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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.…
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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Saturday Morning Cinema – Spartacus
Spartacus sits at number 81 on AFI’s Top 100 American Movies of All Time. Directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier in the top billings, Spartacus tells the story of a slave group fighting for freedom and the Roman zealot who seeks to establish order by squashing the rebellion’s leader, Spartacus.…
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Saturday Morning Cinema: Sunrise
Is it ever possible to be satisfied with what one has, or is the pursuit of the greener grass an innate human characteristic? Is there actually greener grass on the other side? These questions are central in Sunrise.
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Saturday Morning Cinema: Titanic
Here’s the thing about a movie based upon a historical event – you know how it is going to end. No matter how the characters’ stories play out on screen, if the film does not intend to be revisionist, events will unfold as they are documented. Knowing that, there is something to be said for…
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Hey, Man, What Is Up With Easy Rider?
I watched and was spit out out on the other side not knowing which way was up or why I felt hungover without drinking a drop. Easy Rider finds its spot on the AFI Top 100 at number eighty-four, and that is about the temperature it left me at…
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