Movies: Top Gun
Most people think of Top Gun as a feel-good military movie about the triumph of the US Military. It is…
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Movies: Elizabethtown
Elizabethtown is a romantic comedy centered around a death and a funeral. The movie opens on the worst day of…
Movies: The Bucket List
Carter Chambers, a blue collar mechanic who gave up his dreams of being a history professor, and Edward Cole, a…
Movie: Taking Chance
When a member of the US military dies in battle, their remains are transferred home for burial through a process…
Movie: My Sister’s Keeper
Anna Fitzgerald’s parents had her in order to save her older sister, Kate, who was dying of cancer. Kate’s cancer…
Documentaries: How to Die in Oregon
How to Die in Oregon opens in Roger Sagner’s living room. He is surrounded by family and friends as he…
Movies: Wit
WIT is a movie that tells the story of Vivian, a brilliant professor who is diagnosed with cancer. Throughout the…
Movie Review: Terms of Endearment
Terms of Endearment begins with a mother’s fear that her daughter has died and ends with the reality of her…
Movie Review: Steel Magnolias
Mom’s trying to manage the caterers, the florists, and all the other hustle and bustle that comes with a wedding…
Documentary Review: The Secret Life of Death
Walter Carter Funeral Home is a 130-year-old business in Sydney Australia that is facing the economic reality of consolidation in…