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July 2025

July 08, 2025

East of Eden and Goodness

Today's confession: I don't really care much for Rebel Without a Cause. Not hating, it's...

October 2024

October 22, 2024

Sunshine Cleaning and Love

Between my readings of both Enchanted and Arrival, I think this is the third time...

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...

March 2024

March 26, 2024

Silver Linings Playbook and Empathy

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

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...

February 2023

February 21, 2023

Crazy Rich Asians and Worth

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

January 2023

January 24, 2023

Minority Report and Judgment

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

January 03, 2023

Scent of a Woman and Being “Irredeemable”

There are a lot of things about Martin Brest's 1992 film, Scent of a Woman,...

November 2022

November 29, 2022

The Way, Way Back and Worth

I'm not really a winter person, which makes the coming months something of an...

September 2022

September 27, 2022

In Bruges and Guilt

As we move from the blockbuster season toward that time when all the auteur pieces...

July 2022

July 12, 2022

Notorious and Goodness

I mentioned in my piece on Rust and Bone that one of the hidden graces...

February 2022

February 08, 2022

Rust and Bone and Goodness

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

August 2021

August 02, 2021

The Boy and the Beast and Human Flaws

Going to church would be much easier without all the people getting in the way,...

July 2021

July 03, 2021

The Woodsman and the Depths of The Atonement

Given the thorny nature of the film's subject material, I debated for some time about...

June 2021

June 01, 2021

Waterloo Bridge and Shame

Today's film stretches back to classical film and love lost to war. The 1940 version...