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4 1/2 Stars

You Can See Everything (2026)

At the strong recommendation of my good friend Myles, the only prior knowledge I had of Nathan Fielder was of his TV series The Rehearsal.

It did take a few episodes to realize the fact that Nathan Fielder was diving more into just what the premise of the show promised (a chance for people to live out scenarios they were, for one reason or another, unable/unwilling to do in real life). This at least gave me some prep for what Fielder (and co-director Lance Oppenheim) might have in store with You Can See Everything, the latest documentary on Elizabeth Holmes (someone I knew very little to nothing about).

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Mark's 21st Century Movie Milestones

Number 13…

In the past 15 years, I’ve been blessed to get to work a lot in my Church’s children’s ministry.

This has included being a camp counselor 11 times, plus another 3 at another Christian Camp. Yet all of this can’t hold a candle to what Rocky Braat has achieved in the film Blood Brother (and continues to achieve).

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5 Stars Movies

Summer of Soul…(or, when the revolution could not be televised) (2021)

Why?

That is the question that was on my mind not long into the documentary Summer of Soul. It continued to grow more and more until the credits began to role. Most of the time, when this one word question is in our heads during a film, it is the beginning of the question “Why was this movie made? It is so bad!”

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4 Stars Movies

Crip Camp (2020)

For nearly a decade, I have truly been blessed with the seven summers I was able to spend a week of being a counselor at a Christian Youth Camp.

The memories are indeed too many: Small group bible lessons, archery, paintball, inside jokes about having too much bread (Wade and Hudson know), starlight devos, my alarm clock being thrown out by my co-counselor, sacrificing a pair of socks for a camper, out door movie nights, having another camper ask if I knew how to talk to girls (my initial response: “No one does.”), the countless nicknames I would give and be given (“The Cap” is the best nickname I have ever gotten).

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0 Stars

The Death of a Nation (2018)

With about twenty or so minutes left in the new Dinesh D’Souza documentary The Death of a Nation, I realized he had changed my view on something that I held very dear to my heart. Until that moment, I was a firm believer in never having your cellphone on during a movie. Well, Mr. D’Souza, congrats, you have changed my belief.

If only I had done that sooner.

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