Growing Up with Movies | Andy Wolverton

What's Your Film Journey Look Like?

Every movie lover has an origin story, the place where the love of movies took hold and never turned you loose. I hope you'll share some...

Growing Up with Movies: The Video Editions

For a few years now, I've been writing the occasional blog post about my experiences growing up with movies. Today I'm beginning a video...

Growing Up with Movies: The Revisionist West Through the Eyes of a Nine-Year-Old

(This examination of Frank Perry's Doc (1971) contains SPOILERS.) My local theater’s poster for Doc (1971) promised something familiar,...

Growing Up with Movies: My First Movie Experience, Part II

(If you missed it, you can read Part I here.) The book opened to a page with more writing, but this was different. I immediately...

Growing Up with Movies: My First Movie Experience, Part I

My first memory of going to the movies involves darkness, awe, and fear. I can’t remember how old I was, but let’s say I was five. My...

Growing Up with Movies: Cloris Leachman (1926-2021)

When you're young, your first experience with an actor stays with you, for good or bad. If you first see Jack Palance or Lee Van Cleef as...

Growing Up with Movies: The Look

He stands elegantly dressed in a white tuxedo, cradling a cigarette lighter, looking ahead and slightly downward, his cigarette pointed...