Jan 5, 2019
On the Twelfth Day of Christmas, CAPC Gave to Me: Twelve Movie Moments
The movies of 2018 were chock-a-block with enchanting shots.
Jun 28, 2017
Movies Are Prayers by Josh Larsen, Free for CAPC Members
In Movies Are Prayers, Josh Larsen exemplifies how critical engagement with a film can be an act of neighbor-love.
Jun 30, 2016
Love and Friendship : An Ode to the Antihero
While Love and Friendship dishes up the antihero antics with panache, it becomes something truly special when it takes us into unexpected thematic territory.
May 18, 2016
Screwtape in the Wilderness: The Devil in the Details of ‘Last Days in the Desert’
The Jesus portrayed by Ewan McGregor in the the film ‘Last Days in the Desert’ is a new kind of movie Messiah, taking on an all-too-real kind of Devil.
Dec 24, 2015
Stations of Home Alone: Three Ways of Looking at a Scream
Station 4: “Behold our hero squalling into that mirror.”
Nov 3, 2015
Sympathetic Horror and the Undead Past in ‘Crimson Peak’
‘Crimson Peak’ features clear heroes and villains in its cast of characters, but the film’s true antagonist, which bedevils hero and villain alike, is the lurking past with its manifold sins.
Sep 2, 2015
David Foster Wallace and the Chamber of Secrets
Fame always rested uneasily on David Foster Wallace’s brow. By some accounts he hungered for it, but he was also smart enough to know what that unseemly appetite said about him.
Jan 20, 2015
Broadchurch and the Hard Business of the Truth
If there’s another TV mystery whose final reveal of the truth lands with the same crushing impact as this one, then I will readily eat the hat of your choice.
Dec 12, 2014
‘The Look of Silence’: A Voice in the Wilderness
‘The Look of Silence’ guides us closer than many of us have ever been to the squirming heart of human evil.
Oct 29, 2014
Fleshed Out: The Body and THE FLY
“Who will deliver me from this body of death?”—St. Paul
Oct 1, 2014
SNOWPIERCER’s Liturgy of the Machine
If there’s such a thing as an uncanny valley of spirituality, then not only has South Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho discovered it, but his recent film Snowpiercer sets up camp squarely in the center of it.
May 23, 2014
Big Lizard, Puny Humans: The Scale of GODZILLA
In Godzilla’s world we are dwarfed by beings far greater and older than ourselves, and our own best efforts cannot halt oncoming destruction.
May 16, 2014
Getting into Deep Water with the Original Godzilla
One of the chief pleasures of the original Godzilla is its ability to keep one scaly foot planted in pulpy entertainment and the other planted in deeper waters.
Mar 31, 2014
Where the Stars Are Strange: A Review of Noah
Aronofsky intends to transport his audience to a setting very far removed from the one that they first learned about in Sunday school.
Mar 5, 2014
I Am Error: ‘TwitchPlaysPokemon’ and Community
At its core, TwitchPlaysPokemon is a microcosm of the human experience.
Feb 10, 2014
Ones and Zeros: A Reflection on Spike Jonze’s HER
How often, in the name of love, do we try to re-create other people in our own image, expecting them to worship us once we’re finished?