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Pets and pegs: some of the “good things”
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pveugelaers
Two weeks ago I could not find my peg bag. I thought I had lost it—forever. The loss reminded me of when I lost my cat. The loss also reminded me of loss in The Secret Life of Pets (2016, out now on DVD). This film is about, as the title suggests, the “secret life”…
As good as it gets this Christmas
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pveugelaers
Christmas is not a bed of roses. “Merry Christmas” is not merry for some. The infectious, good natured comedy As Good as It Gets (1997) is apt viewing because Merry Christmas is a ‘broken hallelujah’. Though not a real Christmas movie, it even contains some profanity so is hardly Christ-mas strictly speaking, it’s got that…
Utopia and golfer’s paradise
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pveugelaers
Recently, I happened to channel surf to a Christian channel. A Christian or faith-based movie happened to be starting so I decided to watch it. So the film was Seven Days in Utopia (2011, USA). It’s about golfer’s paradise. One may long for golfing success which would be paradise. The money, the fame, the adulation.…
Sully : ‘No one dies today’
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pveugelaers
No one dies today is a theme of director Clint Eastwood’s latest film Sully (2016). There are other ideas competing. Sully is typically Eastwood on the issues, but in a far more subtle way than his Million Dollar Baby. The idea remains the same. Logistics, technicalities and rules and regulations get in the way of…
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