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  • Movies I Like Ep. 3: 30 Days of Night

    Movies I Like Ep. 3: 30 Days of Night

    Movies do not necessarily need to have a heavy emotional impact or be action spectacles to leave a lasting impression. Sometimes, the thoughts they evoke and their presentation is enough to stick with, or haunt, you. 2007’s 30 Days of Night is one of those films. Here’s why it’s a movie I like…

  • Movies I Like Ep. 2: Ronin

    Movies I Like Ep. 2: Ronin

    Ronin is a 1998 action drama starring Robert DeNiro and a high profile supporting cast. The vehicular action is legendary in a movie that moves as fast as the cars. Think of Ronin as a classier Fast & Furious.

  • 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.