Briony Smith’s column Frail, frumpy and feeble, When will Hollywood stop failing women at the movies?, which appeared in the Toronto Star on May 10, 2025, had me jumping for joy. Finally, someone sees the movie business the way I do. Baby boomers, particularly women, are completely ignored as a viable, profitable movie-going audience demographic. The industry caters to teenagers and men. There’s an overabundance of…
There are so few movies that appeal to our age group these days that when one does come along I immediately rush off to see it at my local movie theatre. Sci-fi, action flicks, superheroes, and movies with excessive violence are not my cup of tea. It’s also a legitimate excuse to load up on warm movie popcorn and an icy fountain Diet Coke, treats…
We all remember the famous scene with Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard in Breakfast at Tiffany’s all those years ago when they ventured into the exclusive Tiffany’s jewelry store in New York City to buy something special. With only $10.00 to spend they first rejected a sterling silver telephone dialler for $6.75 (in 2024 that would be a steal for sterling but in retrospect a…
“Men want to be him and women want to be with him.”. That’s how New York Times writer Elizabeth Vincentelli described the Jack Reacher character played by Alan Ritchson on the new Reacher series streaming on Amazon Prime Video. She also described him as a giant tenderized side of beef. This should give you a pretty good idea of why the action series based on…
This boomer joined a friend and her husband to see Barbie, the movie, this week. My own husband declined and I’m afraid he short-changed himself. I have only one word to describe the movie—BRILLIANT! When the first whispers of a Barbie movie started hitting the media I could not imagine what on earth they could concoct in Hollywood to make a movie about a glamour…
Any movie starring Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen, and Diane Keaton is guaranteed to be a hit . . . right? Targeted at the profitable baby boomer market and featuring four talented boomer-age women, Book Club, The Next Chapter is, I regret to tell you . . . a miss. My gal pals and I couldn’t wait for this movie to hit the theatres. We enjoyed…
