Review: “Selma”
Selma deserves a Best Picture win, because even with all of its imperfections, it is a story that engages with history honestly and insightfully. It highlights an important part of the civil rights...
View ArticleThe Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Why an 80-year-old children’s book feels newer and more grown-up than the high-tech PG-13 epics recently based on it. Reviewing the Hobbit movies at this point would be, well, pointless. If you care...
View ArticleReview: Going Clear
David Cross once joked that Mormonism was the Scientology of its day. Like a lot of David Cross jokes, the punchline was nothing more than a widely dismissive statement that attempted to brush the two...
View ArticleRemembering Wes Craven
Horror movies were off limits when I was a kid. That’s the way it should be. My mom, in her best intentions, always declared that watching a scary movie would definitely lead to nightmares the...
View ArticleDid Back to the Future Really Predict 9/11?
I know we’re a day late, because the future was yesterday, but I did just watch this “Back to the Future Predicts 9/11″ video. I fancy myself somewhat of a skeptic, but I think I’m sold. Not really,...
View ArticleThe Politics of Monsters
Editors Note: This post isn’t about Mormonism, since it is an unpublished blog for a non-religious publication. However, I think it’s an idea still worth exploring, and since Halloween is around the...
View ArticleStar Wars Needs A Faith Crisis
I don’t know if you’re aware of this, but there’s a new Star Wars coming out next month. Remember Star Wars? It was a 1977 low-budget film from the chronically anti-social merchandising kingpin George...
View ArticleIn His Final Performance, David Bowie Embraced Death
I woke up earlier than usual this morning, only to find that David Bowie died last night, just days after his 69th birthday. I’m devastated. No other musician or pop star filled my life with such joy...
View ArticleSorry to Bother You: The (Human) Body as Technology
This review contains major spoilers for Boots Riley’s 2018 film Sorry to Bother You. It’s well worth the watch, so come back to this after you’ve got to the theater! In the recent film Sorry to Bother...
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