Alfredo: Living here day by day, you think it's the center of the world. You believe nothing will ever change. Then you leave: a year, two years. When you come back, everything's changed. The thread's...
Thoughts cloud my mind about one of Audrey Hepburn’s personal favorite films regarding the willingness to sacrifice for the faith and the failures of human discernment… or could the latter just...
Based on the previous two films written and directed by Orson Welles, Citizen Kane and Touch of Evil, there’s an undeniable sort of vigor about his filmmaking style. That same sort of vigor is present...
There are other Ridley Scott flicks for me to check out, but of the ones he’s helmed, this one, for me, has remained a blind spot for the longest time. Meanwhile, other friends of mine as well as...
To me, that’s [the film’s ending] really a sign of love and a sign of a possibility of a new beginning. Through that act of his, she can really learn to love them again. A child is really the most...
Fr. O’Malley: Say, Doctor, not to change the subject much, but Bogardus has a bad heart doesn’t he?
Dr. McKay: Yes.
Fr. O’Malley: What are you giving him for it, pills?
Dr. McKay: Why, have...
A ranking of films starring Hollywood Golden Age crush: Barbara Stanwyck… What? Listen, I’m in somewhat firm belief that I was born in the wrong era.
Ball of Fire Meet John Doe Remember the...
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As most who read these missives know, my view of the MCU shifted and I’ve grown wary of the MCU’s episodic formula, especially in recent years and with their latest outputs...
Zuzu Bailey: Look, Daddy. Teacher says, every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.
George Bailey: That's right, that's right. [Looks heavenward] Attaboy, Clarence.
To begin with, this is not...
A ranking of films essential for viewing every Christmas season.
It's a Wonderful Life The Shop Around the Corner Meet John Doe Miracle on 34th Street Remember the Night A Christmas...
Fred Gailey: Faith is believing things when common sense tells you not to. Don't you see? It's not just Kris that's on trial, it's everything he stands for. It's kindness and joy and love and all the...
In a previous write-up of a wonderful film called Ninotchka, Billy Wilder and Ernst Lubitsch worked together and got along as writer and director respectively, turning in a flick for the ages — Lubitsch...
It’s about time that one begins the Christmas tradition of marathoning Christmas movies and specials when it is still December. Luckily, getting sick was the ingredient to keep me from work and do...
Back in 2020, films almost felt like they were few and far in between and now this year, thankfully, the moviegoing environment seems to be slowly picking itself back up on its feet. But as a result,...
There are words that can be enjoyable in not really common usage, but in occasional circumstances. For example, the word “oddity”. Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest fits that mold — an oddity that...
Not entirely sure what it is, but similar to Wyler’s epic drama The Best Years of Our Lives, Eastwood’s war poignancies Flags of Our Fathers & Letters from Iwo Jima, and other films depicting...
This is a tricky flick from which to garner concrete thoughts. There are a few friends of mine who love this film and implore to see it in IMAX. Others say it’s not even worth it to do so, nor is...
Before and right alongside Japanese auteurs such as Kurosawa and Ozu was Kenji Mizoguchi. There are films that can be classified similarly, but this masterwork of love, sacrifice, steadfastness, misfortune,...
One would think that an early John Ford picture starring Barbara Stanwyck was and is a classic gem. Instead, the old RKO picture is a diamond in the rough if that’s fair to say — more so a jewell...
For some reason, the answer as to whether movement or spoken words was funnier seemed clear to me.
Buster Keaton: They say pantomime's a lost art. It's never been a lost art and never will be, because...
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