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  • The Princess Bride

    July 31, 2025
    Comedic Film, Fantasy, Film, Romance

    As You Wish – Westley Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while. – Westley Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die – Inigo Montoya Bye bye boys! Have fun storming the castle! – Miracle Max INCONCEIVABLE! – Vizzini A book? –…

  • Singing in the Rain

    July 20, 2025
    Comedic Film, Film, Romance

    I’ve had one motto which I’ve always lived by: Dignity. Always, dignity. – Dan Lockwood Oh, Donny, you couldn’t kiss me like that and not mean it just a teensy weensy bit. – Lina Lamont Meet the greatest actor in the world! I’d rather kiss a tarantula.- Don Lockwood Synopsis and Recommendation Directed by Gene…

  • Master and Margarita

    July 17, 2025
    Fiction, Novel, Psychological Fiction

    “Manuscripts don’t burn.” (P.323) “The man who called himself the master worked feverishly at his novel and the book cast its spell over the unknown woman” (p.157) ‘Think of what it’s like being in my position. Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man down-stairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that,…

  • The Breakfast Club

    July 9, 2025
    Film

    We’re all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it, Synopsis and Recommendation Directed by John Hughes in 1985, “The Breakfast Club” is a quintessential 1980s coming-of-age film that follows five high school students who are forced to spend their Saturday in detention. This experience allows each of these distinctly different individuals…

  • The Kreutzer Sonata

    June 30, 2025
    Fiction, Novella

    “They played Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata,” he finally went on to say. “Do you know the first Presto? You do know it?” he cried. “Ugh! The sonata is a terrible thing. And especially that movement! What is music? What does it do? And why does it have the effect it has? They say music has the…

  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg/ Les Parapluies de Cherbourg

    May 1, 2025
    Film, Psychological Film

    “Mother, he’s leaving. He’ll be away for two years. I can’t live without him. I’ll die.” Synopsis and Recommendation Directed by Jacques Demy and featuring music composed by Michel Legrand, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg follows the story of Geneviève and Guy, a couple in a relationship, set in Paris from 1957 to 1963. The film…

  • The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

    March 18, 2025
    Fiction, Novel

    “The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.” “Self respect is something that can’t be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man’s pretense at it.” Synopsis and Recommendation Written by Ayn Rand in 1943, “The Fountainhead” follows the architect Howard Roark through his journey as…

  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

    March 13, 2025
    Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novella

    “Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place. . . . With us it ain’t like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us.”  “Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little…

  • Groundhog Day

    February 2, 2025
    Comedic Film, Film, Psychological Film, Romance

    What if there is no tomorrow? There wasn’t one today! – Phil Connors Synopsis and Recommendation Directed by Harold Ramis and starring Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell, Groundhog Day follows a pessimistic and sardonic weatherman named Phil who goes with his cameraman and producer to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, for the Groundhog Festival for the fourth year…

  • Cinema Paradiso

    February 1, 2025
    Film, Psychological Film

    Get out of here! Go back to Rome. You’re young and the world is yours. I’m old. I don’t want to hear you talk anymore. I want to hear others talking about you. Don’t come back. Don’t think about us. Don’t look back. Don’t write. Don’t give in to nostalgia. Forget us all. If you…

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