Note: This essay contains spoilers for The Banshees of Inisherin, Calvary, and In Bruges. “The things you’re taught as a child…they never really leave you, do they?” These words could be at home in any […]
Everyone is the hero in their own story, and in our interactions with others we tend to audition for heroic supporting roles in one another’s stories. The correlation between the things we do and the […]
“There are powers beyond darkness at work in this world. Perhaps on days like this, we have little choice but to trust to their designs and surrender our own.” So says Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) in […]
Halfway through the eight episodes of the first season of Amazon Prime’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, the pieces are starting to fall into place. A story that started with such […]
The term “legendarium”—first used by Tolkien to describe those writings in which he labored for much of his life on the mythopoeic backdrop to The Hobbit and, later, The Lord of the Rings—suggests a literary […]
Perhaps you were glued to the news in late June and early July 2018 as the world followed the ultimately successful efforts in northern Thailand to rescue the 12 young boys of a soccer team […]
Note: This essay contains spoilers for Thor: Love and Thunder, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Eternals. “I shouldn’t be alive…unless it was for a reason.” “You’re not getting what the universe is […]
Note: Alive/Vivo is in theaters Tuesday, June 21st only. The year before Covid hit, a Pew study revealed that nearly 7 in 10 US Catholics, including over a third of weekly Mass-goers, believe that the Communion bread and […]
An opening title positions Pixar’s Lightyear as a movie, not within a movie, but within a movie world: the world of the Toy Story movies. The conceit is that we’re watching young Andy’s “favorite movie” […]
The word “dominion” is uttered once in Jurassic World Dominion, in an oblique, irreverent allusion to Genesis 1. “Not only do we lack dominion over nature, we are subordinate to it,” asserts Dr. Ian Malcolm […]
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