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This Weekend at the Packard Campus Theater (October 14 – 15, 2022)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

This coming weekend at the Packard Campus Theater (19053 Mt. Pony Road / Culpeper, VA) Who wants to be scared?  This month–of course, October–the Packard Campus Theater looks at “Monsters Among Us.”   FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14 @ 7:30 p.m. The Night of the Hunter   (United Artists, 1955) Robert Mitchum looks like a good guy but …

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This Weekend at the Packard Campus Theater (October 7 – October 8, 2022)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

This coming weekend at the Packard Campus Theater (19053 Mt. Pony Road / Culpeper, VA) Be warned:  Not all monsters look like monsters.  At least not this month at the Packard Campus Theater as we look at “Monsters Among Us.”  Sometimes, you see, they are just cute and cuddly (and animated).  But sometimes, they look …

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This Weekend at the Packard Campus Theater (September 30 – October 1, 2022)

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

This coming weekend at the Packard Campus Theater (19053 Mt. Pony Road / Culpeper, VA) As September fades into the October, the Packard Campus Theater finishes with the “future,” and looks at various “Monsters Among Us.”  But, first, we embrace the “silents.”   FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 @ 7:30 p.m. “The Song of Life” (Associated First …

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READING THE STARS: The Whitman Authorized Editions of the 1940s

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

Today, movie stars are easily accessible to us:  on TV, by way of streaming services and, of course, via the internet, usually even via that star’s very own Twitter and Instagram. In fact, celebrities—of every conceivable stripe–are so omnipresent that it seems hard to imagine, or remember, a time when even our most famous film …

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I KNOW A PLACE?: Can You ID These DC Locations?

Posted by: Cary O’Dell

Washington, DC, and its surrounding area, is not usually thought of as a filmmaking capitol but, from time to time, we have been the background to some very memorable movies.  And this has been going on for years. All the way back in 1919, silent screen superstar Constance Talmadge, then heading her very own production …