Summer classic film "Dirty Dancing" was released almost exactly 25 years ago  on Aug. 21, 1987, and it holds a PG-13 rating. The film stars Jennifer Grey as Frances "Baby" Houseman and the late Patrick Swayze as Johnny Castle who play a young innocent and a dance instructor at a Catskills resort, respectively, who improbably fall in love amid a scandal. Lots of raised eyebrows going on here. The dancing alone in this flick is SO much fun to watch (that jump!) but it introduced some great quotes, too, most notably the one spoken by Johnny: "Nobody puts Baby in a corner." Aside from the dirty …

No summer movie list would be complete without the 1983 classic, "National Lampoon's Vacation" starring Chevy Chase as the inimitable Clark Griswold, Beverly D'Angelo as his long-suffering wife Ellen and Randy Quaid as the equally one-of-a-kind Cousin Eddie. Oh, come on, so it's not Shakespeare. I defy you to say you didn't laugh. And you repeated lines from that movie, too, didn't you! Just like you have lines from "Christmas Vacation" memorized, right? To be honest, while most families read Clement Moore's "Night Before Christmas," our family's tradition included the Griswold family. What …

With the 2012 Olympic games in London running in our home pretty much 24/7, I haven't watched any new movies this week. But, in keeping with the Olympic spirit, I give you a list of movies about the Olympics that spans a diversity of sports, movie genres and critical acclaim. Have you seen any of these Olympic movies? Which one do you think deserves an Olympic gold medal? Tell us in the comments. According to a report compiled by IGC Entertainment Group at the start of the Beijing Summer Olympics, these are the top 10 Olympic movies of all time. 10. International Velvet 9. Prefontaine 8. The …

If you are looking for an easy family movie rental that will please just about everyone, look no further than “Puss in Boots.” In fact, this week’s summer movie comes highly recommended by the entire Lehigh Valley Patch movie review team: Papa Bear, age 40-plus, Mama Bear, age, never-you-mind, Big Bro Bear, age 8, and Lil Bro Bear, age 5. What we'd really prefer is to know what films say "summer" to you. Share your favorite film list with jennifer.marangos@patch.com and we'll try to feature some of them in the weeks to come! Those familiar with the Shrek movie empire may find the male lead in…

The older I get, the more of a traditionalist I become. Reeses Peanutbutter Cups are supposed to be covered in milk chocolate. And they surely aren’t supposed to be an inch and a half thick. Kids are supposed to get out when they play baseball. Everyone batting every inning makes everyone in the stands a little hostile. And, it creates a bunch of spoiled little people who cry hysterically when they don’t get invited to a classmates’ birthday party. Carrots are supposed to be orange, not purple or whatever bizzaro color the ones I recently saw in Wegmans are. And, when it comes to Star Wars, …

Nothing says summer like watching Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta pretend they don't like each other for two hours until they finally just succumb like the movie "Grease." Released in the summer of 1978, you may recall good girl Sandy meets greaser Danny over the summer and when they meet up at school in the fall, as hard as they try, they just don't fit each other's mold. But the best part is the music. You could just belt out any one of those songs right now...couldn't you. Last summer, in fact, a purely sing-a-long version of the movie was released will all the words on the screen for…

Originally released in 1963, “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” definitely fits the cliché “they don’t make ‘em like the used to.” Featuring a star-studded cast of yester-year including Jimmy Durante, Milton Burle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Jonathan Winters, and Mickey Rooney, this comedy adventure chronicles the exploits of a group of strangers as they race to find $350,000 in stolen cash based on a dying criminal’s last words. The film is enjoyable for all ages, and could make the perfect way to while away a rainy summer afternoon inside with the kids or beat the humidity of a sticky summer…