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A Married Man
John Strickland, a barrister who runs as a labour party candidate argues with a conservative banker that a coal miner ought to earn as much as he, namely, the banker. The banker replies that no law prevents a coal miner becoming a merchant banker. No, says Strickland, but then you wouldn’t give him a […]
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) – 1
[…] sequence {1:59:31-2:00:34} in which Andy and the world are set aright, at least for a time. And having learned the very hardest way of the dire necessity of caring, he will provide as well for his friend Red and their reunion on the gentle sunlit shores of the Pacific. Ah, paradise. written by Roy Anker
Places in the Heart (1984) – 2
[…] the first half of the film, and the close of storm sequence foreshadows one of the most remarkable endings in all of cinema. And that, for sure, is an icon worth hanging on walls everywhere and, yes, in the deep places of the heart. See Reconciliation. written by Roy Anker Places in the Heart 2
Places in the Heart (1984) – 1
[…] long sequence). The same tranquil reassurance continues in the first scene where we meet the Spalding family: Edna (Sally Field), mother and housewife, the cutest ever, and Royce (Roy Baker), father and breadwinner and local sheriff, and two darling children, son Frank and daughter Possum, who is just about as cute as her mother. […]
Lent 2: Christ the Hen
[…] meant watching my favorite TV show, Emergency! I loved that show about two brave paramedics from Squad 51 of the Los Angeles Fire Department. When Johnny and Roy were in danger, my pulse raced. Thanks to my father, who was a real-life volunteer fireman at the time, I even got an old fireman’s helmet […]
Matthew 16:21-28
Proper 17A
[…] future judgement. Illustration Idea The hit HBO show Succession ended with its fourth season in the spring of 2023. It chronicles the media and entertainment mogul Logan Roy and his adult children, sons Kendall and Roman and daughter Shiv (and to a lesser degree, son Connor). As the name of the show suggests, the […]
Superman (1978) – 2
[…] from boredom, especially in church, exited the theater smiling and exultant as I had never imagined possible. Tell him he had just seen and experienced and felt and known the Jesus story—that he finally got it–and he would have called in my mortgage or some such. Now there’s something to ponder. written by Roy Anker
“All Fall Down”
[…] to Risk,” actually left me totally disgusted. Why? Because in searing detail it exposed — using Citigroup as Exhibit A — how some of our country’s best-paid bankers were overrated dopes who had no idea what they were selling, or greedy cynics who did know and turned a blind eye. But it wasn’t only […]
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
[…] for the sheer pleasure of it, especially with today’s widescreen TVs, audio systems, and a new 40th Anniversary Director’s Cut. A power company lineman in northern Indiana, Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) is an average middle-class guy with wife and noisy offspring. And as the opening scenes show, he also likes things that whistle and […]
Psalm 15
Proper 17B
[…] loan. Years ago on the TV sitcom “Happy Days” the character of Fonzie tries to get a loan to start up his own business and so a banker visits him in the Cunningham living room. At one point the banker asks him what his collateral is to support getting a loan and when Fonzie […]
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