Dec
25
THAT CHRISTMAS FEELING
Originally written during the first COVID Christmas (2020) and first posted on Digital Renegade on 24 November 2021, I decided
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Digital Renegade
Dec
24
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
“Thank God! Cecil Court remains Cecil Court…”
– Graham Greene
Dear Readers/Subscribers,
Well, 2025 has certainly been a tumultuous year
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Dec
23
HEAVEN AND EARTH
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” - Hamlet
Perhaps because
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Dec
21
THE SPIRIT OF WINTER
As it’s the shortest day, I return to the elusive search for the tangible feeling of deep winter magic—
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Dec
21
ALL ALONE FOR CHRISTMAS
Alone in God’s Home
The unwavering popularity of the Home Alone films (Home Alone and Home Alone 2) is
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Dec
19
ODE TO JOHN
For Better, for Worse
I recently wrote a piece about how one subtextual reading of Hitchcock’s Notorious functions as
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Dec
18
BACK FOR GOOD
There are few episodes in the history of television as faultlessly perfect as The Office two-episode Christmas Special, which manages
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Dec
17
OVERLOOKING THE OVERLOOK
Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980) is so embedded in popular culture—probably now more so than ever—that it
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Dec
16
I WON'T SHED A TEAR
“The Bible says, ‘In the midst of life we are in death,’” — Mr. Quidaciolu (Stand By Me).
The tragic irony
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Dec
11
MY BABY SHOT ME DOWN
If Beatrix Kiddo, a.k.a. The Bride, played by Uma Thurman in Quentin Tarantino's martial-arts extravaganza Kill
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