Michael DeNobile's Movie Reviews

A REFLECTION OF SEASON 1 OF THE GOOD DOCTOR This is my first reflection of a television series, but it won't be the last. Not very often does a TV show capture the rawness of being human. Not very often does a TV show get real with its audience. TV has been ruled by the sitcom since the 1980s, situational comedies that ultimately fall short of capturing the complexity and authenticity of the human experience. They give us a laugh and they have their place, but where they fall short is continually challenging us and the way we see the world around us. When a show gives us insight in a realm of our world that is meant to be unemotional, nonhuman, and insensitive with morally ambiguous characters we wish we could know personally in our lives, it becomes a buffet of entertainment in our binge watching hulu universe. When celebrating diversity isn't a cheesy Saturday morning cartoon and when they present both sides of controversial situations, that type of show draws you in...

Originally published March 2016. Movie seen at Oswego 7 Cinemas in Oswego, NY. A REFLECTION AFTER WATCHING THE MOVIE MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN Michael DeNobile reviews the 2016 drama Miracles From Heaven, and its themes of religion, illness, and family. Why would a benevolent God allow His people, especially innocent children, suffer? Michael DeNobile admits that he has struggled with this very question since elementary school. When you're nine years old and faced with death, a parent, grandparent, or in Michael DeNobile’s case, a great-grandmother, the first cut is the deepest. As life goes on the wounds pile up: you discover your parents are not infallible superheroes, you are bullied, you heart is broken the first, second and third time, good friends from college die young, your dreams are deferred, your cousins who are not that much older than you are diagnosed with cancer and one dies while one struggles to survive, your 15yo student is struck and killed by an SUV, you watch ...