Movies

February 16, 2025

wake up before it’s too late

It’s Sunday evening. The weekend is winding down, and for most of us, the gravity of another Monday is setting in. A slow, creeping resignation. The ritual continues: set the alarms, prep for the workweek, slip into the machinery of modern life without much resistance. We tell ourselves we’re free,...

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February 1, 2025

terminator: dark fate

can we ever escape our destiny? I’ll admit it—when Terminator: Dark Fate popped up in my Netflix feed, my first reaction was a weary sigh. Another Terminator movie? How many times are we going to bend the space-time continuum just to bring back Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton? Haven’t we...

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November 19, 2019

On repeat

I had such fun with yesterday’s list post, and I learned so more about my friend Cathy and her hopes, that I thought I’d do another. This time list the movies you watch over and over again and why. Here’s my list, in no particular order: It’s a Wonderful Life...

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October 4, 2019

The Joker doing his joker thing and causing deep unease

Looks like the new Joker movie has opened to some controversy: But “Joker” is also causing deep unease. Some people, including a few rank-and-file employees on the Warner Bros. lot, worry that the violent, hyper-realistic movie is potentially dangerous — that rather than critiquing the societal failings that have given...

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May 6, 2018

Should I go in or I should I go out?

“I was blind but now I can see!” There’s a couple, two, three things going on with me at the moment. I’m standing at the crossroads where I have to decide whether I want to turn inward and go on another journey of personal transformation to see if indeed I...

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