What are your favorite "comfort films?"

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What makes a coward? What makes a hero? It is 1966. We are at the University of Texas in Austin. It is just before noon. There is a man on the top deck of th...

The movie Parasite won Best Picture 2020. Not sure I agree, but I could probably say that about many Best Pictures over previous years. I'm not trying to say...

Watch Klaus.

Short Documentary on Netflix. Imagine a group of American Muslims born and raised in Texas. A non-Muslim kid at school becomes their friend. They grow togeth...

Joker hears a tune in his head like Edgar Allen Poe’s King of the Ghouls whose bosom swells and rolls as he yells and dances merrily...

I was reminded, so I looked and then found one of my old pieces published in The Chalcedon Report back in 2002. I remember that I was responding to a negativ...

What is your taste for satire? Whatever it is, there are no small slices available in the movie, The Death of Stalin. To say this movie, inspired by the grap...

Commentary and a link to the Screenfish Podcast

The following short story is what I wrote as my second entry into the NYC Midnight Short Story Tournament. This heat required three elements: An Action Adven...

Currently streaming on Netflix. This was a creepy little venture. A group of friends are invited to a dinner party in the swanky hills of Hollywood. The movi...

Max and I went to see Avengers: Endgame and really enjoyed it. This kid is a lot of fun to watch a movie like this with. He gets excited during the exciting...

The following short story is what I wrote as my first entry into the NYC Midnight Short Story Tournament. The heat I was in required three elements: A comedy...

In 1949 George Orwell was wrong. Not about his title but he missed entitlement We aren’t afraid of screens watching us We are afraid they are not Fear does n...

*SPOILERS* Finally watched Short Term 12 on Amazon Prime Video last night. It’s been in my queue for quite a while. Wow. This film has been talked about a lo...

It is obvious that our elected officials cannot seem to agree about walls but Samsung just revealed theirs. This new item also proves Ray Bradbury right aga...

I had the great pleasure of talking this movie over with Steve Norton on his podcast https://screenfish.net . Check out our discussion here: https://screenfi...

We went to see They Shall Not Grow Old the other afternoon. It was 4 o'clock on a Monday and I figured the theater would be empty. It was not. There is inte...

In 2016, HBO decided to make a long running adult-themed series called Westworld, based on the ideas of Michael Crichton. In fact, Crichton is credited with w...