Illinois: Land of Abe Lincoln, the Vampire Hunter
What studio would take that kind of risk on a title that so clearly sounds like a joke?
Why Christians Should Watch KPop Demon Hunters
“KPop Demon Hunters” makes me realize how often I mistake other broken people for my real Foe.
Is there a god of Cars?
God the Creator, Mitsubishi the Manufacturer.
Thunderbolts* (2025): A Strangely Tender Return to Competence
What Thunderbolts* represents is faith rewarded, a return (even briefly) to a tradition of blockbuster competence that seemed lost to a proliferation of nightmarishly digital and dumbly unfunny slop.
Movie #5: A Preliminary Response to The Brutalist
Production of more art and beauty cannot serve as the only available response to art and beauty around us.
Revisiting the Scariest Christmas Movie of My Childhood
But eight-year-old me hadn’t learned about rhetorical analysis yet, so instead, I ran out of the room whenever that scene came on.
The Good Will Hunting Problem
What should we do with good art made by bad people?
I’m Obsessed with ‘The Lighthouse’
I felt alive when I thought about Willem Dafoe’s craggy face and Robert Pattinson’s bristly mustache. I knew I would love this movie.
Down the Aperture
I want to believe it was by accident.
‘The Iron Claw’ Wrecked Me and I Don’t Think I’ll Ever Recover
As my girlfriend has put it, it has quickly become my Roman Empire.
