Leaving #StandByMe and the bracket behind. What movies mean. And, my final 28. Yes, 28. Brackets are stupid.

Novel vs film. Losing friends. Memory. And picking winners.

the future of this show, the differences in the adaptation, Jonathan Safran Foer, what is left behind, duo interpretation, and picking a favorite.

Gordie Lachance, magazine subscriptions, being a writer, being invisible, channeling real life, and enjoying silence.

Groundhog Day Project Day 1384, Veteran fathers, dead brothers, Stephen King's childhood, and clinging to friends to survive.

Groundhog Day Project Day 1383, Groundhog Minute, Movies by Minutes, Ex Machina, Jurassic Park, Top Gun, Great Balls of Fire, making connections, and making peace.

Groundhog Day Project Day 1382, Castle Rock, childhood, Worldwide Church of God, sneaking around, jumping off rooftops, and the end of the world.

Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy; Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey; Mark Danielewski, House of Leaves, Only Revolutions, The Familiar; Stephen King, The Dark Tower, Cell, The Dome; Groundhog Day, Benesh, Izod, Jung, Nietzsche, and my last movie in a theater.

narrowed down to 23-ish.

Silliness, pacifism, being too Christian, and obscure movies.

Movie narration, Elijah Wood's early film career, Roger Ebert's review, and showing versus telling.

Christian reviews, empathy, religion, the Jedi code, nuclear holocaust, and award season.

Roger Ebert, empathy, small towns, deep wounds, and musical adaptations.

All You Need Is Kill, identifying with awful characters, gen x rom coms, Popeye, rewatchability, Dark Star, and confident filmmaking.

Raggedy Ann, Amish clothing, James Ensor, Halloween comics, sequels, and the novelization, Friday the 13th, and camp.

Long shots, sisters, Uncut Gems, Kubrick's fake moon landing, The Master, the romance of Halloween, and The Room.

Jennie talks about a film, the men don't listen, and Ingoldsby has his first bad idea. Plus, a look at the novel's Jenny, and our film within a film of the week: Coed Frenzy from Blow Out.

In which I explain why-- --Sing Street-- --Say Anything-- --Groundhog Day-- --Happy Death Day-- --Birdman-- --Synecdoche, New York-- --is my favorite film.

Theater, Olive's diary, Olive's tattoos, Adele's tiny paintings, immediacy, solipsism, simulacra, and the meaning of names.

Death of a Salesman, the American Dream, toxic productivity, chronemics, mortality, making choices and living with them, and I'm Thinking of Ending Things.