Matt Blazer

[DEAD POETS SOCIETY] There are lovely pauses and beautiful transitional shots; the unhurried storytelling is polished. Peter Weir is still in his mid-forties and the editing is swift, yet this is conservative craftsmanship. (1989)

What the Roberts Court Is Actually Trying to Accomplish It’s not about Trump.

By striking down Donald Trump’s tariffs, the Supreme Court has proved again that it is not driven by partisanship—instead, Chief Justice John Roberts has a much more ambitious goal in mind, Sarah Isgur argues:

[BEETLEJUICE] Delia the sculptor, the madwoman who’s the new lady of the house, is played by the smudge-faced blond Catherine O’Hara, late of SCTV, and the possessor of the freakiest blue-eyed stare since early Gene Wilder. (She has sexy evil eyes.) (1988)

Wake up 2:30 am, trailhead 3:30 am, adrenaline pumping, watch for pumas, scramble up rock & forest, lost! Frenzied rush, heart racing, pushed to limit, can I make it? Wonder, untold beauty, infinite peace. Patagonia, Argentina.

#photography #naturephotography #landscapephotography #bluesky #nature

I just don't think a movie review is fatal. I don't do any great damage to a movie by not liking it, particularly if it's a big movie. If it's a small innovative movie or a small-budget movie, if I don't like it, I generally don't say so anyway. I just don't review the movie.

It is mildly possible this raccoon lives in my home

“Never met a rich man that didn’t have a guilty conscience.” “I already got a guilty conscience… might as well have the money too…” #Tombstone

help someone else get a win

i promise it’s not gonna take away from your wins

YouTube video by BibleProject How God is Both One and Three at the Same Time

If you wonder whether the visual arts can do theology, not just illustrate theology, then wonder no more and watch this marvelous video via the Bible Project on the Trinity.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAvY...

2timothy 1. God calls us to himself and into purpose

@craighorlbeck.bsky.social and a great nit pick on Tin Cup (3 wood, 7 iron). It’s 237 just to carry the water. So, 260ish to the hole.

@craighorlbeck.bsky.social the category the rewatchables is searching for is “Julia or Meryl?”. It’s the rejoinder to Cruise/Hanks.

It is not just the act of violence but the spirit of violence that must be opposed. It is not just the action to harm another which must be opposed but the desire that harm would fall to another. If we do not have the courage to pursue a politics of love, our political heart will be consumed by hate

@sheaserrano.bsky.social did Milo jump out of the car before it landed in the pool? Asking for a friend. Is this the best “put the name of the movie in the movie”? My thought is the bonus that it’s on a trading card only.

Are you a big enough deal that this is fan mail disguised?

[CLOSE ENCOUNTERS] This is one of the peerless moments in movie history—spiritually re­assuring, magical, and funny at the same time. Very few movies have ever hit upon this combination of fantasy and amusement—THE WIZARD OF OZ, perhaps, in a plainer, down-home way. (1977)

Great piece on one of my DEEP personal lore movies.

If you don’t understand Oklahoma, you can’t understand America A Black man like me is not supposed to love Oklahoma. But in studying my home state’s history of violence, theft and wild ambitions, I learned to reckon with its legacy

If you don’t understand Oklahoma, you can’t understand America

When Harrison Ford is Indiana Jones, he's playing on instinct and exhilaration—on all of himself—and we can tune right in to his rascally daring. (1988)

[GHOSTBUSTERS] Murray has a genuine outré gift: he makes you feel that his characters are bums inside—unconcerned and indifferent—and he makes that seem like a kind of grace. (He’s always an onlooker; he won’t commit himself even to being in the movie.) (1984)

I love both but had not realized the similarities.

The Story of scripture in four phrases repeated throughout its pages:

I love you.
I am with you.
Don’t be afraid.
You can come home.

Happy Fourth! I love these words from Washington Square in Philadelphia: "Freedom is a light, for which many men have died in darkness."

My 19 year old sent me a picture of a box yesterday with the sole intent of getting me to say, “what’s in the box!?!?!?” My 16 year old and i watched the Thing and she said, “i didn’t like it. I’m glad i watched it. And it will haunt my dreams.” Kids are a complex, heartbreaking, diamond in life.

I didn’t get it either. I can see it in Substack but i didn’t get the direct email. I assume it’s a substack thing. Usually get a direct email with a link to SS

Cornet!!!!! Reverse!!!!!

No rest? Thats a lot of jumping rope. I did 10 yesterday and almost passed out.

“I never called Edith Lúthien – but she was the source of the story that in time became the chief part of the Silmarillion. But the story has gone crooked, and I am left, and I cannot plead before the inexorable Mandos."

- Tolkien

Sense a gentle but defiant certainty to my call to preach this morning.

Incredible cast. So jealous you got to go.