With this week’s wrap of TNT’s long running series Leverage, we thought we’d repost our interview with one of the writers who helped Leverage gain such popularity. Jessica Rieder lists the writers, shows, films, and musicians who have most deeply influenced her life.
Few of us will ever get an invitation to an early screening of our life’s work like George did. Yet we will all appear before the judgment seat of Christ. To be a two handed warrior is to live for that heavenly red carpet affair, not its pale imitation at the Kodak theatre. Part 3 of our annual repost of one of the most read THW series.
Part 2 of annual repost of most read series in THW’s brief history:
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) provides a wonderful expression of the complicated interplay between modern Physicalism and Idealism as life-interpreting stories in the life of its main character, George Bailey.
Like George Bailey and Ricky Gervais, we all eventually find ourselves wondering: Is there a reward for knowing and trying to do the right thing? (Either in heaven or on earth) Or, is it all a waste of time?
Frank Capra’s masterpiece is not just a great Christmas movie, it is one of the ten best films ever made.
A young girl’s wish leads to mysterious abandoned house and a maybe a Christmas angel (played by Touched by an Angel star, Della Reese.) Act One graduate Andrea Gyertson Nasfell’s second Christmas movie, after Christmas with a Capital C (2011).
While Alfonso Cuarón’s film adaptation of P.D. James’ novel strips most of the overtly Christian images from the story, there is no missing the fact that we are confronted the tale of a miraculously pregnant unwed mother and her reluctant protector set amidst the most horrific violence an empire can throw at them: in short, the Christmas story.
Alfonso Cuarón’s masterpiece confronts us with a tale of a miraculously pregnant unwed mother and her reluctant protector set amidst the most horrific violence an empire can throw at them: in short, a stark retelling of the Christmas story.
Joyeux Noel (French for ‘Merry Christmas.’ U.S. release in 2006) The remarkable true story of the ‘Christmas Truce’ of 1914. Christmas Eve during world War I, the Germans, French, and Scottish fraternize and get to know the men who live on the opposite side of a brutal war, in what became a true lesson of humanity.
Can’t get enough of Chevy Chase on Community? This is the movie for you. The Griswold family’s plan for a big Christmas turns out to be “nuts’?
An injured reindeer opens the door to redemption for the grieving daughter of an impoverished farmer, but could he really be one of Santa’s own?
Samuel Goldwyn’s romantic comedy about a Bishop’s fundraising prayer that nets a lot more than cash. Cary Grant plays the angel with more on his mind than money.