Film Archives

Christopher Nolan’s movie gives the viewer the opportunity to envision ethical hospitality and reimagine it in a contemporary context.

We need to admit that apart from God’s grace, to some degree we are all Leonard Shelby. 

Can fictional art and entertainment actually spark transformation and transcendence?

Alice Rohrwacher’s film is a hypnotic portrait of a Romantic soul searching for transcendence in a world evaporated of it.

American Christians should follow the example of Odysseus’s hosts and love our immigrant neighbors.

Kane Parsons’ horror hit exposes the fundamental inhumanity inherent in the modern American experience.

Christopher Nolan offers a gentler, if no less provocative, exploration of humanity at the end of its scientific abilities.

Why does this story continue to appeal to us? What does this latest version say about both the filmmaker and us?

Gina Dalfonzo’s new book considers how flawed movie characters can teach us about our own fallen natures.

Alex Garland’s 2018 sci-fi/horror film reminds us that the world contains powers that refute our modern rationality.

Why do so many of us still desperately want to believe in Michael Jackson?

You don’t wait for institutions to become trustworthy, or people to become good, or the city to become clean before deciding whether it’s worth fighting for.

David Lowery’s Arthurian tale reveals that humanity’s rational mastery over the earth is a self-satisfied illusion.

Mother Mary declares that the modern age is not so impervious to the spiritual as it would like to think.

The game assumes the audience already understands the dangers built into the Bond archetype, and then it moves beyond them.

Bryan Johnson is an extreme example of body/mind duality, and his religious commitment to biological health should be heeded as a warning.