Something that I've noticed and struggled to articulate before is what exactly defines the genre of "romance." See, I think most art is romantic, intentionally or not, but if you have to classify them,...
You either love Rian Johnson for destroying the Star Wars brand or you hate Rian Johnson destroying the Star Wars brand. In 2017, Johnson was responsible for Disney’s Star Wars The Last Jedi. The...
SIX SUSPECTS (Lin Tuan-Chiu, Taiwan, 1965, 3)
The black-and-white widescreen, jazzy score and view from inside a car on a rainy night promise a noirish Otto Preminger film, but ANATOMY OF A MURDER...
PATHS TO PARADISE (Clarence Badger, USA, 1925, 8)
A bit of enjoyable nonsense about a couple of jewel thieves among the impossibly riche. Raymond Griffith and Betty Compson make an appealing couple...
"God’s Faithfulness Frees the Bonds of Grief"Content: +1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)
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I don't have many Thanksgiving traditions. One involves a bottle of Pappy I partake in once a year. I sit on the porch with bourbon and a cigar and reflect on the things for which I am most thankful....
LISTEN TO THE PLUGGED IN SHOW, EPISODE 157 We don’t need to tell you that it’s Thanksgiving Eve. (Or, if we do need to tell you, you should probably start thawing that turkey.) We also don’t need...
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A friend said that "Blade Runner was already a film about the last human feeling, the last emotion, before everything dissolves into media." This line really helped...
Marriage: His Greatest Adventure Yet!
The Indiana Jones series' mission statement, "fortune and glory," is a joke, because that's what all films and filmmakers are chasing, what all artists are chasing,...
"Strangely Boring and Woke"Content: -3 Excessive sex, violence, immorality, and/or worldview problems. (Sometimes excessive content such as violence is in otherwise redemptive movies.)
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Bones and All **1/2
The central conceit in director Luca Guadagnino’s film—adapted by David Kajganich from Camille DeAngelis’s 2015 novel—is clearly an allegory for something; the question of...
You can’t begrudge Steven Spielberg for turning the camera on himself at this point in his career.
The 75-year-old legend behind “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Jaws,” “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial”...
The name “Thanksgiving” might feel a bit ironic in your household. You might scoff at the idea of giving thanks, considering how you’re more or less forced to deal with disagreeable relatives. It’s...
JOHNNY CASH: THE REDEMPTION OF AN AMERICAN ICON is a documentary getting a brief theatrical release and tells how the influential country and folk music singer, songwriter lost his way after becoming addicted...
Ramón: A man like him is very rare.
Pat: Thank you, Ramón.
Ramón: You’re welcome, señorita. [walks away]
Pat: If he was going to ride the brute, why didn’t he do it when it meant something?
Julie:...
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