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12 Angry Men
Abraham Lincoln once said, “Mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
Nov 18, 2025 • Timothy Lawrence
The Master
For Plato, a thing is good insofar as it is real.
Oct 2, 2025 • Travis Kyker
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The real coward of this tale is not Robert Ford, but Jesse James himself.
Oct 2, 2025 • Travis Kyker
It's a Wonderful Life
As Aristotle says in his Ethics, “Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.”
Oct 2, 2025
Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man 2 is the single fullest realization of superhero movies’ potential to be as soulful and moving as they are spectacular and exciting.
Oct 2, 2025 • Timothy Lawrence
The Tree of Life
In terms of theological scope and artistry, The Tree of Life is an essential Christian masterpiece.
Oct 2, 2025
Apocalypse Now: Final Cut
Francis Ford Coppola completes a collage of three works across three art forms that tells nothing less than the story of modern man in the nineteenth…
Oct 2, 2025 • Timothy Lawrence
Children of Men
If there was a film in the last several decades which should have brought moviegoers to their knees, Children of Men was it.
Oct 2, 2025
Psycho
Only one horror story has ever been written and it is Oedipus the Tyrant by Sophocles.
Oct 2, 2025
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