Tag: Lincoln

• Favorite Films of the 2010s

  See also: my favorite books, TV shows, and albums of the 2010s. My initial list for this endeavor had 77 movies. After I barely managed to winnow it down to 50, I just couldn’t figure out how I’d get to that arbitrary yet appealing round number of 10. But once I realized most of the…

  December 10, 2019

  Film

  Arrival, best of, film, Hell Or High Water, Lincoln, lists, Mad Max: Fury Road, Minding the Gap, Spider-Man, Spotlight, The Lego Movie, The Social Network, This Is Martin Bonner

• Favorite Films Of 2012

  With a fortnight now between us and 2012, I’ve had time to consider which films I liked in what I think was overall a weaker year for films than previous ones. Keeping in mind I’ve yet to see a few key films, here (in alphabetical order) are seven movies from last year that grabbed hold of…

  January 14, 2013

  Film

  Les Miserables, Lincoln, Looper, Oslo August 31st, review, The Avengers, The Master, Zero Dark Thirty

• The Weight Of History

  We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.   —Shirley Abbott Today, as on every veterans’ themed day, I thought of my grandfather. A lieutenant in Patton’s…

  May 28, 2012

  Etc., History, Life

  family, FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, Lincoln, Patton, World War II