We should be mindful of the things we do to other people. Cruelties and lies often come back to be repaid in kind. From bad deeds follow alienation, isolation, and emotional distance.
These...
This podcast is a discussion of the merits of Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s new film The Revenant.
It’s an important film, and one that I think every man would benefit...
Here are some of the latest viewings. The World Is Yours (Le Monde Ou Rien) (2018) Director: Romain Gavras For some reason, comedy and crime drama seem to go well together with the right story and...
Here are some of the more interesting choices of the past few weeks. Watching movies is much like trying new dishes: you just have to “consume” them and judge for yourself. The...
I didn’t really know what to call this podcast. It’s a mix of a few different things. I wanted to talk about the movies I reviewed in the last post here, but I also wanted to toss out…
Several years ago I had a client who needed some legal work done. She was an educated and well-adjusted single mother of a young girl. She was normal in every way.
And then something...
How do we process personal tragedies? How does our mind cope with them? And how do we recover our balance in life?
These are some of the serious questions addressed in the 2000 French drama...
The BBC recently ran an article describing how the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger action film The Running Man contained many supposedly accurate predictions of a dystopian future. The article makes...
Leadership Lessons From The Film “Das Boot ... Masculinity; 87 Comments. Quintus Curtius. Quintus can be found at ... You’ve inspired me to watch the movie, Quintus.
In his 1988 memoir Travels, author Michael Crichton recalls the time he spent with actor Sean Connery during the shooting of the film The Great Train Robbery in Ireland in 1978. Crichton, the famed...
[The article I published yesterday on Sean Connery was translated into Portuguese by Mr. Daniel Castro]. Tradução por Daniel Castro. Em suas memórias de 1988 Travels, o autor...
All right. Here are some of the latest. We review Glass (2019), What Still Remains (2018), Barbara (2012), and Goldstone (2016). Glass (2019) Director: M. Night Shyamalan I saw this in...
I’ve seen quite a few lately, along with some decent miniseries productions. But here are the highlights of the movies that most caught my attention. The Old Man And The Gun (2018) Director: ...
In this podcast we discuss three movies: “Good People” (2014), “Smoke and Mirrors” (El Hombre de las Mil Caras)(2016), and the truly unsettling “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”...
In this podcast we provide short reviews of five movies I’ve seen recently: Hell or High Water (2016) Life (2017) Son of a Gun (2014) Black Snow (Nieve Negra) (2017) Michael Clayton (2007) ...
There is a scene in the 1979 film classic Apocalypse Now where Willard and the Chef stop their river patrol boat to collect some mangoes in the jungle. They come face to face with a tiger,...
With some movies, you don’t care so much about the plot as you care about the ride that it takes you on. The Terminator (1984) was one such classic film; Jason Statham’s manic run in Crank...
Escobar: Paradise Lost (2014)
Director: Andrea DiStefano
A mildly absorbing crime melodrama about an innocent Canadian guy named Nick who marries Pablo Escobar’s niece and...
Yes, I’m aware that it’s not yet Sunday. But so what? Why wait a day? Here are some recommendations.
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Oklahoma City (2017)
Director: Barak Goodman
The 1990s seem to have an air of unreality about them now. Looking back, they seem like a time of missed opportunities: failure...
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