Seeing and Believing 289 | Simon McQuoid’s Mortal Kombat
Wade and Kevin strive for a flawless victory in their review of Simon McQuoid’s Mortal Kombat. Does it delivery a fatality or a friendship?
Wade and Kevin strive for a flawless victory in their review of Simon McQuoid’s Mortal Kombat. Does it delivery a fatality or a friendship?
Whatever makes me search declassified FBI documents about UFO phenomena is the same thing that keeps me searching the pages of Scripture.
Nobody really had the answers to these questions about the internet, but it was clear there was a lot of venture capital to be raised by pretending you did.
As a Black man, Sam Wilson carries the lineage of America’s broken promise, by both heritage and by lived experience.
But what the writers knew that the viewers did not is that history—as Battlestar understood it—was neither linear nor cyclical. Quite surprisingly, and to the consternation of more than a few, it was Jewish.
Wade and Kevin review a film regarded by many critics as the best directorial one-off, Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter
“I owe you an apology,” the Winter Soldier tells Sam. “I’m sorry.”
We don’t do “once upon a time,” and we don’t get to ask for a fairy godmother to save us; in America, we save ourselves.
Throughout Sunderland’ Til I Die, the club burns through new coaches, players, and strategies attempting easy tweaks and quick fixes. But there is no single problem keeping them from winning.
It is not normal for those with power to lay it down for another’s sake. To those insecure in their power, this feels like surrender. It feels like shame. Humiliation.
Whereas the world of addictive pleasure teaches us to feel, the world of beauty teaches us to sacrifice: to go beyond attention to the self and give attention toward another.
Wade and Kevin catch up with Florian Zeller’s film adaptation of his own play The Father featuring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman.
That’s the thing about this show. Unlike WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s mysteries are probably the least interesting thing about it.
The reality is that the whims of the internet mob are, at best, only occasionally guided by moral clarity and a sense of true justice.
If a character or a story is the Ship of Theseus, how much needs to be reshot, re-edited, cut, arranged, and composed before the original story no longer exists?
Adam Wingard’s “Godzilla vs Kong” movie crashes into the show with Wade Returning along with his thoughts on Zack Snyder’s “Justice League.”
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