by Matthew | Feb 2, 2022 | Christianity, Movies and TV
“What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same and nothing mattered?” So asks Bill Murray’s jaded meteorologist Phil Connors in the 1993 film Groundhog Day, after realizing that he is inexplicably trapped in...
by Matthew | Dec 4, 2021 | Movies and TV
Left to right: Beulah Bondi, Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Elizabeth Patterson, and Sterling Holloway in Remember the Night What if I told you there was a holiday themed film from Hollywood’s golden age that manages to combine slapstick comedy and romantic...
by Matthew | Nov 22, 2021 | Leadership, Movies and TV, Sports
Mayberry, USA: Local sheriff calls his son out at the plate during a baseball game. Hometown crowd is furious. Politics is downstream from culture, so they say. And few parts of culture influence our perception of politics and government more than sports. From 19th...
by Matthew | May 11, 2021 | Movies and TV, Writing
Timothy Hutton (standing) as Archie Goodwin and Maury Chaykin as Nero Wolfe in an episode of A Nero Wolfe Mystery, which ran for 2 seasons on A&E in the early 2000s, and is still considered the finest and most faithful adaptation of the canon. In the shuffle of...
by Matthew | Oct 29, 2020 | Media, Movies and TV
Disclaimer and spoiler alert: Both of the movies which I am about to discuss are far too complex to be reduced to one theme. Books can and have been written to tease out all the layers in Hitchcock’s filmography, this little essay is a focused attempt to think about...
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