I think of my mother in the spring. When the cool rain settles in, warmer than frigid icicle raindrops tap-tap-tapping on our windowpane...

I recently saw an Instagram post about the typical “movie-watching experience” of the different zodiac signs.  Apparently, grounded...

Starting this New Year right. Yes, I was gifted with my first little alien! He has an adorable red scarf and orange ear muffs. Awww. ...

Here's the video from that starry October night with Michael Douglas (aka Jack T. Colton from "Romancing the Stone"). Yes, dreams come...

As 2024 draws to a close, I am, first, supremely surprised at how fast this year flew.  Like a racecar!  Or better yet, that miraculous...

Halloween has passed y'all! And with sweater weather comes warm apple cider, mulling spices on the stove, and that random cozy candle...

Summer is all about looking up at blue skies and midnight stars. As we sit s'more-side during this wonderfully hot, atmospheric time of...

Twenty years have passed. August 2004. Since I descended into that magical world of fog and rain. Not at all what I imagined my first...

Check out my first screenplay analysis article for Flickside! See me dissect the Oscar-winning script of 1976's Network. It was...

News Alert: Antenna TV is at it again. This channel is playing all my favorite shows! Not only did I recently have the pleasure of...

Calling all De Niro, Pacino, Scorsese, and Lumet lovers! Here's my ode to that wonderful New Hollywood decade where directors, cast, and...

It is said that necessity is the mother of invention.  I agree.  Gaping into my kitchen cabinets, then fridge, then freezer, the other...

Once upon a time, there was a castle. In a teeny city next to New York City. Inside, it had beautiful white walls with stone, and...

As Dorothy from the "Wizard of Oz" (1939) once said, “There’s no place like home.” Cue those glittery red shoes. And for travelista...

What an exciting "Flickside YouTube" summer it has been! What was my favorite Flickside video? Alfred Hitchcock of course! Here's the...

Donned in my pastel spring and Sunday best (aka a treasured yellow linen jacket she had gifted me with a decade earlier before her move...

All hail the thoughtfully crafted cookbook "Audrey at Home: Memories of My Mother's Kitchen" published by Audrey's son Luca Dotti back...

I realize at forty-something years of age (ahem) that I have subconsciously modeled my life and relationships after that zany fun...

As the saying goes, “They don’t make ‘em like they used to.” And the flick “Penny Serenade” from 1941 is a perfect example. Melodrama...

Talkin’ to myself and feelin’ old Sometimes I’d like to quit Nothin’ ever seems to fit Hangin’ around Nothin’ to do but frown Rainy days...