by Sasha Stone | Aug 19, 2011 | WATCHING MOVIES WITH EMMA
My 13 year-old daughter indulges my strange movie-watching habits. For instance, I almost always choose a movie I’ve seen and liked over one I’ve never seen. And I often watch the same movie over and over again until I know all of the dialogue. One such...
by Sasha Stone | Jul 29, 2010 | FILM, Misc, Movies, WATCHING MOVIES WITH EMMA
When the Breakfast Club first came out, I was a teenager myself. I was just a year or two out of high school. I don’t even remember where I was or what I was doing. I probably was commuting to Santa Barbara, attending the city college up there, and had some...
by Sasha Stone | Jul 22, 2010 | FAMILY, FILM, WATCHING MOVIES WITH EMMA
When did the message stop being, “it’s not whether you win or lose it’s how you play the game” and turn into “everybody’s a winner”? I’ll tell you when. When money started being the primary reason for making kids films...
by Sasha Stone | Jun 30, 2010 | WATCHING MOVIES WITH EMMA
I wasn’t sure if I would be able to watch Fast Times with my twelve year old daughter. She can handle a lot — but Fast Times is, well, pretty fast. My feeling, though, is that the sooner she is aware of the way things can be around her fellow teen the...
by Sasha Stone | Apr 24, 2010 | FILM, WATCHING MOVIES WITH EMMA
One of the things I’m most proud of about the kid is that she loves movies like I do. I can’t believe that she can quote them better and with more precision than I can. The movies we quote back and forth now are Shakespeare in Love, A Fish Called Wanda and...
by Sasha Stone | Dec 22, 2008 | WATCHING MOVIES WITH EMMA
My ten year old is turning out to be a great movie watcher. She has been watching many of the Oscar contenders for Best Picture – and likes The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire, along with The Dark Knight. She was just a tad bored by...
I spend way too much thinking about me.
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