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We Should Mourn, Not Laugh, at Broken Marriages
- Culture, Entertainment, Family, Featured, Uncategorized
- August 29, 2025
Parker Snider is a minister and writer based in Birmingham, Ala. Before entering ministry, he worked in policy and communications at both the state and national level. A lifelong movie fan, Snider writes here about film, exploring what on-screen stories reveal about the off-screen world.
Hollywood has long been in the business of minimizing marriage. Every sitcom I’ve ever seen must, it seems, regularly joke about how marriage is a prison, a trap, a why-did-we-ever-get-married bad idea. So it is in “The Roses,” a new release starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman. In “The Roses,” we are thrust immediately into a
READ MORE“Freakier Friday” feels like old Disney. In an age where Disney’s live action arm focuses on big budget Marvel and Star Wars films, as well as remakes of animated classics, “Freakier Friday” is a callback to the days when the studio developed heartfelt, family friendly comedies with moderate budgets. From 1961’s original “Parent Trap” through “George
READ MOREA new adaptation of the H. G. Wells classic “War of the Worlds” hit Amazon Prime this week – and it is a doozy. Already at #2 on the Amazon charts, this version boasts a unique perspective. That perspective? A computer monitor. The entire film is presented as if the audience is watching a recording of a single screen,
READ MORE“Avengers: Endgame,” Marvel’s 2019 conclusion to over a decade of storytelling, earned over $2.7 billion at the global box office. It was a worldwide sensation. Recently, however, Disney’s superhero brand has had trouble at the multiplex. You know that feeling when you stay too long at a party? And you realize, “Wait, I’m not supposed to
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