Our Top 10 Lists

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Since we are coming up on the 1 year anniversary of the revamped podcast, we wanted to show you our top 10 lists of the best movies of all time. Believe me… this was no easy challenge narrowing down our favorite movies and I certainly agonized over each and every choice (even as I wrote this post, I was changing my answers), but it’s as accurate as it can be. Also, these are in alphabetical order because ranking a top 10 list would be even more difficult. Now, to make it extra fun, I have hidden whose list is whose. Think you know us? Let’s find out!! (When you’re ready …

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD: AN ODE TO CAREY MULLIGAN

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Carey Mulligan, you saucy minx. I have seen Thomas Vinterberg’s gorgeous adaptation of Far From the Madding Crowd twice now, and I have to say right up front: I love it. The cinematography, the score, the costuming, the casting choices…in my mind, they’re all aces. Never have lens flare and sheep-laden greenery looked so beautiful. As a movie playing out on screen, I think it hits almost every right note…but as a story, I do have a few minor qualms with it. FFTMC is often described as Thomas Hardy’s “most pastoral” novel, which kind of begs the question: Why exactly was it resurrected from its dusty place on the bookshelf and turned into …

8 MOMENTS I TRULY LOVED KATHARINE HEPBURN

Kelley Blog Posts, Classics, SilverScreenSiren

In honor of Katharine Hepburn’s birthday this week, I’ve been thinking about some of my favorite KH moments both on and off-screen. There are certain obvious snippets people remember her for outside of her movies: her abiding love of trousers in a markedly skirt-wearing portion of the century (pants were more comfortable, damnit!), her less relatable and more question-mark-inducing love of Spencer Tracy (Why, Katharine? Why?), and her drawling, haughty manner of speech. Quite honestly, there are many Golden Age actresses I prefer to watch most of the time–she is often a little too “in your face” for me–but there is just something magnificent about her that you can’t turn …