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July 2022

July 25, 2022

Bright Light City Gonna Set My Soul On Fire: I watch Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis”

I had to watch this thing, even though I didn't know what interesting thing there...

March 2022

March 12, 2022

I watch Germany’s Oscar entry, “Great Freedom”

for America: The new German historical drama “Great Freedom” opens with surveillance footage of a...

January 2022

January 20, 2022

“The Gay Christian Drinking Game”: My new book excerpted at Christians for Social Action

plus a brief interview: I am a recovering alcoholic; by God’s unexpected mercy I’ve been...

March 2021

March 22, 2021

The Stupid History: A short movie note

You guys, sometimes I get tired of being a self-parody. But then I watch something...

August 2019

August 23, 2019

Against Storytelling: My tribute to Pasolini’s famously-unwatchable “Salo”

at America magazine: There are 13 directors whose films are recommended by the Vatican for...

July 2019

July 17, 2019

From the Harlem Renaissance to the Overlook Hotel: Short book notes

Dorothy West, The Living Is Easy: The reductive way to describe this soapy tale of...

June 2019

June 02, 2019

Raissa Maritain : Souffrance :: me : Sleaziness

Yesterday I finished Brenna Moore's Sacred Dread: Raïssa Maritain, the Allure of Suffering, and the...

March 2019

March 07, 2019

The Shortest, Gladdest Daze of Life: Brief movie reviews

Primal Fear: A 1996 suspense flick that feels more late-'80s. Richard Gere plays a transcendantly...

February 2019

February 15, 2019

Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door: Some notes on Mary of Egypt

If you are up-front about your experience of either addiction, or let's say marginalized sexuality,...

January 2019

January 10, 2019

I Shall Do Thee Mischief in The Anvil: I watch “Cruising”

Cruising, the 1980 sleaze thriller where Al Pacino goes undercover in the New York leather/s&m...

January 07, 2019

“Confession in America”: I review a history of an individualist country

and her Church: In the 2013 Joseph Gordon-Levitt romantic comedy Don Jon, the porn-obsessed title...

April 2018

April 13, 2018

Double Exposure: Notes on “Weiner”

This is a documentary about Anthony Weiner's 2013 campaign for mayor of New York City....

March 2018

March 03, 2018

This Is an Amazing Retrospective Look at Jim and Tammy Faye Baker

and American religion, by Martyn Jones in the Weekly Standard: Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker...

February 2018

February 08, 2018

“The Body & Society” Notes Part… 6 I Think: Blessed Are the Sleazoids

A book about the special honor accorded virgins, celibates, and others who renounced sex...

February 05, 2018

“The Body & Society” Notes Pt 5: The Slave as Temple

On Saturday I ended up at a special Mass at which they blessed plaques honoring...

December 2017

December 13, 2017

Work Is a Four-Letter Word: I review “The Animators”

at First Things: It may be gauche to say that novels should be moral tales;...

November 2017

November 14, 2017

Let Him Be Filthy Still: “Wise Blood” & “Home”

By coincidence I read Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood for the first time right before reading...

October 2017

October 31, 2017

Catholic Horror and the Two Theologies of “The Witch”

A couple notes of Halloweenery for you. First, I did a piece for a Scottish...

July 2017

July 24, 2017

“Theology of the Booty”: I review a novel about pirate-utopians

at First Things: A few years ago, the website You Had One Job posted a...

April 2017

April 25, 2017

What If We Remade “I Confess”… But Sleazy?: And more movie notes

Wow, guys, this is a lot. Strap in. A Cottage on Dartmoor: British silent revenge...

March 2017

March 20, 2017

Work Is a Four-Letter Word: Short movie notes

Let's do this one from worst to best, yes? Or no, "best" isn't what I...

March 15, 2017

“Piety and Hunger”: Nice intro essay on “Kristin Lavransdatter”

why not start your journey w/Kristin during Lent? Undset was an obsessive researcher, and her...

January 2017

January 24, 2017

“‘Roe’s’ Missing Stories”: I’m at First Things

playwatching: Roe, the new play from Lisa Loomer about the woman at the heart of...

October 2016

October 25, 2016

More Sex Ed Thoughts Plus Two Disreputable Songs

I'm not especially satisfied with that post I did about sex ed, and this email...

October 18, 2016

Sex Ed in the Renaissance Tavern

Over the weekend I drove to a wedding with a bunch of strangers. We got...

September 2016

September 18, 2016

Doomed Queen and Beaten Champion: Concert review, Tristen & the Mountain Goats

A few weeks ago I got a chance to see the Mountain Goats in concert....

September 03, 2016

“Divine Disco: The beatific sub-genre that delivered sermons on the dance floor”: The Guardian

grauniading: With its reputation for sex, drugs and unbridled hedonism, disco doesn’t have a reputation...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Kids Under 12 Drink Free: I review the “AbFab” movie & “Bojack Horseman”

together! The third season of Bojack Horseman arrived the same day the long-awaited Absolutely Fabulous:...

July 06, 2016

I Don’t Believe in Modern Love (But I Do Love “Modern Manners”)

Recently revisited Modern Manners: An Etiquette Guide for Rude People, my favorite PJ O'Rourke. I...

June 2016

June 07, 2016

Sad Bible Songs: I review Harrison Lemke’s “Fertile Crescent Blues”

at First Things: "Christian pop is unrelentingly cheerful.” That was Leah Libresco's conclusion when she...