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When Amanda Arkebauer was a kid, she devoured Nancy Drew novels. Now, she collects clues from the Internet to uncover hidden boxes all over the Northwest. It's a pastime called letterboxing. We also ask a former vocalist from the band Velvet Underground why building violins in Ballard is more satisfying than being a rock star.

Filed under: Fandom, Home Entertainment, Cinematical Seven, Lists With Kit Kittredge: An American Girl finally opening in limited release on Wednesday, it seemed like a good time to take a look at other films girls in the same age demographic might also enjoy. As a mother of three daughters, I like to seek out films that have strong female characters. So many of the roles for females in Hollywood either fall into blatant stereotypes or position young girls and women as existing on this planet primarily for the pleasures of the male half of the species, and I don't want my girls growing up believing the images of women they're exposed to through the media. Of course, everything in life doesn't have to have a political agenda -- what fun would that be? So some of these are just films my own daughters very much enjoy, that the girl in your life might like also. Here are seven great films for fans of American Girl books and movies ... let me know what others I've missed that you like; with only seven slots to work with, I had to leave out a lot of films I otherwise would have included ... Continue reading Cinematical Seven: Great Movies for Smart Girls Permalink | Email this | Comments

1) "Three Books" about weddings, both serious and light-hearted; 2) Ace girl-detective Nancy Drew is the subject of the latest installment of "In Character"; 3) "Laughing Without an Accent", a memoir by Iranian-American author Firoozeh Dumas; 4) A fictional family tree unites gunslingers (Frank and Jesse) with intellectual giants (William and Henry) in "The James Boys" by Richard Liebmann-Smith.

A private detective about to enter the Army investigates the murder of a cop by gangsters who are in the stolen tires racket. Click here to download The Movie Store

A woman has dreams that she is a werewolf so she goes out and finds men. She proceeds to have sex with them and then rip their throats out with her teeth. She eventually falls in love but then she is raped and her lover is murdered so she goes out for revenge. Click here to download The Movie Store

This wartime thriller has newspaperman James Dunn trying to track down a stolen Chinese amulet the offers a clue to a lost treasure. He is racing a Russian teacher as well as an arms dealer for the same prize. This flick includes Ralph Morgan and Linda Gray in the credits. Click here to download The Movie Store

Leo Gorcey stars as Mugs Maloney with Bobby Jordan as Danny in this lower east fight flick during the forties. Danny, managing Mugs boxing career, books him into a Conservation Corps camp for training. When the camps safe is robbed, Mugs is blamed since everyone knows he needed cash for his sick mother. What a line of bull, but it works. Click here to download The Movie Store.

Blanche Mehaffey heads the cast as FBI agent Betty Mason. At the risk of her own neck, Betty pursues the kidnappers of a wealthy businessman. She also juggles the affection of her partner Morrison (Jack Mulhall) and the victim's son Scott (Grant Withers). After five yarn-provoking reels, the film finally roars into life with a truly exciting climactic shootout. Though Blanche Mehaffey had been in films since the silent days, she never quite attained stardom, and was still being referred to as an "unknown" by the 1938 trade papers. Despite the description, this is not a bad movie.

Jimmy Mason idolizes bootlegger Matt Kelly who is interested in Jimmy's girlfriend Peggy. Unwilling to squeal on his idol, Jimmy winds up in a cruel reformatory where a new- found friend dies from abuse. Jimmy's aunt tells him Peggy is seeing a lot of Matt, so Jimmy escapes. Click here to download The Movie Store

A New York Couple is a long way from their home in Brooklyn when their truck breaks down. The two run into one of those goofy fairs, and are forced to sell their only valuable possession. It's an elephant named Bunny that Ollie has grown really attached to. Jose the fair owner sees that Bunny could save his struggling side show but secretly wants the business to fail and does everything to screw up the sale and the love that is developing among the fairs crew for bunny. Why the hell this movie is entitled Machine Gun Mama escapes us. Click here to download The Movie Store

A young woman is on death row for the murder of a man who was blackmailing her family, although she claims she was framed. Her fiancée, a doctor who is conducting experiments on reviving the dead, also happens to be the state's executioner, and is assigned to pull the switch when she is strapped into the electric chair. A famous criminologist, believing her to be innocent, rushes to investigate the case and clear her before her execution date. Click here to download The Movie Store

