Context: The Lion King came out when I was a teenager. It was the first movie I ever cried watching. I’ve seen it more times than I can count. Context Continued: My husband and I have a mantra of mocking English as a terrible language. We spend so much time poking fun and sending jabs […]
Category: Reviews
Squid Games
J. Credence Review: Squid Games Everyone is talking about it, so I watched this TV series for you. Classified as a drama, thriller, horror fiction tv show, this fictitious game gives people in financial debt catastrophe the opportunity of reparation via bloody versions of Korean childrens games. Death versus the value of human life is […]
(Jeremy Sharp – Podcast Review) The “Aftermath” episode of “The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill” [podcast] is extremely accurate of what it’s like coming out of a cult. 15 years later with therapy I still have a hard time sleeping because of the trauma. If you were in it, it’s okay and healthy to […]
When Dreams Fade
It’s a Wonderful Life Just about every year about this time, I subject myself to watching the black & white classic, It’s a Wonderful Life, and each year as I identify so closely to George Bailey’s life path, I find tears forming for the man who sacrifices his dreams and ambitions to benefit others, eventually […]
Casablanca
When somebody asks what my favorite movie is, I typically respond, Casablanca. Perhaps you can see why from the 1942 trailer. “If you are looking for adventure, you will find it in Casablanca. City of hope and despair located in French Morocco in North Africa, the meeting place of adventurers, fugitives, criminals, refugees, lured into […]
A River Runs Though It
(Norman Maclean, 1976) This is one of my all-time favorite books (and movie). I first came across it in one of my family therapy classes & have read the book and watched the movie several times. The story revolves around two brothers, their parents, and the choices they make, leading them down very different paths, […]
