Victory With (A Sappy) Heart
As a sports fan, I am well aware of games’ ability to bring people together and create disharmony. For every story of cooperation…
A Cinematic Game Changer?
Unless you’ve been in a coma for over a year, you are probably familiar with James Cameron‘s latest film, Avatar. Touted as the…
A Complex Evil
I recently took a break from my Christmas movie bonanza with all its images of love and peace and togetherness to watch Gomorrah,…
He Loves to Fly and It Shows
Throughout this semester, I have frequently referenced an NPR interview with film scholar David Thomson in which he discussed how desperate times often…
Tear Me Down: Why Hedwig still Rocks Twenty Years after the Wall
Check out Richard Lindsay’s review of Hedwig and the Angry Inch after the jump.
A Fate Worse Than Death?
Roland Emmerich’s disaster films are escapist fantasies that imagine how we humans will respond in the face of certain (almost) global destruction. As…
The World’s Dead, But At Least the Family Survived
There’s an interesting thread to Roland Emmerich’s disaster films. Against the backdrop of alien invasions or global warming is the story of geographically…
Jesus, This Was Boring…
“But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your…
They Killed Sister Dorothy
“Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13) “Then he said to them…