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June 2022

June 27, 2022

Only the Bad Sleep Well

In 1921 at eleven years old, Yoshio Kodama was unhappily living with his sister and...

June 20, 2022

If Ray Liotta’s Her Ex, Get Out of Dodge

It’s a little late to eulogize Ray Liotta. He died three weeks ago. And yet...

June 14, 2022

Slummin’ It Sitcom

No better time than another energy crisis to revisit Tamara Jenkins’ Slums of Beverly Hills...

June 12, 2022

When Teen Comedies Go Sad

I’m 28 years old, which means that when I think teen movies, I think sex...

May 2022

May 31, 2022

All Your Teachers Are Belong to Us

1998’s The Faculty (dir. Robert Rodriguez) breaks the golden rule: never mention a better work...

May 20, 2022

Temporary Insanity

I grew up with Office Space (1999). It’s with us even now, the giggles to...

May 16, 2022

Win the Lottery, Die in the Subway

R.W. Fassbinder’s Faustrecht der Freiheit (1975) is usually translated Fox and His Friends. That title...

May 06, 2022

Guff from the DUFF

It ain’t easy to watch movies when you’ve got a new puppy and there’s something...

April 2022

April 29, 2022

Disaster, I Flirt with Thee

David O. Russell seems like the kind of guy who sees his life and work...

April 23, 2022

Messiah, Desaparecido

When a messiah disappears believers have a bit of a problem on their hands: this...

April 14, 2022

Straight Eye for the Queer Gal for the Straight Guy

Forgive me, reader, for I have sinned—I’m reviewing another Kevin Smith movie, the one that,...

April 10, 2022

The Politics of Kevin Smith’s Townieverse

I’m in a peculiar position. I left New Jersey for college (went all the way...

April 04, 2022

Old-Fashioned Ghoulish Fun

A few weeks ago I chanced upon a video interview with a real, live Appalachian...

March 2022

March 28, 2022

Fear of Fear, or How to Make a TV Movie

What makes for a good TV movie? Can such a thing exist? On Rotten Tomatoes,...

March 21, 2022

When Trauma Was Goofy

I’m 28 and I’m already nostalgic for the earliest years of my life. On...

March 13, 2022

The Bitter Tears of the Working Class

Have you ever sat down to read a John Updike novel or John Cheever story...

March 05, 2022

A Nation of Used Car Dealers, by Used Car Dealers, for Used Car Dealers

A glance at the Rotten Tomatoes reviews of Robert Zemeckis’ Used Cars (1980) about sums...

February 2022

February 26, 2022

Body-Swap Slasher Fails to Freak

When Bo Burnham’s Netflix special, Inside (2021), lamented a year at home and a society...

February 19, 2022

I Blame Society for “I Blame Society”

2020’s I Blame Society leans heavily on the “I,” with producer-writer-director-lead actor, Gillian Wallace Horvat...

July 2021

July 27, 2021

Catfish: Five Years On

On September 12, 2016, I published a piece about Catholic Twitter’s most notorious catfish....

December 2020

December 01, 2020

Liberalism, or Rule by Technicality

When George H.W. Bush died, he was publicly lamented as “the last WASP president,” a...

November 2020

November 23, 2020

Prayer is Left

I find myself in an uneasy situation. I don't love either Donald Trump or Joe...

November 16, 2020

Christ Forgives Debts, so Should We

“Give all, for all is yours” has long been the tagline of my...

November 13, 2020

Political Christianity: Body or Soul?

I spent the last couple of weeks preparing for my new podcast (Gerizim—check it out...

July 2020

July 11, 2020

The Holy Wisdom of America’s Turkey Policy

The Hagia Sophia is back in the news—this time because Turkey’s Supreme Court ruled that...

May 2020

May 07, 2020

In the Ruins of Decaying Empire

On Wednesday, two customers in an Oklahoma City McDonald's shot at employees. They were not...

May 04, 2020

Inhabiting the New Normal

As with many things we talk about, American discussions of COVID-19 seem limited, limited to...

April 2020

April 07, 2020

The Religious Left and the Atheistic Right

Teaching has brought me back to Nietzsche once again. This is always a revivifying process,...

February 2020

February 14, 2020

Nietzsche and Me

A student followed me out of class the other day; he couldn’t believe that I,...

February 07, 2020

Abusing Religious Liberty

America Magazine is reporting a victory for religious liberty. In essence, an appeals court ruled...

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