Monthly Archives: October 2020

Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic functions as both a weird Gothic horror and a fairy tale.

To participate in politics in 2020 seems to be an exercise in fear, like the call from Dark in Ray Bardbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes.

Sofial Coppola and A24 bring us On the Rocks with Bill Murray while Ben Wheatley takes a stab at remaking Hitchcock’s Rebecca.

The pandemic may have slowed things down, but we still feel the crush of expectations and demands, perhaps more so while working from home and sensing internal and external pressure to prove that we’re pulling our weight.

What I love about the creation and inclusion of the Enola character is how much she makes sense in the Holmes family and how much she adds to the ethos of the story. 

God’s view of time operates entirely differently from the human view, as His omniscience of all history and future outcomes prevents Him from being negatively affected by any present moment.

Wade and Kevin review Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago Seven and then give us their most anticipated films for the end of 2020.

His life’s work was the common and righteous work of loving those around him until he physically was incapable of serving others.

Under the extreme stress of plagues and environmental disaster, people were undoubtedly looking for someone to blame, which—hmm, that sounds familiar.

Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone could contend for human worth on the basis of a shared imago Dei, a spiritual aspect that provides an inherent value to each individual, while the reboot seems content to regard men and women materialistically.

If we struggle believing the best is yet to come, the first step is acknowledging that not all nostalgia is healthy.

The characters of Dark are stuck in a world that has no end: what they want is an eschaton, where death is undone, and the world can be made new.

The core doctrines of our faith are not mere trappings to make money, as envisioned by Church Tycoon: they are our very reason for existence.

Erin and Hannah wrap up their For God and Country series with a discussion about the power and privilege of voting and a side interview with Alan Noble about the Christian’s call to vote for truth.