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  • Saturday Morning Cinema: The Silence of the Lambs

    Saturday Morning Cinema: The Silence of the Lambs

    Watching this movie is like jumping into deep water. You may be a capable swimmer, confident in your abilities, but the watery blackness below hides many terrors. The first plunge into that unknown pushes you beyond your comfort zone.

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: In the Heat of the Night

    Saturday Morning Cinema: In the Heat of the Night

    There is cultural significance to a movie like this, because it holds up a mirror and lets us all know there is endless opportunity to be better.

  • Movies That Surprised – Kingsman: The Secret Service

    Movies That Surprised – Kingsman: The Secret Service

    There are times when you suspect a movie could be fun, but you start watching without expectation. Yet, at the end, you walk away having thoroughly enjoyed yourself for the previous two hours after going through an experience whose imagery resonates after the screen goes dark.

  • Spooky Watch: Night of the Demons

    Spooky Watch: Night of the Demons

    How’s your night going? Mine, because I watched this movie, was weird.

  • Spooky Watch: 28 Days Later

    Spooky Watch: 28 Days Later

    Why in the world would I watch a movie about a highly contagious and deadly virus in a year when a highly contagious and deadly virus is rampaging throughout the world? Because it is October and now is the time to bask in the surreal, the scary, and that which causes a degree of unease.…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: Forrest Gump

    I will embrace the cliché and open with the line, “Mama always said, ‘Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.’” It is one of the truest, most applicable movie lines I have heard during my lifetime. This makes sense, then, that such a line comes from a…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: All the President’s Men

    All the king’s horses and all the king’s men, couldn’t put President Nixon back together again.

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: Modern Times

    Man creates machine. Man becomes machine. Machine takes over the world. Charlie Chaplin also made a really good movie about trying to make it in the world.

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: The Wild Bunch

    Saturday Morning Cinema: The Wild Bunch

    The “Wild West” of American history had to expire at some point. Territorial expansion and growth of government authority, coupled with advancing technology, rang the death knell for an era of lawlessness and frontierism. The Wild Bunch focuses on a point during that time where the United States was still establishing its southern and western…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema – The Apartment

    Saturday Morning Cinema – The Apartment

    Movies are interesting because of the extraordinary stories they tell. Even documentaries often focus on the fantastic exceptions to life’s typical cadence. Viewers can observe and rest at night knowing the content is imaginative creation or, thankfully, not their real-life situation. Since starting through AFI’s Top 100, I have unexpectedly been exposed to perspectives that…