Movie Revelations

On the streets of Manhattan, anyone can be a Movie critic.

The Movies! Since the first audiences saw their first “moving” pictures we have been moved. I grew up going to the movies; every week. I swear I must have been conceived in a movie theater. Every Saturday throughout my childhood I was taken to or went with my best friend to see at least one movie. In the summer my family went to the Drive-In on Saturday night.

So by the time I was an adult going to the movies was just what I did. There were some years that I literally saw every movie that was released. And then I fell in love with a man who was making movies. Seemed a natural progression.

Tom has been in the movie business for some thirty odd years now. He has worked on iconic TV shows, created effects and props for TV commercials, and slaved endless hours on the crew of feature films both large and small. There is an amazing energy to making movies; a tour de force. Often the production lands you on the streets of New York.

New Yorkers have literally seen it all and are not easily impressed by the all things shiny of making movies; especially when you tell them that they have to move or, God forbid, be quiet. But secretly I suspect that they are very proud that their City is a major player in the cast of many great films and TV shows. And they ain’t shy about telling you how to make a better movie.

The lessons I have learned from my insatiable appetite for the Motion Picture have affected every aspect of my life. From concept, to writing the scripts, to production to the delicious consumption of a job well done, in our house the movies move us and sustain us. Now that’s drama. And the Oscar goes to…