The End. Or Is It???
I'm done. I've watched 50 holiday rom-coms since the beginning of November: a few good, a lot bad, almost all cheesy. I have seen mo...
The Banality of Christmas
The sameness really gets to you after a while. A few basic plots are rehashed over and over. The lead actors and actresses look ...
In Praise of Older Leading Ladies
You know one thing I appreciate about Hallmark rom-coms? It's not unusual for the female leads to be in the 30s, 40, or e...
New and Improved! Now includes Hanukkah!
This subtitle is a bit bogus since last year's rom-com-athon included one movie about an interfaith couple and some...
The Worst Kind of Recount
Well, oopsie daisy! I've just realized that I jumped straight from #26 to #28 in counting my movies, so that's a bummer. At this ...
"How Did You Decide To Watch That?"
Among the questions I get most often - especially after watching a real stinker - is how I decide which movies to watch....
The Completist's Dilemma
The problem is, there are too many movies. You see, I am a completist. When I become interested in something, I move pretty quic...
The Good, the Bad, and the Series
This week I watched an entire holiday rom-com series without intending to, but I have no regrets. It was a real pick-me-up...
Rating Movies on the Nap Scale
One significant thing has changed in my life since last year's rom-com-athon: my job. I now work for a pet rescue in the cat...
And So It Begins (Again)
50 movies in 54 days, all of them Christmas romance movies. How hard can that be? Well, I know from last year that it's pretty dar...
Sharon is an experienced writer with her own blog and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's religion blog. A wife and mother to 5 kids, she in on staff with her church and enjoys running, coffee, and good books. A bit of an activist around certain topics (politics, religion, sexuality, gender), Sharon looks to cinema for the empathy and fun it can provide. “I believe art is a gift from a good Creator. Sometimes Christians are suspicious of film, but I find that thoughtful engagement with movies has been a means of personal and spiritual growth for me. I hope my involvement with Zeke helps others to have a similar experience with film!”
