by Sean Palmer | Sep 23, 2026 | Opinion
In David Ayer’s film Heart of the Beast, Brad Pitt plays James Belmont, a former Army Special Forces operator who is alone in the Alaskan wilderness with his retired combat dog, Odin. That’s just the way they both want it. Belmont and Odin, both suffering from PTSD...
by Sean Palmer | Sep 15, 2026 | Opinion
When your dad is an American history teacher, your class meets around the clock. My dad both lived through and taught American history. He was a child of the civil rights era and educated my brother and me around coffee tables and turntables as he taught the...
by Sean Palmer | Sep 1, 2026 | Opinion
In late April 2024, Mica Miller was found dead in Lumbar River State Park in North Carolina. Her death, ruled a suicide, is the subject of the new and wildly popular Netflix documentary, Death of the Pastor’s Wife. There is no surprise ending. It’s in the...
by Sean Palmer | Jul 21, 2026 | Opinion
I don’t know if Odysseus went to confession often, but in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, he does at least once. The long-departed, though deceased, King of Ithaca returns home to his bride, Penelope, who has waited twenty years for his return. He has fought Trojans,...
by Sean Palmer | Jul 1, 2026 | Opinion
Milly Alcock is the best thing the film Supergirl has going for it. That should read as praise. Here it reads more like an autopsy. Alcock plays Kara Zor-El, a hard-drinking, wisecracking, bruised survivor, and almost every critic who buried the film stopped first to...
