Self Isolation Film Festival: Fearless
?We passed through death.? I think Peter Weir?s 1993 film Fearless may be a very important film...
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Self Isolation Film Festival: The Town
I don’t know why I love The Town so much. Maybe it’s because it’s so Boston, the...
Self Isolation Film Festival: Planes, Trains & Automobiles
A recent Op-Ed piece in the L.A. Times made reference to our current experience of ?binary confinement? (as opposed to solitary confinement in prisons). That certainly fits for my wife and me?two people isolated (sort of) from...
Self Isolation Film Festival: Superman the Movie
Richard Donner’s epic film Superman the Movie is … “swell,” to quote Clark Kent. While superhero films have advanced in production (well, except for maybe Green Lantern), Donner’s original hero...
Self-Isolation Film Festival: The General
While we fill the days and nights of self-isolation, this is a great time to discover films that we may have overlooked?especially films from long ago. Buster Keaton?s The General, a 1926 silent film, is thought by some,...
Schitt’s Creek: Bloom Where You’re Planted
One minute you are comfortable. You have all you need and then some. You have freedom to go anywhere, anytime, with anyone. Secure and confident in your situation, you spend your days enjoying unlimited opportunities. And then...
Self-Isolation Film Festival: Napoleon Dynamite
“I’ll give you 10 good reasons to watch this film . . . after I show off some sweet dance moves.” Like many people, I have a specific slate of movies I turn to whenever I am bored or want to relax after a long...
Self-Isolation Film Festival: Ralph Breaks the Internet
Life is going along just fine, but then a virus begins spreading, threatening everything and everyone. That is a scary prospect. How is someone supposed to respond to such a crisis? That?s a problem raised in Disney?s Ralph...
Self-Isolation Film Festival: Batman Begins
If I’m being honest, this could be any number of superhero films – Superman the Movie,...
Dumbo: The Elephant in the Room #TBT
Following the relative lack of box office success of Fantasia and Pinocchio and with the country on the verge of entering a World War, Disney needed to churn out something inexpensive and much shorter.? That little movie turned...
Self-Isolation Film Festival: Field of Dreams
When Ray Kinsella hears the whisper and begins plowing up his Iowa cornfield, I can start to feel...
Self-Isolation Film Festival: Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Y?all. One of my all-time favorite movies growing up was Bedknobs and Broomsticks with Angela...
