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All Things Made New: Living the Lay Vocation

August 7, 2022 Francis X. Maier 13

The following is adapted from July 30 remarks to the 12th annual Napa Institute summer conference. One of Quentin Tarantino’s favorite movies – and I mean this seriously — is the 1975 film Switchblade Sisters. […]

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The End of the ’60s and the celebrity culture of evil

August 30, 2019 Thomas S. Hibbs 13

In her book The White Album (Simon & Schuster, 1979), Joan Didion writes that “the Sixties ended… at the exact moment when word” of the Manson murders circulated. In his current film Once Upon a […]

Film & Music

Tarantino’s bloody moralism and “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood”

August 9, 2019 Titus Techera 18

Quentin Tarantino has spent the last decade rewriting American history. His business is now poetic justice: the oppressed return in time, through Hollywood, to punish their historical oppressors. Inglorious Basterds (2009) had Jews kill Hitler, […]

The Dispatch

Quentin Tarantino’s violent, impressive, and empty love letter to Hollywood

August 5, 2019 Nick Olszyk 9

MPAA Rating: R USCCB Rating: O Reel Rating, 3 out of 5 reels (Disclaimer: Major spoilers ahead.) It is rather rare that a movie is promoted for its director rather than its stars—especially when the […]

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