The Warning and the problem of noise It is easy to underestimate The Warning at first glance. Three sisters from Monterrey, Mexico, who first came to attention through a viral Metallica “Enter Sandman” cover as […]
If a man has made it through seminary to the moment of ordination these days, he has likely studied the classical virtue tradition. He has learned that virtue lies between excess and defect. And he […]
Halo, now streaming on Paramount+, is full of fun—and mostly cartoonish—sci-fi action, but also manages to touch on more ambitious themes concerning transhumanism, the relationship between artificial intelligence and human beings, and the corruption of […]
Moon Knight is about justice and vengeance. It is about childhood trauma. It is about mental illness. It is about free will. It is about superheroes using their fists to stop bad guys—although there is […]
When surveying the landscape of opinions about how to navigate the conditions brought on by the pandemic, it is easy to feel overwhelmed, uncertain where to turn for guidance, unclear about whom to trust and […]
The first season of Disney’s The Mandalorian deliberately—and successfully—returns to the tighter storytelling of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. It uses sparse dialogue and gorgeous visuals to set the scene, and keeps the […]
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is not a good movie. Its frenetic pace rushes us through a convoluted plot, any particular moment of which has its own problems. The plausibility of the plot and […]
“You’re a monster!” screams Madison Russell (played by Millie Bobby Brown) in Godzilla: King of the Monsters. She screams this at her mother, Dr. Emma Russell (Vera Farmiga), who has just made the decision to […]
Netflix’s re-imagining of a sci-fi classic shows what does—and does not—change about the human condition when a family is “Lost in Space.” […]
The latest installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is about its villain far more than about its heroes. […]
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