Susan Marlowe, CPA, and the family film scene…

Greetings from Susan Marlowe, CPA! I am continuing to watch family films with my niece, Kimi. She has developed a great affection for Danny Kaye films. A great deal of fun had by all!

Latest News from Susan Marlowe CPA and her niece in their new film club (The Susan Marlowe and Kimi Peck Movie Club)

Susan Marlowe CPA and her new movie club

Greetings from Susan Marlowe CPA. My niece and I are continuing to form our movie club. I am hoping for another Beverly Hills Chihuahua film. I am also starting to make a list of the best foreign, family-oriented films. I am so excited to be building up my movie club with my niece Kimi Peck. We are working really hard to create an awesome family movie club.

I am so happy to finally be getting the movie club going. I am also working on my movie reviews and I hope to have ton of new material for you. Susan Marlowe is on the case! I am hoping to have a ton of new reviews up before the new year. I am totally excited abut the new reviews that will be coming up.

Anyway, I hope that you will enjoy these reviews. Thanks from Susan Marlowe CPA

Latest News from Susan Marlowe CPA

Greetings from Susan Marlowe CPA. I hope everyone is having a great time. I have not posted lately but will be adding more reviews very soon. Watched Beverly Hills Chihuahua again. It is as cute as ever. My niece Kimi (aka Kimi Peck) really enjoyed it as well. I have been busy at the gym and with some other projects. I am now volunteering at a local animal shelter. Florida has lots of dogs and cats who need homes. I hope you will adopt from an animal shelter when the time comes to get a new cat or dog.

Anyway, back to family films. Like I said, Beverly Hills Chihuahua is as cute as ever. I really enjoyed it.

 

Thanks from Susan Marlowe CPA!

Susan Marlowe CPA | The Great Family Film Review with Kimi

Hello from Susan Marlowe CPA! My little niece Kimi says hello as well. We are very excited to announce a new idea for our website. It is the Great Family Film Review. As you all know, Kimi is a huge Gregory Peck fan and she wanted to share her enthusiasm with her classroom. So, she shared a Gregory peck movie with her friends. Well, Kimi gave me an idea. We have book clubs in town. What about a family movie club?

The local antique store Gudger Cludger, has offered to host our club. So, we have an awesome idea, a great place to meet and great people to meet with. If you have never been to Gudger Cludger, you really need to visit it. It is fantastic!

So, in honor of Kimi, we are going to watch a Gregory Peck movie first. Which one? Well that is a secret for now. We will be announcing it very soon.

Other news from Susan Marlowe CPA

So, now that the big announcement is out of the way, what else is happening? Well, Kimi and I are continuing to review family films using the Cynthia Principle. (Read all about the Cynthia Principle on my front page.)

As the great film critic Charlotte Gilbert said, the best films can also be the kindest. I am a huge fan of Charlotte Gilbert, as you can tell.

So, I will continue to review films and post them on the blog as regularly as I can. I am also happy to announce that my honey, Simon Spadaro, is going to be helping with reviews on this site as well. Some of you may know Simon Spadaro from his work in local theater.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy all these reviews. Thanks from Susan Marlowe CPA.

SUSAN MARLOWE CPA Movie Reviews | My Niece Kimi Meets Gregory Peck

Gregory Peck | Susan Marlowe CPA's Niece Kimi's Latest Love

Hello from Susan Marlowe CPA in Tallahassee, FL! My seven year old niece, Kimi, is visiting and she is truly a little darling. I decided to take the opportunity to introduce my niece Kimi to classic actors. She liked the idea and we chose Gregory Peck.

As most of you know, I am a hoarder of classic motion pictures. I love nothing better than to introduce kids to old films. Gregory Peck is one of my favorites and by the end of the visit, my niece Kimi was a fan as well. I started to jokingly refer to her as Kimi Peck. Notice that she didn’t object. 😉

Here are the Gregory Peck motion pictures from my hoard that I shared with Kimi:

We started with the Gregory Peck classic Roman Holiday. Kimi absolutely loved it! In fact, it was after this film that I started to refer to her as Kimi Peck. Here is what Wikipedia says about it:

Roman Holiday is a 1953 romantic comedy directed and produced by William Wyler and starring Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn. It was written by John Dighton and Dalton Trumbo, though with Trumbo on the Hollywood blacklist, he did not receive a credit; instead, Ian McLellan Hunter fronted for him. Trumbo’s credit was reinstated when the film was released on DVD in 2003.

Hepburn won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance; the screenplay and costume design also took statuettes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Holiday

I really love the story but my love for it is nothing compared to Kimi’s. I was really thrilled.

Next, Susan Marlowe and the newly minted “Kimi Peck” chose to watch something a little more serious from my motion picture hoarder collection. Kimi chose the Gregory Peck film The Gunfighter, which really surprised me. Kimi does not watch a lot of Westerns, usually. Anyway, here is the information:

Gregory Peck | Susan Marlowe introduces her young niece, Kimi, to the great star and dubs her "Kimi Peck" as a result

The Gunfighter is a 1950 western film starring Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell and Karl Malden (who came back after a three year hiatus). This film was directed by Henry King. It was written by screenwriters William Bowers and William Sellers, with an uncredited rewrite by writer and producer Nunnally Johnson, from a story by Bowers and screenwriter and director Andre de Toth.

Kimi Peck really enjoyed watching this one as well. It is a bit darker than most of the films we had watched before but it didn’t seem to bother her at all. So, what was next for my little niece Kimi Peck? She wanted to see Twelve O’Clock High!

According to Wikipedia:

Twelve O’Clock High is a 1949 American war film about aircrews in the United States Army’s Eighth Air Force who flew daylight bombing missions against Nazi Germany and occupied France during the early days of American involvement in World War II. The film was adapted by Sy Bartlett, Henry King (uncredited) and Beirne Lay, Jr. from the 1948 novel by Bartlett and Lay. It was directed by King and stars Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Millard Mitchell, and Dean Jagger.

The film was nominated for four Academy Awards and won two: Dean Jagger for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, and Best Sound Recording. In 1998, Twelve O’Clock High was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_O%27Clock_High

By this time, you would have thought that Kimi would be tired of Gergory Peck films. Not so! She was ready for more! It was so exciting to see Kimi dig through my hoard of motion pictures looking for her new favorite movie star. I told you she was a little darling. Well, for more news on the adventures of the newly minted Kimi Peck, be sure to check back on my blog. Thanks from Susan Marlowe CPA