By Jessica Wheeler, AliveTampaBay Columnist
It’s a Saturday afternoon in autumn, 1960. You’re 11 years old, clutching some coins in your hand as you approach the box office underneath the theater marquee. You and your friends are about to spend the afternoon at the movies. The poster advertises today’s offering: The Magnificent Seven.
By Jessica Wheeler, AliveTampaBay Columnist
It’s November, 1983, and Will Byers is a nerdy middle school student who disappears on his way home from a D&D session with his three best friends. His mother, his outcast older brother, the small-town police chief, his buddies and a mysterious young girl named Eleven all join in to search for him—but is there more to this disappearance than meets the eye?
By Jessica Wheeler, AliveTampaBay Columnist
In The Great Escape, McQueen spends most of the movie imprisoned in a German POW camp, so when he breaks out, steals a German motorcycle and uniform, and heads for the Swiss border, the rush of energy is palpable. It’s an exciting chase sequence, where he’s almost captured, then makes it to the border…but will he make it over the fence?