PG-13 | 1h 45m | Comedy | June 23, 2023 I’ve never understood the attraction to bird-watching; the massive binoculars, the idiosyncratic hat—it leaves me as cold as a Wes Anderson movie. But to each his own, you know? Like, for example, I’ve decided that I’m finally going to indulge a secret hankering and attend some top-fuel drag-racing…
Theater: Staging the World Versus Re-Staging the World
Playwrights create worlds; this we all know. By “world,” I mean the conditions of time, space, and viewpoint depicted in the play that we must accept, if only temporarily, if we are to understand the characters who inhabit that world and the playwright’s point-of-view. Most plays present either a world that needs to be overhauled…
The Perpetual Return: Fidelity in the ‘Odyssey’
What does it mean to return? What does it mean to come home? Home is where one belongs, the people and places that are ours while we are theirs. Yet that belonging comes to its fulness only through our actively choosing it and conforming to the restrictions placed on us by dedication to a people…
Top 5 Civil War Movies
In what will likely be my last in a series of Top 5 war-movie lists, I’ve taken on the unenviable task of paring over two dozen truly excellent motion pictures down to five. If this is my final war Top 5, I’m happy and proud to be going out on such a high note. Since…
Book Review: James Fenelon’s ‘Angels Against the Sun’
In “The Bridges at Toko-ri,” the movie about the Korean War based on James Michener’s novel, Adm. George Tarrant watches as his pilots take off from the pitching deck of a carrier to attack the enemy and asks, “Where do we get such men? They leave this ship and they do their job. … Where do…
Celebrating Those Who Worked and Fought for U.S. Independence
John Singleton Copley (1738–1815), John Trumbull (1756–1843), and Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828) are three of the most important early American artists. Their work captured scenes of colonial, revolutionary, and post-independence America—especially through portraiture of the country’s founding fathers. Patriots Samuel Adams, Dr. Joseph Warren, and John Adams were all from the colony of Massachusetts and played…
Book Review: ‘Knowing What We Know’
Author Simon Winchester is a prolific writer with more than 30 books to his credit. He has a distinctive knack for storytelling that readers will appreciate. He can take a subject, which on the surface could be perceived as weighty, and bring it to life with personal anecdotes and fascinating historical tidbits woven into the…
A Classic MGM Musical: ‘Two Weeks With Love’ (1950)
NR | 1 hr 32 min | musical, comedy, romance| 1950 School is now out across the country, so many American families are using this time to take a short weekend getaway, or even a longer holiday. One classic film which depicts the events of a family’s summer vacation is 1950’s “Two Weeks With Love,”…
Neurologist’s Near-Death Experience Changes His Understanding of Consciousness
Neuropathologist Dr. Peter Cummings was convinced everything about consciousness, including profound near-death experiences (NDEs), could be explained by science and was rooted in the brain—until he had an NDE of his own. Cummings was a career-oriented man who was doing well in his job as a doctor and as an assistant professor at Boston University…
Epoch Watchlist: What to Watch for June 30–July 6
This week, we feature a hilarious whodunit from the ’80s and a deeply moving romance about two souls who seem destined to be together. New Release ‘Past Lives’ When Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo) were kids living in South Korea, they were so close that their parents thought that they would marry…
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