The lady of the title is author Dorinda Hatch (Joan Caulfield), who writes a scathing best-seller in which she trashes all men. Photographer Bill Shelby (David Niven) vows to make Dorinda eat her words, thereby proving the superiority of the male of the species. Suffice to say that he doesn't succeed--at least until the very, very end. The middle portion of The Lady Says No consists of a surrealistic dream sequence in which Dorinda realizes that she loves Bill despite his rampant chauvinism. This film is not a likely candidate for screening at the next N.O.W. meeting. Lady Says No was produced and directed by Frank Ross, who at the time was married to star Joan Caulfield. Movie Description from NY Times. Click here to download The Movie Store

Crazy tale of some poor sap having too much to drink and finds himself married to a married woman. Similar to Barack Obama awakening this morning finding himself being forced into a shotgun wedding with Hillary Clinton as his running mate.

Frank Johnson, sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is being tracked down by the cops on the hunch that Frank is trying to escape from possible bitch slapping payback. Frank's wife, Eleanor suspects he is actually running away from their unsuccessful marriage. Click here to download The Movie Store

A famous star is discovered by her ex-lover, drowned on a beach. Police arrive and arrest the unlucky bastard on the testimony of busy bodies who saw him with the body. He is slapped with a rap of murder and faces trial. Not to go down easy, the sucker makes a break from the court house with the help of a cops daughter that thinks our guy is too cute to be guilty.

This flick stars Melvyn Douglas Glenn Ford, Jim Backus Stella Stevens posing as a prostitute, and her boss, Jenny Joan Blondell in what we think was the foundation for F Troop the funny TV classic of the late sixties early seventies. Also, Jack Schaefer based this comedy on Company of Cowards, a novel

Now 15 years old, Luci grew up alone with her slutty mother in a poor district of London. After her mother's suicide, Robert, her mother's former high-school boyfriend, brings Luci to his home where she meets his rich wife Aimee and their teenage son. However, Robert is not the boy's biological father. Luci makes Robert think that he's guilty of her mother's death, because he left her after he finished university. Nevertheless, she wants to stay with his family in their beautiful home. It seems to them that she wants revenge. The whole family is confused by her strange behavior toward each of them, which is interpreted as sexual advances... Movie description from IMDb

A Boy and His Dog is a short story by Harlan Ellison which was also the basis of a 1974 post-apocalyptic science fiction film of the same name directed by L. Q. Jones. The story was first published in 1969. A revised and expanded version was printed in Ellison's 1976 story collection The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, and Ellison continued the story in the graphic novel Vic and Blood. The film version is often cited as an inspiration for George Miller's Mad Max though Miller has said he didn't view Jones' film until after he had completed his own [citation needed]. The movie was also distributed after the initial run under the name, "Psycho Boy and His Killer Dog" among other titles. This description is from Wikipedia Click here to download The Movie Store

Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiancée, a romantic stranger, the jealous blond who loves him, and the lecherous husband of a client. This flick was also titled Scandal House Click here to download The Movie Store

Holy man turned ass kicking avenger Father John (Van Cleef) hunts down a gang of criminals, led by Sam Clayton (Palance), who killed a man in a local bar. On the gang's return to the town, they kill the priest, leaving a young parishioner Johnny behind. He now seeks revenge for the death of the

In the Northern California town of Santa Rosa, the Newton's eldest daughter, 'young Charlie', decides that things needs a little cheering up and decides to have her Uncle Charlie come and stay for a while. Much to her surprise, she finds dear Uncle Charlie is already in route. What the family does not know is Uncle Charlie is being pursued by the cops who suspect him of being "The Merry Widow Murderer", a mad strangler wanted in connection with the deaths of several rich East coast widows. Click here to download The Movie Store

George O'Brien is Bob Wallace, a Border Patrolman who resigns in protest after being humiliated by the spoiled granddaughter of a millionaire vacationing at a desert resort near the Mexican border. Later, the girl's grandfather hires him to baby sit the girl brat. In the meantime, the young girl is hooking up with a sophisticated jewel thief who plans using her as a "mule" to unwittingly smuggle jewelry across the border. Click to download The Movie Store

Tailspin Tommy, a hit in comics and on the radio of yesteryear, makes his way into features and serials. The film concerns Whitey, a tough pain in the ass kid that Tailspin shows some kindness to get him on the straight and narrow. And he eventually does, until his evil brother, who really is an asshole uses Whitey to lure Tailspin into a trap so the money he was delivering can be stolen after a plane crash. Click here to download The Movie Store