Hello! It’s a been quite a while since my last post, and quite a while since I’ve been consistent with posts despite always saying things will get back to normal soon. To those who have stuck around despite that, thank you!! It’s been rather busy around here - I spent several months last year studying for the LSAT, and submitted law school applications a month or two ago. Now that things have calmed down a bit, it seems like the perfect time to share a list of law-themed movi

We lost Bud Cort today. You may know him from Brewster McCloud , the M*A*S*H movie, and of course, Harold and Maude (one of my favorite films of all time). To many people, Mr. Cort is so inextricably linked to the suicide and death-obsessed Harold that his passing invokes an existential crisis. What do you do when such a bright star, a symbol of emerging from the darkness to enter the light, is snuffed out at the mere age of 77? The news has been hard to take. Admittedly, a

The Golden Globes are always a litmus test for what to expect when the Oscar nominations roll around. I was rooting for The Life of Chuck ; a life-affirming, feel-good film that left a profound impact on me. So how did Chuck do at the Golden Globes? Not a single win. In fact, not a single nomination. I shouldn’t judge the winning films (or the nominees) too much, because - confession time - I haven’t seen most of them. Perhaps this fact undermines my credibility… but on the

When you think about what a film will be like before seeing it, do those preconceived ideas affect your opinion of the film while you’re watching? I’ve often found that based on a single image or what little I’ve heard about it, my imagination goes wild and I’ll construct entire moods or plots, forming in my head a film with a very specific feel, tone, or storyline… which most of the time, turns out to be very different from the actual movie. For instance, before I saw In the