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September 2026

September 02, 2026

“The Plague Dogs” and Mortality

So, flashback to the late 70s, early 80s. Walt Disney Studios is kind of in...

August 2026

August 12, 2026

“L’avventura” and Human Weakness

Today's piece is going to be a little different for a few reasons. The subject...

August 26, 2025

The Descendants and Trials

Sorry if I got your hopes up: no, this isn't about that Disney Channel movie...

July 2025

July 29, 2025

Chinatown and Hopelessness

I really enjoyed talking last week about nihilism with The Big Lebowski, so I guess...

July 22, 2025

The Big Lebowski and Slothfulness

This is another one of those films that is really fun to discuss here on...

June 2025

June 24, 2025

Promising Young Woman and Revenge

So, here's a question: is vengeance ever justified? The Christian outlook has a very clear,...

March 2025

March 25, 2025

The Goodbye Girl and Trials

The Goodbye Girl is one of my favorite movies in that it does something I...

January 2025

January 21, 2025

Gone with the Wind and Resilience

Let me say up front with this piece that ... deriving truth from artifice is...

December 2024

December 03, 2024

Good Will Hunting and Worth

It sometimes surprises people who know me to learn that I spent a season working...

October 2024

October 15, 2024

Your Name and Divinity

The concept of divine destiny or foreordination can be a highly contested one in religious...

September 2024

September 17, 2024

Donnie Darko and Divinity

Confession: I still don't get the ending of Donnie Darko ... but I do know...

September 03, 2024

Modern Times and Perseverance

How exactly did it take me this long to write about Charlie Chaplin in...

June 2024

June 18, 2024

A Quiet Place and Gathering

We all have regrets in life. One of mine is that I did not let...

June 11, 2024

The Skeleton Twins and Solidarity

Today's film deals with some heavy topics, most notably suicide, which will be discussed in...

May 2024

May 07, 2024

It’s a Wonderful Life and Service

Here's a question. By the end of It's a Wonderful Life, do you think George...

April 2024

April 16, 2024

Alien and Godlessness

I knew that writing about this film through a religious perspective was going to be...

April 09, 2024

Onward and Love

One of the most human of feelings is missing something that you can never have,...

April 02, 2024

Ikiru and Heaven

I consider myself relatively lucky in the way of work. Overall, I have been fortunate...

March 2024

March 26, 2024

Silver Linings Playbook and Empathy

The relationship between accepting yourself as you are and striving to live as your...

October 2023

October 10, 2023

War of the Worlds and Turmoil

There was something like a sixteen-year gap between when I was first traumatized by Steven...

August 2023

August 08, 2023

Nights of Cabiria and Happiness

If there is any part of the human condition more constant than the search for...

April 2023

April 04, 2023

Waking Life and Truth

Today we're going to do something a little different and venture more into something a...

February 2023

February 07, 2023

Roma and Love

Telling a story through any medium is an innately personal endeavor, but the process can...

January 2023

January 31, 2023

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Precious Heartbreak

The appeal of Michel Gondry's 2004 romance, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, rests on...

January 17, 2023

From Here to Eternity and Principles

I enjoy a wide variety of films, but there are a select few that genuinely...

December 2022

December 27, 2022

Toy Story 2 and Immortality

The prospect of immortality, eternal life, or some kind of existence beyond mortal life can...

November 2022

November 15, 2022

Enchanted and Faith in a Fallen World

A few weeks back when I talked about Scream, I mentioned that self-aware movies are...

October 2022

October 29, 2022

Scream and Agency

It's a miracle that a movie like Scream ever landed on my list of favorite...

September 2022

September 20, 2022

The Impossible and Healing through Service

JA Bayona's 2012 epic dramatizes the experience of the real-life Belón family (named the Bennet...

August 2022

August 30, 2022

How to Train Your Dragon and Kindness as Strength

In the years leading up to Christ's birth, the intellectuals of the day anticipated the...