robert Altman's thinly veiled Vietnam War satire is indicative of when the spirit of the 1970s went mainstream, with Elliot Gould, Donald Sutherland and Tom Skerritt as Army doctors fighting military insanity and healing wounded soldiers during the Korean War. Featuring an Oscar-winning score and standout … Continue reading AFI #54 – MASH
AFI #55 – North by Northwest
North by Northwest 1959 Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Netflix says... What if everyone around you was suddenly convinced that you were a spy? This classic from master director Alfred Hitchcock stars Cary Grant as an advertising executive who looks a little too much like someone else and is forced to go on the lam (helped … Continue reading AFI #55 – North by Northwest
A Dater’s Guide to Disney Princesses: Cinderella
Another tragic story of a poor little rich girl. Raised in an aristocratic home, she lost her mother at a young age. Dad felt that she needed a mother figure in her life, so he remarried and brought a couple stepsisters into the mix as well. I've got to ask, where did her father meet … Continue reading A Dater’s Guide to Disney Princesses: Cinderella
AFI #56 – Jaws
Jaws 1975 Directed by Steven Spielberg Netflix says... Director Steven Spielberg virtually invented the summer blockbuster with this white-knuckle adaptation of Peter Benchley's novel about an insatiable great white shark that terrorizes the townspeople of fictional Amity Island. John Williams's legendary score punctuates the tension as the police chief (Roy Scheider), an oceanographer (Richard Dreyfuss) … Continue reading AFI #56 – Jaws
A Dater’s Guide to Disney Princesses: Snow White
Everyone knows who Snow White is, right? I mean, if you haven't seen the Disney classic, there's a good chance you saw one of the two movies that told her story a few years back: Snow White and the Huntsman and Mirror, Mirror. And then there's the current TV show Once Upon a Time, which … Continue reading A Dater’s Guide to Disney Princesses: Snow White
AFI #57 – Rocky
Rocky 1976 Directed by John G. Avildsen Netflix says... When world heavyweight boxing champ Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) wants to give an unknown fighter a shot at the title as a publicity stunt, his handlers pick palooka Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), an uneducated collector for a Philadelphia loan shark. Gritty, grim and epic, this crowd-pleasing … Continue reading AFI #57 – Rocky
The Confusing Middle 