Charlotte Katz's Bonita Springs Real Estate Blog

Global warming has not caught up with Opera Naples. But the uncertainties of being a gypsy company and working without understudies have. All three took a debilitating toll on the company’s final performance of “The Magic Flute” Saturday at the Cambier Park [...]

I love a good courtroom movie. In life, a courtroom is the last place I’d want to be, but give me two hours of watching someone else having to stand before a judge and I’m [...]

Calling all movie critics — The Naples Daily News and naplesnews.com want to hear your thoughts on the movie “Alice in Wonderland,” which stars Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Mia Wasikowska. [...]

Calling all movie critics — The Naples Daily News and naplesnews.com want to hear your thoughts on the movie “Alice in Wonderland,” which stars Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Mia Wasikowska. [...]

The Winter Olympics are upon us, and while I’m not a huge sports fan (I spent too much time watching movies), I have to admit it’s a little [...]

Film critic Roger Ebert lost his ability to speak nearly four years ago, when he underwent a tracheostomy, a procedure that opens an airway through an incision in the windpipe, after surgery for cancer in his [...]

A lot has been made of the decision by the Academy Awards to nominate 10 films this year instead of the traditional five. For certain there are films nominated for the top prize this year that wouldn’t have been in the running had the list been [...]

Many movies put out around Valentine’s Day are meant to be watched with our better halves in hopes of being swept off our feet. It usually doesn’t work, and we’re left with a bad taste that not even Listerine could dispose [...]

Authors and filmmakers have come up with endless ways to inject fresh blood into the vampire, while the werewolf generally has been left out there alone on the moors, howling at the [...]

Channing Tatum knows that “Dear John” could be slapped with the (dreaded) chick-flick label in some [...]

Actress Brittany Murphy died from pneumonia, and probably would have survived if she had gone to a doctor in time, a coroner’s official said [...]

I was flipping channels a couple weeks ago and came across “The Pink Panther;” not the classic 1963 film starring Peter Sellers, but the 2006 remake starring Steve Martin. It grossed more than $100 million. When you finish watching it you’re left wondering, [...]

In any given situation, if something terrible goes down you can simply pick up the phone and dial 911. On the flip side, if something minuscule happens, like a paper cut, you can cover it with a Band-Aid and call it a [...]

Ever wonder what your pets are thinking? You can be in the kitchen singing a Duran Duran tune and look over to notice your dog staring at you with his head cocked to the side, a bewildered expression on his [...]

Like many families during the Great Depression, the Kuhns left the Midwest for California. That’s why 2-year-old Mickey Kuhn happened to be walking around a Sears, Roebuck and Co. store in Santa Monica in 1934 when a man approached his mother with a business proposition. [...]

We all have bad days. I’ve found that it makes me feel better when I’m having a bad day to watch a movie about someone who’s having a far worse day than I am. I can point at the screen, laugh and say, “Gee, life would be a lot worse if I were being attacked by killer tomatoes instead of that [...]