Killers of the Flower Moon Directed by Martin Scorsese (Paramount, 2023) An “Incompetent”: one who is not legally permitted to freely wield one’s own resources...
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The inevitable analogy of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two as The Empire Strikes Back to Dune: Part One’s Star Wars was recently highlighted by Christopher...
Two new films, The Black Demon and Meg 2: The Trench, are the latest in a six-decade-long string of films about big, bad sharks noshing on people. Why does...
Savior Complex Directed by Jackie Jesko (HBO, 2023) Savior Complex showcases the work of Renee Bach, a homeschooled evangelical Christian from rural Virginia...
Like many people with a clear sense of vocation, actor-producer Angela Sauer can see the signs stretching all the way back to childhood. “I came out of the...
In 1848, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote that capitalism, with its “[c]onstant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social...
Barbie has become one of the top 20 highest grossing movies of all time, surpassing all the Harry Potter films, all but one of the Star Wars films, and joining...
Ahsoka Created by Dave Filoni (Lucasfilm, 2023) Storytelling and spirituality both have a rhythm. Patterns emerge. We find ourselves battling old demons but in...
It’s the heart of the home, a hearth is. An instantly understood symbol of welcome and warmth.By the fire is the coveted seat at a pub, the most romantic table...
The Bear Created by Christopher Storer (FX/Hulu, 2022–present) Protestant theologian Shelly Rambo once wrote, “Trauma is the suffering that does not go away...
