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September 2024

September 10, 2024

Terminator 2 Judgment Day and Purpose

I've heard that there's a new Terminator anime on Netflix. I may give it a...

September 03, 2024

Modern Times and Perseverance

How exactly did it take me this long to write about Charlie Chaplin in...

August 2024

August 13, 2024

Wreck-it Ralph and Service

I'm always impressed at how film can so quickly get you curious about things you...

August 06, 2024

Time Out and Honesty

I wrote a little bit ago about Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru and how it deconstructs the...

July 2024

July 09, 2024

12 Angry Men and Valiance

I'll confess I haven't yet been assigned jury duty, but there is one movie that...

June 2024

June 18, 2024

A Quiet Place and Gathering

We all have regrets in life. One of mine is that I did not let...

June 11, 2024

The Skeleton Twins and Solidarity

Today's film deals with some heavy topics, most notably suicide, which will be discussed in...

May 2024

May 14, 2024

Hitch and Authenticity

Full confession: I have yet to see a single episode of The Fresh Prince of...

May 07, 2024

It’s a Wonderful Life and Service

Here's a question. By the end of It's a Wonderful Life, do you think George...

April 2024

April 30, 2024

Rain Man and Selfishness

I've heard it said before that one of the hardest trials a person can be...

April 16, 2024

Alien and Godlessness

I knew that writing about this film through a religious perspective was going to be...

April 09, 2024

Onward and Love

One of the most human of feelings is missing something that you can never have,...

April 02, 2024

Ikiru and Heaven

I consider myself relatively lucky in the way of work. Overall, I have been fortunate...

March 2024

March 26, 2024

Silver Linings Playbook and Empathy

The relationship between accepting yourself as you are and striving to live as your...

March 05, 2024

My Best Friend’s Wedding and Selfishness

The thing you have to know about My Best Friend's Wedding, arguably Julia Roberts' defining...

February 2024

February 27, 2024

Casablanca and Selflessness

Someone let me know: were airports even locales of such sweeping romance before 1942? Before...

February 13, 2024

Avatar the Last Airbender and Sacrifice

Drawing out the spiritual application of any given text is always an interesting endeavor because...

January 2024

January 09, 2024

The Greatest Showman and Worth

I've actually wanted to write about this film in this space for a while, but...

December 2023

December 23, 2023

Klaus and Goodness

Well, folks. It's that time of year again. And by "that time of year," I...

October 2023

October 17, 2023

Butterflies Are Free and True Liberation

"I could love you if you'd let me." So sings Don Baker, one of the...

October 10, 2023

War of the Worlds and Turmoil

There was something like a sixteen-year gap between when I was first traumatized by Steven...

August 2023

August 08, 2023

Nights of Cabiria and Happiness

If there is any part of the human condition more constant than the search for...

April 2023

April 04, 2023

Waking Life and Truth

Today we're going to do something a little different and venture more into something a...

March 2023

March 07, 2023

The Banshees of Inisherin and Pride

A year or two back, a film review channel I follow made a point in...

February 2023

February 28, 2023

Jerry Maguire and Principles

A couple weeks back we discussed From Here to Eternity and doing the right thing...

February 21, 2023

Crazy Rich Asians and Worth

Lately I've been very invested in the works of director Jon M. Chu. He was...

February 15, 2023

The Quiet Man and Peace

And now we turn our attention to that most enticing and elusive of experiences in...

February 07, 2023

Roma and Love

Telling a story through any medium is an innately personal endeavor, but the process can...

January 2023

January 31, 2023

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Precious Heartbreak

The appeal of Michel Gondry's 2004 romance, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, rests on...

January 24, 2023

Minority Report and Judgment

Like many of the films we discuss here, Steven Spielberg's 2002 film, Minority Report, makes...