Monthly Archives: January 2022

In The Aviator, Vodolazkin redirects our attention away from history as a sequence of ideological movements and towards the individual actions of human beings, each imbued with eternity.

Station Eleven focuses on the clarity that the pandemic’s disaster affords, and the way people re-make their sense of “home” after the damage.

Ghostbusters: Afterlife depicts what we want to believe about reconciliation and eternal life.

Cast down the mighty. Send the rich away. Four episodes in, we’ve got our plot now.

The Dallas Cowboys should take off their rose-colored, star-shaped glasses, collectively look in the mirror, and be honest with themselves about who they truly are.

Wordle feels like something so weird, wonderful, and pure that it shouldn’t exist on the internet in the Year of Our Lord 2022.

Lana Wachowski, Keanu Reeves, and Carrie-Anne Moss return to the Matrix franchise for a remix of a beloved story. But does the remix work?

Seventeen years later, Commit This to Memory remains a visceral account of one man’s search for that reality, an empty bottle ebenezer reminding us that self-actualization is a messy, painful, and ultimately impossible process. Without help, that is.

Maybe this boss in a galaxy far, far away will actually get it right where others got it wrong.

Like the biblical prophets who spoke truth to those who wielded societal and religious power, the scientific experts were largely ignored as people distracted themselves with foolish, vainglorious pursuits.

Kevin & Sarah Welch-Larson reconvene to discuss their favorite movies of 2021 and contemplate the end of a very strange year.

Stories that don’t end hint that the storyteller is writing aimlessly into the void, and they trap the audience in the world of the story.