Dec 1, 2024
The Barrons call in help for a post-wedding Thanksgiving, the newlyweds show back up, Kat takes in Wiked, and we talk about whether The End of the Affair is catholic literature.
Movies & TV:
Wicked
The Sound of Music
Thelma
Books:
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
Nov 26, 2024
Ladies and gentlemen: Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Barron! The kids are married!! All about the mess of family and guests and rehearsals and speeches and logistics. Also, Gladiator and the young couple as archetypes.
Movies & TV:
Gladiator
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Nov 14, 2024
Katherine is in charge of the booze for the wedding, Mac gets a taste of the “good” life, Reality Bites actually rules, the Aeneid is crazy violent, and pre-advent slipped right past us…did we mention a wedding coming up?
Movies & TV:
Reality Bites
Books:
The Aeneid by Virgil
Nov 7, 2024
We get the chance to adult with our adult children, lots of tennis for Mac, and wedding rehearsal prep for Katherine. Nobody Wants This is sharp, A Room with a View is British, and Katherine has some medieval views of our place in the whole grand scheme of things.
Movies & TV:
Nobody Wants This
A Room with a View
Oct 29, 2024
The Barrons head to Birmingham to heckle Paul Kingsnorth, Mac finds the best pipe shop ever, Goodbye Christopher Robin fails to endear you to any of the characters, and we talk about ways we can resist the machine in our everyday lives.
Movies & TV:
Fools Rush In
Bad Monkey
Goodbye Christopher Robin