Christopher Nolan loves to play with time. He’s been doing it for a while now in his films. Most notably with Memento, Inception,...

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...

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

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

*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...

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

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

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...