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  • Saturday Morning Cinema: Minority Report

    Saturday Morning Cinema: Minority Report

    Science fiction is a great genre for bombastic social commentary. You can take a singular topic and make a whole world revolve around it. Then, because sci-fi wraps everything in a neat package, the consumers get the thought provoking insights without even realizing it. When Minority Report first came out in 2002, all I saw…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema: Toy Story 3

    Saturday Morning Cinema: Toy Story 3

    With a recent viewing of Toy Story 3, I realized how brutal of a film it is and how the Toy Story films are more than toys getting into mischief and landing in the toy box of the next worthy child.

  • Morning Coffee: This Show is a Struggle

    Morning Coffee: This Show is a Struggle

    There are so many shows to watch! Trying to keep up with the good ones requires careful selection and judicious budgeting of time. Despite that, I’m stuck trudging through the muck that is season 8 of Outlander.

  • Morning Coffee: From (The TV Show)

    Morning Coffee: From (The TV Show)

    After discovering the show From last year, I made quick work of the first three seasons. With season 4 now in the books, there are just as many questions as before, if not more. The situation for the town’s inhabitants is as dire as ever. Yet, did season 4 actually do anything?

  • 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 – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

    Saturday Morning Cinema – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

    God forgot to bless this part of Texas. About a 6-minute read The inescapable heat invaded every corner – there was no escaping its oppression. The passing breeze offered no solace, only bringing more warmth to assault the teens as they wearily stumbled through brambles and the occasional husk of abandoned machinery. Their world had…

  • Saturday Morning Cinema – Sleepy Hollow

    Saturday Morning Cinema – Sleepy Hollow

    Sleepy Hollow kicks off my 2025 spooky season viewing as I let Tim Burton whisk me away to a well-crafted world with unique characters that makes the most of the Headless Horseman legend. What makes Sleepy Hollow such an engrossing watch? It’s the things Tim Burton is so good at.

  • Saturday Morning Cinema – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

    Saturday Morning Cinema – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a well-known, iconic film, with a story and performances that keep the film alive and relevant since its release in 1975. The most memorable character, in name anyway, Nurse Ratched, is cast in pop culture as a diabolical villain. Watching the film, however, rocked that assumption.

  • 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.

  • 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…