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April 2018

April 02, 2018

Blade Runner 2049: Master Copy

For a long time I’ve said that the 1982 film Blade Runner is my favorite...

January 2018

January 29, 2018

Phantom Thread : A Union of Psyche and Eros

Anyone blessed enough to receive a good classical education is somewhere along the way warned...

January 25, 2018

Pearl of Hope: Personal Shopper and the New Year

Near the end of 2017, I rewatched Oliver Assayas’s ghost story film Personal Shopper not...

December 2017

December 20, 2017

The Play’s the Thing

In a recent interview about some stories I’ve written, the interviewer asked several questions regarding...

December 12, 2017

Arts & Faith Top 25 Films on Waking Up, Part 2

There are, arguably, many ways in which we need to wake up, hence the need...

December 11, 2017

Arts & Faith Top 25 Films on Waking Up, Part 1

“My father says almost the whole world’s asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody...

September 2017

September 21, 2017

Secret Mercies

Ours is a confessional age, a time in which telling all is not only customarily...

June 2017

June 15, 2017

A Prayer for Kendrick Lamar

It occurs to me each time I listen to Kendrick Lamar’s new album, Damn: The award winning...

March 2017

March 09, 2017

Distorted Reality and FX’s Taboo

It’s been said that human beings warp everything that they touch as a consequence of...

February 2017

February 01, 2017

John Slater’s Lean

What is poetry, anyway? I found myself musing about this as I sat with John...

April 2016

April 26, 2016

Annie Spans the Gap, Part 1

The following appears as the editorial statement in Image issue 88. There is no such...

March 2016

March 23, 2016

Better Call Saul

Better Call Saul, a prequel to AMC’s milestone series, Breaking Bad, further establishes co-creators Vince Gilligan...

February 2016

February 15, 2016

The Coen Brothers, Plato, and the Imagination

By Santiago Ramos Note: This review contains mild spoilers. Hail, Caesar!, the Coen Brothers’ latest...

January 2016

January 13, 2016

Winners: Arts & Faith Ecumenical Jury Awards for 2015, Part 2

By Kenneth R. Morefield. Continued from yesterday. Read Part 1 here. Coninuing yesterday’s list of...

December 2015

December 17, 2015

For the Love of Hank Stuever, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Hank Stuever’s 2005 collection of essays Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in...

October 2015

October 29, 2015

The Affair and the End of It

The second season of Showtime’s The Affair premiered at the beginning of October. In the show, Noah,...

October 26, 2015

A Good Fight: Deux Jours, Une Nuit (Two Days, One Night)

If a pair of writer/directors exists that can rival Joel and Ethan Coen for a...

June 2015

June 22, 2015

The Art of the Authentic: Bill Baer’s Times Square

In 1973, Orson Welles made a documentary, F for Fake, in which he followed the...