A Response to Conservative Misreadings of ‘Elysium’
There’s not much I can add to Ryan Parker’s review of Elysium. I probably liked the film better than he did, but also…
Jesus and John Lennon: Misremembered Messiahs
I had the opportunity to give a talk at the PSR Sacred Snapshots event in Berkeley on April 20th about John Lennon as…
Cecil B. DeMille and Roy’s Rock
In 1958, Malcolm Boyd, an Episcopal priest and former Hollywood writer, soon to be known as author of the bestselling prayer book Are…
More on ‘Beasts’
A friend sent me a “making-of” featurette for Beasts of the Southern Wild, the incredible first feature by Benh Zeitlin and the New…
Classic Documentary: Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
In 1993 as a freshman at the University of Louisville, the gay community I took my first, tentative steps toward coming out into…
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Every generation, by virtue of being born into a historical continuum is burdened by the sins of the fathers as it is blessed…
Somebody’s Got To Review Prometheus!
Ryan and Amy are finishing up a week in a Southeast Asian paradise with little or no contact with the outside world. This…
Dude, You Are Totally Into Religion
Maybe you’ve heard about it in the traditional media or stumbled on it on YouTube, but one of the hottest viral videos on…
The New Snow White: Like Disney, But With More Skull Crushing
Richard here. There comes a point–maybe it’s after studying a bunch of obscure films for a graduate degree–that you discover you’re completely culturally…