I am a self-proclaimed sports atheist. I’ll never watch Dr. Who because it seems insane to watch something that has existed longer than most people have, and sports definitely fall into that category. I like stories that have a beginning and an end. You can Read More …
Even if you are not a giant nerd, Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi will mean something to you because the movie features the final performance of a great woman: Carrie Fisher. Fisher was able to embrace and be open about her flaws Read More …
When people say, “If a woman was in charge, things would be better,” I’m always the jerk in the room who says, “No,” because 53% of white women voted for Presidon’t and suppose the woman in charge was Michelle Bachmann. Usually my reviews are optimistic Read More …
“There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”-Galatians 3:28 The Divine Order is a Swiss movie that unfolds in 1971 in a small mountainside town as the country prepares Read More …
The trailer for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri suggests a one-woman army played by Frances McDormand against the town trying to single-handedly wreak vengeance on corruption and venality. Vigilantes act outside of the law because the law is inadequate in the face of or a Read More …
“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.” -Betty Smith Greta Gerwig is an artist with a depth of feeling. She takes the prosaic and infuses it Read More …
I was raised fundamentalist to believe that Catholics were not “real” Christians. Living in New York City, I saw no evidence to the contrary (until I came to Massachusetts), but I still was jealous that Protestants did not have something equivalent to a nun. I Read More …
Thor: Ragnarok redefines an apocalypse. Is it the end of the world or is it harming people to keep toxic traditions alive? The seventeenth Marvel movie and the third and best Thor standalone film is the Snowpiercer of the franchise and rests the responsibility of Read More …
Philomena is an adaptation of a book based on a true story about Martin Sixsmith, an unemployed government adviser, played by Steve Coogan. While trying to find his bearings, a waitress approaches him to ask for help investigating her mother’s story. He isn’t interested until Read More …
Frailty is a drama about the FBI’s hunt for the God’s Hands Killer. A mysterious man waits in one agent’s office one dark and stormy night and says that he knows the identity of the killer. Who is this mysterious man? Is he the killer? Read More …