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A Sanctuary from the Spotlight:
The Lifelong Friendships That Defied the Hollywood Machine “When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The very day that I am writing this, we were all devastated by the news of Sir Patrick Stewart’s passing. For many of us, his monumental legacy is defined by how his work seamlessly fit into our lives, a journey that began with Star Trek: The Next Generation. As Captain Jean-Luc Picard, he

Chase Gifford
Oct 3110 min read


The Odyssey Review: A Generation-Defining Epic of Primal Dread
“Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.” – Homer I’ve written about this before, but anticipation and reality rarely ever live up to our expectations. 2024’s Joker: Folie à Deux was highly anticipated and wound up a meandering mess of a musical whose predecessor somehow produced an Oscar-winning performance by its lead. The Mandalorian and Grogu felt like an overlong episode of the series, doing little to differentiate

Chase Gifford
Jul 164 min read


Nerd Alert Movie Review - The Rip
The Rip is the kind of high-octane, muscular crime thriller Netflix should be building entire weekends around.

Jimmy Palmquist
Jan 312 min read


Movie Review: Oppenheimer
“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” - J. Robert Oppenheimer I’ve said it before many times, when certain filmmakers in...

Chase Gifford
Jul 20, 20234 min read


Movie Review: AIR (Courting a Legend)
“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” - Charles Kettering Ben Affleck the actor is a hit or miss kind of talent. In the...

Chase Gifford
Apr 5, 20234 min read
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