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  • Saturday Morning Cinema – Bugonia

    Saturday Morning Cinema – Bugonia

    What is Bugonia? It’s a dark world of delightful weirdness with excellent performances and edgy direction. For me, it was an unexpected watch that ended up making my day.

  • Movies I Like Ep. 1: Soldier

    Movies I Like Ep. 1: Soldier

    Soldier is everything good about 90’s sci-fi action, and yet, despite a great cast and a good Hollywood pedigree, it remains a “you had to be there” classic.

  • Saturday Morning Cinema – Network

    Saturday Morning Cinema – Network

    About a 5-minute read Here’s a movie I didn’t expect to go off the rails: Network. Number 64 on the American Film Institute’s 100 Greatest American Films of All Time, this 1976 Sidney Lumet film looked like a peek behind the curtain of television in the Seventies, where, in this reality-adjacent setting, four major networks…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema – Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

    Saturday Morning Cinema – Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

    1991’s Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is a movie steeped in nostalgia, but it is also a weird movie with eccentirc characters. This article explores what makes Prince of Thieves enjoyable and what brings it down.

  • Saturday Morning Cinema – The African Queen

    Saturday Morning Cinema – The African Queen

    Continuing through AFI’s top 100 American movies of all time, we come to number 65, The African Queen. An epic tale about an epic voyage, this film has just as much action behind-the-scenes as on the silver screen.

  • 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…