by Tom DeWolf | Dec 24, 2021 | Events, Movies, Reviews
“It’s a Wonderful Life isn’t the way life is, it’s the way life should be.” – Frank Capra I’ve thought a lot, and read a lot, about “pilgrimage” over the past few years. I embarked on a huge pilgrimage in late 2019 when I walked 550 miles across Spain on the Camino de...
by Tom DeWolf | Apr 13, 2017 | Infinite Possibilities, Movies, Reviews
This film took my breath away. Literally. I found myself short of breath toward the end. I highly recommend Collateral Beauty. Yep, it got a score of 12% on Rotten Tomatoes. It was savaged by critics. It died at the box office. I don’t watch movies that receive...
by Tom DeWolf | Feb 19, 2017 | Movies, Reviews
I watched the new Oliver Stone film Snowden a few weeks ago. It gave me the creeps. I recognize it’s a Hollywood/Stone version of a story about a guy people consider either a traitor or a hero. It still gave me the creeps. Though Stone’s version of JFK is...
by Tom DeWolf | Feb 8, 2017 | Movies, Reviews
One of the byproducts of living with two young granddaughters is we tend to watch more animated films in our home than we might otherwise. One of the benefits of this reality is that many such movies are teaching some important life lessons that are often missing in...
by Tom DeWolf | Feb 4, 2016 | Movies, Reviews
I feel a special connection to Phillipe Petit, the man who walked back and forth across a wire strung between the twin towers of the World Trade Center for almost an hour; some 1,350 feet above the ground in 1974. In 2008, the documentary film Man On Wire screened at...
by Tom DeWolf | Jun 23, 2015 | Coming to the Table, Gather at the Table, Infinite Possibilities, Movies, Reviews, Trauma and Healing
My oldest granddaughter (age 8) and I went to see Inside Out, the new Disney/Pixar flick, during its opening weekend. In connection with my writing, my study of Trauma Healing and Infinite Possibilities, and my work with Coming to the Table, this is one powerful...
