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Category: movies

  • Saturday Morning Cinema – Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

    Saturday Morning Cinema – Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

    Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark ignited my imagination as a child, launching a lifelong love of cinema. Spielberg’s direction, John Williams’ score, and unforgettable characters made Raiders a keystone film—one that still thrills, inspires, and earns its place among the greatest American movies ever made.

  • Saturday Morning Cinema – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    Saturday Morning Cinema – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    When your relationship persists in misery, do you suppress it in silence or does it lead to the occasional lash out? Or, perhaps you can push through the negative and rediscover the positive that created the relationship in the first place. Number 67 on AFI’s Top 100 American Films of All Time is Who’s Afraid…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema – Black Christmas

    Saturday Morning Cinema – Black Christmas

    Traditional Christmas movies are fun, great even, but what if you need a palate cleanser? Enter 1974’s Black Christmas, a movie that created a template for future slasher films and provides insight into why A Christmas Story is not so innocent.

  • Saturday Morning Cinema – Violent Night

    Saturday Morning Cinema – Violent Night

    Violent Night is not your traditional holiday movie fare, at least not on the surface. Peel back the violence and explosions, and you get something familiar that will either wrap you in the warm embrace of Christmas nostalgia or beat you over the head with it.

  • Saturday Morning Cinema – Oblivion

    Saturday Morning Cinema – Oblivion

    Oh, the weeks have gone quickly. Where I was just wrapping up Halloween-themed viewing, the calendar deceived me and flipped to December. Missing all of November was not intentional but also not without reason. I recently returned from a trip to Iceland, whose magical landscapes lured me into dreamy thoughts of the films and shows…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema – House of Wax (2005)

    Saturday Morning Cinema – House of Wax (2005)

    About a 5-minute read Wax on. Wax off. Paris Hilton. Pre-“Sammy” Padalecki. Serial Siamese Twins. A mid-aughts horror delicacy. When you think of 2005’s House of Wax, do you think of Paris Hilton? I do. It’s easy to dismiss the movie because of her presence, not that anything she did or did not do in…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema – Nothing But Trouble

    Saturday Morning Cinema – Nothing But Trouble

    About a 5-minute read I dreamed a dream of Halloween and hoped what I saw was not to be. In a never-ending fever of grotesque and macabre, my fleeting sanity the torment did rob. When I awoke, its presence I felt, though night’s shadows and darkness ran from the dawning sun’s melt. My dream was…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

    Saturday Morning Cinema – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

    God forgot to bless this part of Texas. About a 6-minute read The inescapable heat invaded every corner – there was no escaping its oppression. The passing breeze offered no solace, only bringing more warmth to assault the teens as they wearily stumbled through brambles and the occasional husk of abandoned machinery. Their world had…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema – Sleepy Hollow

    Saturday Morning Cinema – Sleepy Hollow

    Sleepy Hollow kicks off my 2025 spooky season viewing as I let Tim Burton whisk me away to a well-crafted world with unique characters that makes the most of the Headless Horseman legend. What makes Sleepy Hollow such an engrossing watch? It’s the things Tim Burton is so good at.

  • Saturday Morning Cinema – Unforgiven

    Saturday Morning Cinema – Unforgiven

    It’s hard to fathom a movie could contain the celluloid greatness of Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, and Morgan Freeman. But the feat was accomplished in 1992 with the release of Unforgiven, #68 on the AFI’s 100 greatest American films of all time.