Best Picture Nominees 2025
I have been in a frenzy this awards season, consuming all of the award shows, picking my favorites and checking out movies I’ve never heard of. I’ve even requested seat filler positions hoping to one day join in the fun. I recognize none of this matters in the big picture of our world right now,…
Nickel Boys
Nickel Boys is based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead. It follows the bond of two young African American boys who are sent to an abusive reform school in Florida in the 1960s. While fictional, Nickel Boys is based on true accounts of the horrors of these schools in the Jim Crow…
I’m Still Here
I’m Still Here is based on a true story and the autobiography Ainda Estou Aqui written by Marcelo Paiva. He shares what his family endured during the Brazilian military dictatorship in the early seventies. His father, former congressman Rubens Paiva (Selton Mello) disappears leaving his mother Eunice (Fernanda Torres) to wonder what happened to him…
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my weekly escape
Movie therapy is a phrase I came up with when I first started a few years ago with a goal to see one movie in theaters each week, by myself. I also called it #52in52, and I did it! My inspiration was my dad, who reserved his Friday mornings for the new releases on the big screen and would text me from the theater with his thoughts on the film, and share the new trailers he saw for what was coming soon. I’m happy to get back at it, for me, for him.
Making this once a week isolation trip has become my sort of “me time,” that ensures I’m taking time out to do something for myself. I do cheat every once in awhile and bring someone along for the fun.
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