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December 2022

December 20, 2022
I try to avoid controversial matters when I can on this site, including the question...

November 2022

November 29, 2022
  I'm not really a winter person, which makes the coming months something of an...
November 15, 2022
A few weeks back when I talked about Scream, I mentioned that self-aware movies are...

October 2022

October 29, 2022
It's a miracle that a movie like Scream ever landed on my list of favorite...
October 06, 2022
I remember an experience I had in 9th grade P.E. This was the rare class...

September 2022

September 27, 2022
As we move from the blockbuster season toward that time when all the auteur pieces...
September 20, 2022
JA Bayona's 2012 epic dramatizes the experience of the real-life Belón family (named the Bennet...

August 2022

August 30, 2022
In the years leading up to Christ's birth, the intellectuals of the day anticipated the...
August 23, 2022
A few weeks ago, we looked at "A Face in the Crowd" as an exploration...
August 02, 2022
When we talked about Chicago, I noted how that film displays the allure of sin...

July 2022

July 19, 2022
As I slowly but surely make my way through gleaning the religious metaphors across every...
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...
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