Don’t lecture me at the movies. Dwarfism arguably the surest sign we have for an unloving, merciless god. To afflict any human being with a litany of curses – from the puffy chest, to the sausage-like fingers, to the unmistakable teetering walk of a Weeble.

February 10, 2025. Not quite D-Day, Pearl Harbor, or that dreadful afternoon in Dallas, but close. Damn close. Here, before me, was an image I never thought I’d see, and yes, the scene I never knew I’d been missing: George Kennedy.

Ke Huy Quan is having quite the renaissance. After finding fame as child actor in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Goonies, he made scant appearance for a few years and disappeared from acting altogether from 2002 to 2021.

I’ve heard it said that 2024 was a bad year for movies, but I personally have never believed such a thing exists. There are always good and even great movies to be found in any year, now more than ever