# greatness (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover greatness. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Breaking Point](https://filmsthatstay.substack.com/p/the-breaking-point) _2026-08-16 · What Stayed With Me · What Stayed With Me_ What Apocalypse Now taught me about horror, madness, and the boundaries we refuse to cross ## [When Great Isn’t the Greatest](https://filmsthatstay.substack.com/p/when-great-isnt-the-greatest) _2026-08-09 · What Stayed With Me · What Stayed With Me_ What The Odyssey and The Departed taught me about defining a director’s magnum opus. ## [The Pursuit of Potential](https://filmsthatstay.substack.com/p/the-pursuit-of-potential) _2026-08-02 · What Stayed With Me · What Stayed With Me_ What Terry Malloy, Jake LaMotta, and my twenties taught me about becoming who we're capable of being. ## [Would I Choose it Anyway?](https://filmsthatstay.substack.com/p/would-i-choose-it-anyway) _2026-07-29 · What Stayed With Me · What Stayed With Me_ How a rewatch of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind left me with a question I couldn't answer. ## [The Odyssey](https://jamesbowman.net/2026/07/the-odyssey/) _2026-07-27 · James Bowman · James Bowman_ Christopher Nolan’s Odysseus would have been unrecognizable to Homer, so obviously is he a man not of his time but, like Robert Oppenheimer or Batman, of ours ## [Pressure](https://jamesbowman.net/2026/07/pressure/) _2026-07-26 · James Bowman · James Bowman_ Hollywood values intelligence and emotional authenticity more than goodness or courage in those it asks us to admire ## [The Search for Connection](https://filmsthatstay.substack.com/p/the-search-for-connection) _2026-07-26 · What Stayed With Me · What Stayed With Me_ What Two Men Named Travis Taught Me About Isolation and Connection. ## [The Weight of Sacrifice](https://filmsthatstay.substack.com/p/the-weight-of-sacrifice) _2026-07-22 · What Stayed With Me · What Stayed With Me_ Reflections on Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey ## [The Bridge Into Adulthood](https://filmsthatstay.substack.com/p/the-bridge-into-adulthood) _2026-07-19 · What Stayed With Me · What Stayed With Me_ Three Jack Nicholson films that changed how I think about adulthood. ## [Welcome to Films That Stay](https://filmsthatstay.substack.com/p/welcome-to-films-that-stay) _2026-07-16 · What Stayed With Me · What Stayed With Me_ Reflections on film, memory, and the ideas that remain after the credits roll. ## [Point once, get highlights (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ITcMHenrTa5o) _2026-07-16 · **Sponsored**_ Get minutes worth watching from a whole game — point once ## [The Magic That Never Leaves Us](https://filmsthatstay.substack.com/p/the-magic-that-never-leaves-us) _2026-07-15 · What Stayed With Me · What Stayed With Me_ Inspired by The Wizard of Oz. ## [What Noir Left Behind](https://filmsthatstay.substack.com/p/what-noir-left-behind) _2026-07-12 · What Stayed With Me · What Stayed With Me_ Inspired by The Big Heat, The Maltese Falcon, and Touch of Evil. ## [Never mind](https://jamesbowman.net/2026/06/never-mind/) _2026-06-30 · James Bowman · James Bowman_ Why do you suppose so many people nowadays seem to have lost the art of changing their minds — about anything? I think I know. From The New Criterion of June, 2026 ## [Disclosure Day](https://jamesbowman.net/2026/06/disclosure-day/) _2026-06-28 · James Bowman · James Bowman_ What a coincidence! The good people in Steven Spielberg’s latest rhapsody on a UFO theme are the same as the news media’s good people (or aliens) and the bad people ditto. ## [Obsession](https://jamesbowman.net/2026/06/obsession/) _2026-06-18 · James Bowman · James Bowman_ The movies are now where we go to be told what to be afraid of — namely, reality. From American Greatness ## [The Devil Wears Prada 2](https://jamesbowman.net/2026/06/the-devil-wears-prada-2/) _2026-06-01 · James Bowman · James Bowman_ “Beauty, artistry, and the very best in human innovation” — where are they to be found if not in a fashion magazine? — From American Greatness ## [Ideological follies](https://jamesbowman.net/2026/05/ideological-follies/) _2026-05-21 · James Bowman · James Bowman_ The habit of ideological thinking is now so engrained in the media and the political culture it has formed that every opinion can now be treated as an ideology and so be held with ideological certainty — From The New Criterion of May, 2026 ## [Project Hail-Mary](https://jamesbowman.net/2026/05/project-hail-mary/) _2026-05-14 · James Bowman · James Bowman_ As usual, I’m afraid, science-fiction struggles vainly to escape from from its comic-book origins. Of course, most people won’t care about that. — From American Greatness of May 14, 2026 ## [Very fine people](https://jamesbowman.net/2026/04/very-fine-people/) _2026-04-30 · James Bowman · James Bowman_ Scandal is only tangentially related to wrong-doing, if any. It is, rather, the media’s license to hate, along with their instruction as to whom you must hate if you don’t want to be hated yourself — from The New Criterion of April, 2026 ## [A recently discovered e-mail in the Donald J. Trump presidential archives](https://jamesbowman.net/2026/04/a-recently-discovered-e-mail-in-the-donald-j-trump-presidential-archives/) _2026-04-12 · James Bowman · James Bowman_ From: H.M. Henry VTo: President TrumpSubject: Advice on war rhetoric. In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility (nothing personal, you understand), but when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger. Stiffen the sinews, conjure up the blood, disguise fair nature with... ## [A Friend Gave You $30 (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Y8e6rTL4GO2T) _2026-04-12 · **Sponsored**_ Sign up, deposit $5 within 30 days, and start investing with expert guidance. ## [Tough Talk](https://jamesbowman.net/2026/03/tough-talk/) _2026-03-31 · James Bowman · James Bowman_ The left in America has staked its little all on the politics of feeling. Right now their only feeling is anger. — From The New Criterion of March, 2026