Scrolling through Netflix recently these are some of the movie titles I saw. The Hunger games, Zombieland, World War Z, I Am Legend, 2012, Pandemic, Alien Arrival. What do all these films have in common? They all have something to do with the end of the world as we know it
I saw the movie 3 Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri on an airplane recently. I was enjoying the film and then all of a sudden, it just ended. Talking with a friend who is a film studies teacher he explained to me why it’s a masterful ending. I understood what
When my youngest son was 18 years old he asked me a question I wasn’t prepared for. It was a question I hadn’t heard from my oldest son when he was 18 or from my two girls when they were 18 either. The question was this; “Dad do you
The college football season is underway. 164 college football teams played games this past weekend. How exciting is that? However, consider that of those 164 teams, 82 of them ended with a loss. Hopes for an undefeated season? Gone. Their shot at a national championship? On life support after
Every year around Halloween there is the annual replaying of scary movies on TV; Friday the 13th, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street. These slasher films are part of our collective cultural consciousness. Most of us have seen at least one of these. They’re some of the highest grossing films
