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Twisters 2024 When Kate the storm-chasing genius tells Tyler the tornado wrangler that she never got the chance to execute her plan to stop a …

Pee Wee’s Big Adventure 1985 Pee-Wee Herman as funmaster and prankster of wild joy.  Pee-Wee Herman as one who looks at the desolate moment and …

In Shakespeare’s play Measure for Measure, one character says to another : “The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.”  That line is …

A Hero – 2021 This writeup can also be found at Arts & Faith’s new list of the top 25 films on Crime and Punishment. …

Elmer Gantry – 1960 Dear Elmer Gantry, meet me at the revival meeting.  Do not sit in the preacher’s seat and do not sit in …

The Eight Mountains – 2022 We are supposed to dream big when we imagine a 2 ½ hour film based on an award-winning Italian novel …

Dreamin’ Wild – 2022 What do you remember from your teen years? What if the things you forgot are suddenly remembered by everyone else you …

How did you first love the movies?  Did you begin to love them because you had a special moviegoing experience with a person whom you …

What do we do with films that are defiantly strange? Is strangeness justified in art? It seems right to grapple with that question as we …