I have somehow avoided, for all of my post-18-year-old years, having to serve on a jury. The only […]
Category Archive: Tim Winterstein
“Death is almost certain.” “Death is not always a great evil, Monsieur Champlain.” This exchange at the beginning […]
Diane (2018, streaming on Kanopy) is, at first glance, a straightforward story of a woman (Mary Kay Place) […]
The 23rd Annual Newport Beach Film Festival concluded last week. It was, as always, a great week of […]
To continue a thought from the last thing I wrote, horror movies can, on the one hand, serve […]
I am always interested to see how horror movies treat exorcism, demons, priests (usually), and the threat of […]
I have been reading some more Stanley Hauerwas (this book), which is a dangerous thing to do if […]
Passion plays have been around for a very long time, including perhaps the most famous tourist-draw, the play […]
Euthanasia is a euphemism. They share a Greek root for the word “good,” “eu-.” “Eu-phemism” means, literally, to […]
We like to watch train wrecks, even if we watch them through our splayed fingers. In Not Okay […]