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Saturday Morning Cinema: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Legends of the Wild West, those individuals who fueled the mystique of horse-riding gangs robbing banks and trains, or getting in shootouts with posses, make for great storytelling. Those on the wrong side of the law are viewed as masters of the outlaw lifestyle who only meet their end after betrayal or at the hands…

October 2, 2021
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.

April 17, 2021
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.

April 10, 2021
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.

March 22, 2021
Spooky Watch: Night of the Demons

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

October 28, 2020
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.…

October 26, 2020
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…

August 4, 2020
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.

July 29, 2020
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.

July 21, 2020
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…

July 12, 2020