I just finished watching Finch (2021), directed by Miguel Sapochnik and written by Craig Luck and Ivor Powell. It stars Tom Hanks as Finch and Caleb Landry Jones as Jeff, a robot Finch builds to care for his dog after he’s gone. (You can see more about it here on IMDb or watch it on Apple TV+.) I thought IContinueContinue reading “Old Dogs and the End of the Road: Finch (2021)”
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2026: A Cat Oddity
Funny how muscle memory works. This afternoon I was running a little containment drill in the laundry room — we have three orange kittens who treat every cracked door like an escape hatch — and somewhere in the middle of it, 1977 walked back in. Not as a thought. As a feeling in my hands.ContinueContinue reading “2026: A Cat Oddity”
Walking the Long Road from The Shire: Remembering ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’
I remember sitting in the theater in December of 2001, not fully aware that something formative was unfolding before me. The Shire appeared on screen, warm and unhurried, a place both fantastical and familiar, like a memory I had yet to have. Only later did it become clear that The Fellowship of the Ring, first releasedContinueContinue reading “Walking the Long Road from The Shire: Remembering ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’”
Walking the Long Road Through Shadow: Remembering ‘The Two Towers’
By the time The Two Towers arrived on December 18, 2002, the road no longer felt new. The wonder of Middle-earth remained, but it was tempered by strain, uncertainty, and the first true shadows of conflict. Helm’s Deep at nightfall, awaiting the battle to come. Unlike The Fellowship of the Ring, which introduced us to the Shire’s warmthContinueContinue reading “Walking the Long Road Through Shadow: Remembering ‘The Two Towers’”
Observing an Anniversary: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
Every journey eventually asks its price. When The Battle of the Five Armies was released on December 17, 2014, it brought Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy1 to its conclusion. Not with riddles or songs, but with fire, steel, and reckoning. This final chapter is less about discovery and more about consequence, less about setting out and more aboutContinueContinue reading “Observing an Anniversary: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)”