A Reasonable Reboot
I don’t really know why we had a reboot of the Spider-Man franchise…oh wait, I do…money. But actually, I think it’s more than…
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…
On Sin, Trauma, and Forgiveness
Catching up on a bit of film-watching and research, I recently watched Oliver Hirschbiegel‘s Five Minutes of Heaven, a 2009 film inspired by…
Dying Multiple Deaths
I’ve been reading quite a bit lately about sin, violence, forgiveness and reconciliation for a book I’m starting to write on the portrayal…
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…
The Heroine’s Journey: Richard’s Pan’s Labyrinth Paper Finally Gets Published
Richard here. After six years of developing and submitting (and re-submitting, and re-submitting) a paper on the menstrual themes in Pan’s Labyrinth, I…
A Past Without a Future…A Future Without a Past
Traveling throughout Southeast Asia, my wife Amy and I have seen labor exploitation up close. On a recent outing in Cambodia, we paid…
