by Michael Parnell | Jun 30, 2017 | Opinion
What do we do about the stranger in our midst? Ralph Neighbor wrote that three types of people inhabit our lives. There are people people, who are our family and close friends. Then there are service people, who get our laundry at the cleaners or our coffee at...
by Michael Parnell | Jun 16, 2017 | Opinion
“It Comes at Night” is a movie that defies classification. It has been called a horror movie, but that is not what it truly is. It is something more. The movie opens with a very sick older man. Boils cover his emaciated body. A father and a teenage son are...
by Michael Parnell | May 26, 2017 | Opinion
Ridley Scott directed a masterpiece in 1979. The first “Alien” movie is still the standard for what is known as science fiction horror. Scott returns to direct his third movie in the franchise. “Alien: Covenant” tells the story of the colony...
by Michael Parnell | May 5, 2017 | Opinion
We all want to think of ourselves as being independent and free. We want to believe we are only responsible for ourselves and no one else. But what if your life and your actions brought consequences in the lives of people that were on the other side of the world from...
by Michael Parnell | Apr 28, 2017 | Opinion
“The Lost City of Z” tells the story of Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), who was an explorer at the early part of the 20th century. Fawcett is a major in the British Army – the son of an army officer who through a bout with the bottle left a son with...
