Inception

Since yesterday was my son’s third birthday, I obviously had to shuffle him to bed as early as possible and get out to see Inception with my dad. (Minor spoiler alert.) As I read the film, there seemed to be two major driving forces in the film: one was the question of how you know [...]

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Cuckoo Redeemer

We just rewatched One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest last week. It is an amazing, troubling film, worthy of its five Oscars et al. It is a story of redemption, of deliverance–a story in which Jack Nicholson’s character, R. P. McMurphy, plays a leading role. But what struck me in the film is that for [...]

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