Film Archives

All these struggles to define what art is really boil down to fear—a fear that elitism will strangle joy out of what it is we all enjoy consuming.

The claustrophobic feeling of the not-knowing forces us inside ourselves to examine our own reactions to the scenarios presented in the stories and—in the case of movies—on the screen.

Toy Story 4 models the fact that while farewells may be bittersweet, they can also be hopeful and filled with fondness.

The film’s intentional depiction of an all too real history invites reflection on the nature of the conscience and urgency of becoming a misfit.

After all, to turn inward, to turn away from the world, is that not also a type of violence?

When the grandfather reads the story to his grandson, he invites us all to sit at his knee and listen. He invites us to be children again. 

Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker, and John Milton’s Satan invite us to view them as the heroes of stories that were never intended to be about them.

Our collective superhero fascination reveals a lot about how we define ourselves, Jesus, and our relationship to him.

There’s an insatiable appetite behind this ever-increasing desire for deeper escape and stories that never end.

If you know there is a monster at the end of the story, it takes great bravery to turn those pages.

The benign neglect of Tony Stark and Peter Parker.

Yet the more radical vision of flourishing for women would strike harder at the heart of the film’s concept: what if Molly’s real mistake was in her ultimate goal of power and success?

The Hidden World shows us goodbyes in all their gritty pain and walks us through them.

Godzilla-worship is idolatrous in reality, but this fiction helps us simulate “worship” of a great entity, despite its terror and ability to wound us.

Titanic is in the hot seat for Persuasion‘s Never Seen series finale.

Knock Down the House provides real-life glimpses of what we love most about our favorite political dramas.