Let’s just get this straight off the bat: I’m not a chess player. I am the youngest of four boys, two of whom are chess players. I remember going on family trips when they would play chess in the back of the station wagon…without a board or pieces. I just remember phrases like “Knight to… Continue reading Searching for Bobby Fischer
Category: Movie Recommendations
Pan’s Labyrinth
A Child’s Story of Hope in the Midst of Suffering I often think about something C.S. Lewis wrote in On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature. He said, “When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty,… Continue reading Pan’s Labyrinth
Stranger than Fiction.
Yes, I’m recommending a movie with Will Ferrell in it!
Beautiful Boy & Tweak
Nic Sheff, an insecure kid who hated who he was, tried nearly everything to hide what was inside of him. His path of self-loathing led downwards into drugs and anything that would allow him to feed his addiction. His father, David Sheff, attempted nearly everything he knew to do in his effort to repair the… Continue reading Beautiful Boy & Tweak
Get Low
If it were just for the fact that Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, and Bill Murray were in this movie it would be worth watching. But Get Low is worth watching for a number of other reasons. By the time you get to your own funeral you’ve lost the ability to say your last words to… Continue reading Get Low