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“A single tear shed at the remembrance of the Passion of Jesus is worth more than a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, or a year of fasting on bread and water.”

— St. Augustine

Frankly, it might be better...

The World’s Hatred “If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first… Whoever hates me also hates my Father… When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of...

Early into Ponyo’s production, Miyazaki, with a Sakura cigarette dangling from beneath his thick mustache, looked over his yet-to-be-finished storyboards, and said:

“We must be idealistic realists....

Young Shizuku talks to her best friend Yuko about Seizi, a boy she likes. However, he’s flying away to Italy, in pursuit of his dreams to become a luthier. Meanwhile, she’s still trying to figure...

Sometime between the late preschool years and before shyly toddling into Miss Judy’s Kindergarten class was when my formerly little, Charles Schulz-designed hands touched and held what was possibly...

Arthur Curry: I don’t know what lies ahead. But we can’t leave our children in a world without hope.

Well, maybe if one considers the possibilities resulting from behind the scenes drama, there...

Oh, the somewhat good ol’ days when cape flicks bore more of an artist’s vision. The sixth film in the formerly known DC Extended Universe saw its success in the gradually rotting, sizzling and...

Okay, peeps, after landing a few jabs and kicks and trying out some splits with our last episode on Double Impact starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Ben, Chris, and I have returned to the isle of Ghibli...

Midge: I think I see how we see us.

Augie: Hmm?

Midge: I mean I think I know now what we realize what we are.

Augie: Okay.

Midge: Two catastrophically wounded people who don’t express the depths...

Hey, peeps! We.. are BACK, baby! After a bit of a break, come and join us for another episode of The Searchers podcast! This time, we three discuss a Hong Kong film, Painted Faces. A late ‘80s biographical...

Peter Parker, the first and prime web-head with eyes lit with joy proceeds to show Miguel O’Hara, Spider-Man 2099, pictures of his young daughter Mayday on his phone… 

Peter: Miguel, look at this...

Besides these glaringly unimaginative phrases such as, “This film ran, so this other film can walk” or fittingly for this write-up, the use of the suffix, “ception,” to both describe a layered...

Indy’s goddaughter speaks to him during a brief respite as they drift off towards an ancient shipwreck in the Aegean Sea…

Helena: What if you could go back in time? What would you do?

Truthfully,...

Recovering from the poison he willingly consumed so as for the Commissaire’s (Mathieu Amalric) kidnapped son to be saved, police officer/chef Lt. Nescaffier (Stephen Park) reveals a surprising truth...

BARBENHEIMER PART II

During his security hearing, the theoretical physicist, under intense scrutiny plus mental and physical distress, confides to his lawyer the unprincipled, defamatory, and shallow...

Tim Ballard: God’s children are not for sale.

It’s a bit difficult to recall exactly how word of another Alejandro Monteverde film post-Bella and one starring Jim Caviezel had made its way through...

In my review for Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, it was penned towards the end…

“… there’s something about Gyllenhaal as an actor that’s so alluring. Unlike others, the dude doesn’t seem...

Alright, alright, peeps, the next episode of The Searchers podcast is a special little rapid fire kind of gift to you wherein Ben, Chris, and I hand to each other 2 films and we delve into them as...

In a moderately similar vein as Tarantino’s evolution through the years, it might be fair to say that Guy Ritchie’s journey has also brought him to the goalpost of maturity. However, with Quentin,...

The Elder: None of us can escape who we are, and no one escapes the Table. And the only way John Wick will ever have freedom or peace, now or ever, is in death.

John: I know.

The Elder: I'm afraid...