Climate Change and Apocalypse in Mokoto Shinkai’s Weathering with You
Mokoto Shinkai is not an anthropologist of human sacrifice. He is a storyteller and an artist. But storytellers and artists who are faithful to their mission of…
Mokoto Shinkai is not an anthropologist of human sacrifice. He is a storyteller and an artist. But storytellers and artists who are faithful to their mission of…
Before getting to the The German Lesson, extensive prefatory remarks are needed. All mythology is sacrificial and originates with a real-life scapegoat; a claim René Girard knew…
28 Years Later is a film of which the founding father of the zombie horror film, George Romero, would have been proud. Unlike most modern zombie films,…
We must necessarily be modest about what we can achieve without a sacred context. - Carl Trueman In his D.C. Lecture “The Hour for a New…
Ronald Reagan was a steadfast man of God who stood up for America and the American people against the Soviet Union and international communism during the Cold…
The rebooted Planet of the Apes movies must be among the bleakest and strangest Hollywood blockbusters of the past decade and a half. The three entries before…
Several years ago, Hollywood briefly released a slate of medieval-themed films coming from sizable and talented directors. Films like Green Knight, The Last Duel, Benedetta, and The…
Writers for the movies, I have found, don’t seem to know how to deal with the arts as a dramatic subject. Perhaps due to a lack genuine…
Napoleon Bonaparte is the one dictator that the world has a love-hate relationship. More than petty kings and emperors of the past, Napoleon forcibly seized political power…
Among the more interesting original movies to come out this year was the newest film from Godzilla and Rogue One director Gareth Edwards. It didn’t turn out…
It has been a curious and exciting thing to watch Greta Gerwig’s Barbie turn into one of the largest and most discussed films of the past decade…
Even amidst major releases like Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Indiana Jones, the most talked about movie of the summer is a low-budget indie actioner that has broken every…
In March of 2001, Memento was released in US theaters. The film, initially having a difficult time securing a distributor, became a financial and critical success. Memento…
Indiana Jones is an All-American hero. He is the embodiment of everything America dreams about itself: suave and sophisticated with an adventurous, romantic, and individualistic spirit. He…
I’m old enough to remember when James Cameron’s Avatar was a surprisingly controversial topic of discussion. My Evangelical Tea-Party supporting family regarded the film with relative disdain,…