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July 2022

July 17, 2022
Like many of the films we discuss here, there are a lot of internal contradictions...
July 12, 2022
I mentioned in my piece on Rust and Bone that one of the hidden graces...

June 2022

June 29, 2022
As I eagerly await the final episodes of Stranger Things 4, and as I, too,...

May 2022

May 31, 2022
Well, Jurassic World: Dominion comes out really soon, so naturally I've been thinking about the...

April 2022

April 26, 2022
In my piece on "Black Swan," I confessed that growing up, R-rated films were a...
April 07, 2022
In my old age, I consistently ask myself why Disneyland still hasn't given us a...

February 2022

February 08, 2022
I enjoy a great many films, but there are a select few that have actually...

January 2022

January 24, 2022
I actually didn't start watching The Andy Griffith Show until really recently. My clients at...
January 11, 2022
So this weekend marked roughly my dozenth watch of Knives Out. Not much else to...
January 04, 2022
There's a controversy at the heart of the James Cameron 1997 epic, "Titanic," that has...

December 2021

December 09, 2021
Well, the new West Side Story is coming out tomorrow, so why not talk about...

November 2021

November 18, 2021
In John Chapter 3, Jesus is instructing Nicodemus how to inherit eternal life, and his...

October 2021

October 27, 2021
I watched a video earlier this week tracing the cultural origins of the werewolf folklore,...
October 07, 2021
Gens Y and Z have a special interest in making good guys out of really...
October 01, 2021
Of the twelve or so moments that make me tear up in Coco, there's one...

September 2021

September 14, 2021
Today's post was actually inspired by a meme I saw from a Pokemon page I...

August 2021

August 30, 2021
In the first chapter of this series, I made a comment about Andy's unusual role...
August 24, 2021
It's a somewhat dispiriting notion for the religious viewer that the most explicitly religious references...
August 17, 2021
What's true of The Shawshank Redemption is really true of most of the movies I...
August 09, 2021
If applicable, think of the first person who growing up inspired you to lifelong religious...
August 02, 2021
Going to church would be much easier without all the people getting in the way,...

July 2021

July 29, 2021
Superhero movies tend to come with ready-to-order religious applicability. Stories with supremely virtuous protagonists who...
July 21, 2021
Throwback to the film that made Marvel want to rope Brie Larson into their squad....
July 17, 2021
Alright. We're fresh off of Disney and Alfred Hitchcock on my docket of spotlighted movies....
July 14, 2021
And now presenting, the one movie in which James Stewart is the guy you DON'T...
July 10, 2021
I don't know about any of you, but growing up I often heard my local...
July 07, 2021
I grew up in a household that did not watch R-rated films. This practice, while...
July 03, 2021
Given the thorny nature of the film's subject material, I debated for some time about...

June 2021

June 30, 2021
If you're not familiar with Stanley Donen's film, Charade, know that it stars Hollywood icons...
June 26, 2021
Please don't misunderstand what I'm about to say--I never intend to be demeaning or step...
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