"Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 18:3) I first showed My Neighbor Totoro to my oldest child when she was two. It wasn't the first movie I had attempted to show her, but in all my previous attempts she only ever …
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And coming in, just under the wire for 2018, is my retrospective look at the best movies of 1988. This year is personally significant in that it features Who Framed Roger Rabbit? – the very first movie I have any recollection of seeing in the theatre. Apart from that movie however, every movie from 1988 is one …
Niceness is not something that is generally held up as an upper-tier virtue in society. Instead we just got through another nasty election season consisting of battle-lines drawn, weapons hurled, and an election night that resulted in a "choose-your-own-story" victory narrative in which the only real consensus reached was that we are an increasingly divided …
Since the last time we checked in there has been one huge change in my life with the arrival of my second child. While this change has produced typically chaotic results in my household, the chaos is a small price to pay for the absolute joy of being a father of two. And because correlating …
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The classic conundrum for me as an avid cinephile is how to get your average movie fan to actually like some of my more esoteric favourites. A constant thought exercise for me is trying to figure out how to get the person who thinks Michael Bay’s filmography represents the pinnacle of cinema to watch and …
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