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Religious Music and Entertainment

2022-08-17T18:45:13-04:00

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Only the Bad Sleep Well

Last updated on: August 17, 2022 at 6:45 pm By Chase Padusniak

In 1921 at eleven years old, Yoshio Kodama was unhappily living with his sister and her husband in Korea, beating steel into sheets at a nearby mill. By 1929, he had attempted to hand the emperor a direct appeal for greater patriotism. Kodama was stopped by security forces, though that didn’t stop him from spending the better part of the next decade plotting (and occasionally succeeding in) assassinations against major political figures. By the early 50s, only 20 or so... Read more

Religious Art

2022-08-17T18:45:38-04:00

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

Last updated on: August 17, 2022 at 6:45 pm By Chase Padusniak

It’s a little late to eulogize Ray Liotta. He died three weeks ago. And yet I couldn’t help myself but to turn on Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild (1986), not the film in which I first encountered Liotta, but the one in which he first really struck me. I caught the movie for the first time in a college cinema class, where I recall feeling blindsided by the work’s subtle transition from screwball comedy to thriller. Somehow it was both. It... Read more

Religious Art

2022-08-17T18:46:04-04:00

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Slummin’ It Sitcom

Last updated on: August 17, 2022 at 6:46 pm By Chase Padusniak

No better time than another energy crisis to revisit Tamara Jenkins’ Slums of Beverly Hills (1998), the story of young teen girl and her dysfunctional-cum-loving family’s attempt to navigate life in 1976 Los Angeles. Vivian (Natasha Lyonne) and her brothers, Ben (David Krumholtz) and Ricky (Eli Marienthal) are used to getting yelled at in the middle of the night, told to move from one fleabag apartment to the next by their 65-year-old dad Murray (Alan Arkin). They are, as Vivian... Read more

Religious Art

2022-08-17T18:47:38-04:00

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When Teen Comedies Go Sad

Last updated on: August 17, 2022 at 6:47 pm By Chase Padusniak

I’m 28 years old, which means that when I think teen movies, I think sex comedies. American Pie (1999), Superbad (2007), and Project X (2012)—these carefree slices of Y2K and aughts (and honorary aughts) self-discovery are my hallmarks of teen sexual theology. Uncool boys pursue girls. Boys rag on each other. Hijinks ensue. None of that 80s heartwarming stuff. No Molly Ringwald. Bring on the Clinton-Bush-Obama degradation. Bring on the inadequacy and the failure. But make it funny. What could... Read more

Religious Art

The Last American Virgin

Tragicomedy

2022-08-17T18:48:01-04:00

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All Your Teachers Are Belong to Us

Last updated on: August 17, 2022 at 6:48 pm By Chase Padusniak

1998’s The Faculty (dir. Robert Rodriguez) breaks the golden rule: never mention a better work of art in yours. The diagnosis is typically fatal. The viewer’s mind trails off, thinking about what could’ve been, the more entertaining time they could be having. This is always a risk when watching writer Kevin Williamson’s films [other credits include Scream (1996), I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999) and Dawson’s Creek (1998-2003)], since his brand of satire doesn’t... Read more

Religious Art

2022-08-17T18:48:19-04:00

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Temporary Insanity

Last updated on: August 17, 2022 at 6:48 pm By Chase Padusniak

I grew up with Office Space (1999). It’s with us even now, the giggles to “yeah…I’m gonna have to ask you to…” and the famous printer scene (one version of which stands at over 4 million views on YouTube). Even in the book I’m reading right now about workplace massacres, Going Postal by Mark Ames, the movie is a constant refrain, serving to punctuate not just chapters, but even sections of chapters, as if Mike Judge had captured it. You... Read more

Careers, Workplace and Religion

2022-08-17T18:48:51-04:00

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Win the Lottery, Die in the Subway

Last updated on: August 17, 2022 at 6:48 pm By Chase Padusniak

R.W. Fassbinder’s Faustrecht der Freiheit (1975) is usually translated Fox and His Friends. That title is coy and ironic, since our man Fox is a walking “with friends like these…” bit. It does, however, capture the alliteration of the German original and something of Fassbinder’s unhinged and biting sense of humor [most prominently displayed in Satan’s Brew (1976)]. A more literal rendering might be Fistfight for Freedom or Freedom’s Law of the Jungle; these distill things down. Fox comes from... Read more

Politics and Religion

2022-08-17T18:49:01-04:00

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Guff from the DUFF

Last updated on: August 17, 2022 at 6:49 pm By Chase Padusniak

It ain’t easy to watch movies when you’ve got a new puppy and there’s something decaying in your crawlspace. It’s upsetting my asthma. We think it’s a mouse. The pest control guy is supposed to be here soon. Either way, it turns out if a teething puppy smells something that rank, he’ll spend countless hours trying to claw through your carpet, pulling up rugs and trying to tear out their innards like a buzzard getting ready for a banquet on... Read more

Religious Art

2022-08-17T18:49:20-04:00

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Disaster, I Flirt with Thee

Last updated on: August 17, 2022 at 6:49 pm By Chase Padusniak

David O. Russell seems like the kind of guy who sees his life and work as necromantic offerings, a series of hocuses and pocuses in the hopes of summoning Dr. Freud back from the grave. His debut, Spanking the Monkey (1994) is about the taboo (you know the one). More recently he’s admitted to (his version) inappropriately checking up on the development of his trans-niece or (her version) unwantedly fondling her in a garage. Russell seems like a man who... Read more

Family, Parenting and Religion

2022-08-17T18:49:33-04:00

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Messiah, Desaparecido

Last updated on: August 17, 2022 at 6:49 pm By Chase Padusniak

When a messiah disappears believers have a bit of a problem on their hands: this guy came to save people, establish justice, and (usually) end the world, and now he’s with us no more—what to do? What to do? He can’t have failed, after all (if he did then, like the followers of Bar Kokhba, his people probably disappeared into the morass of history). The most common answer is occultation, that is, actually he’s alive and doing fine, he’s just... Read more

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