Articles by Geoffrey Reiter

Now 250 years old, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral shows off Phillis Wheatley’s skill as a writer as well as her Christian faith.

Star Trek: Picard emphasizes the value and wisdom that only age and experience can provide.

Stephen Atherholt plays poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in the film I Heard the Bells.

There is indeed an affinity to the classical pagan tale in Hadestown, one that tells us much about our own day—especially when compared to the medieval poem Sir Orfeo.

Star Trek’s Lieutenant Uhura was a generous person, a hospitable person, one who extended the hand of fellowship to those around her.

Nosferatu is a relic of a day when people were not afraid to make moral judgments and make their monsters monstrous.

Spider-Man: No Way Home is about a boy becoming a man — and a just one at that.

Jesus’s birth is a breach of human hospitality, not an example of it.

Shang-Chi moved away from the modern “buffered” self toward a recognition of the enchanted “porous” self.

In a variety of ways, The Mysterious Benedict Society series is more emotive and less disciplined than its print counterpart.

In The Mysterious Benedict Society,“going” isn’t intrinsically good or bad: it depends on how you are going…and whom you are going with.

The Mysterious Benedict Society poses deep, perhaps insoluble, questions related to the subject of truthfulness.

The Mysterious Benedict Society insists that true unity proceeds through difference, not in spite or in opposition to difference.

Unlike the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the best Indiana Jones installments present viewers with truly sacred relics.

The Mysterious Benedict Society episode “A Whisper, Not a Shout” shares with its source material an emphasis on the importance of small, seemingly insignificant acts.

Mr. Curtain in The Mysterious Benedict Society series differs from his counterpart in the novel but nicely satirizes the quintessential twenty-first-century tech baron.