Tag: Reese Witherspoon

  • Annihilation

    Annihilation

    Our podcast this month was originally on A Wrinkle in Time. Then we saw the movie… Tune in to the beginning for Jon’s epic rant, and then stay for a discussion of a movie that’s actually worth talking about: Annihilation. Alex Garland is a prolific writer, ranging from novels (The Beach) to screenplays (28 Days…

  • Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

    Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

    Grief happens on a spectrum between two poles. At one extreme, painful memories and raw emotions are stuffed deep inside and buried under layer after layer of thick callous. Any twinge of sadness that manages to work its way through is quickly strangled, along with whatever part of our humanity it attached itself to. On…

  • Sing

    Sing

    Buster Moon desperately wants to save his theater… and himself. When he was a young koala, his parents took him to see a stage production in which a sensational Suffolk sheep named Nana Noodleman (voiced by Jennifer Hudson) sang about “finding a way home…” and “carrying a weight” as she performed a graceful, operatic rendition…

  • The Good Lie

    The Good Lie

    In 1983 a civil war broke out in Sudan between the North and South regions. This was settled, but then followed by a second civil war in 1987. More than 2 million people have died in this conflict but, like so much war in the world today, the stories of human tragedy and suffering are…

  • Oscars 2015 – Who Should Win?

    Oscars 2015 – Who Should Win?

    What a great year for movies.  Will the creative well ever run dry?  Somehow, great films continue to come out every year, and 2014 had even more than usual.  Now comes the time to honor them. I’ve always been a fan of the Oscars.  I’ve loved the ceremony since I was a kid.  This is…