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2024-12-18T14:30:38-06:00

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Sunset Boulevard and Vanity

Last updated on: December 18, 2024 at 2:30 pm By Zachary Miller

The aim of this site is to help film lovers better discern the glimmers of divinity and goodness in the films that inform our culture and our individual souls. This is, admittedly, a little difficult at times given just how rotten Hollywood can be at what often feels like a foundational level. Hollywood itself isn’t particularly shy about this and even gets in on this sometimes by offering little confessionals, films exploring the rancidness of the Hollywood machine. Of course,... Read more

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Sin

2024-12-03T16:02:05-06:00

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Good Will Hunting and Worth

Last updated on: December 3, 2024 at 4:02 pm By Zachary Miller

It sometimes surprises people who know me to learn that I spent a season working with boys with behavioral disabilities, kids with tons of potential who were facing significant crossroads. So I have some context for the relationship between Matt Damon and Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting. Don’t give me too much credit, though. I wish I could say I was as good at my job as Robin Williams was at his. Gus Van Sant’s 1997 film, Good Will... Read more

General Christian

2024-11-26T15:04:14-06:00

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Pirates of the Caribbean and Morality

Last updated on: November 26, 2024 at 3:04 pm By Zachary Miller

Sorry for not specifying in the title, I was trying to keep the length somewhat manageable, but this piece will only be looking at the first film in the series, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Please forgive me, I know how much everyone loves the sequels … The question at the center of this film is a person’s capacity for treachery and what happens when someone breaks free of formality. From the moment Elizabeth finds... Read more

General Christian

2024-11-19T17:11:13-06:00

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In The Heights and Joy

Last updated on: November 19, 2024 at 5:11 pm By Zachary Miller

We learn very early on in Jon M. Chu’s In the Heights that everyone has a dream. Everyone has a song. Even the neighborhood Abuela spends her days wondering whether the sacrifices she and her mother made had lasting impact. Even the dude who sells snow cones has a story to tell. This is probably true of every place and every community, but it takes a special kind of ear to key in on this and bring it all to... Read more

General Christian

2024-11-12T12:44:17-06:00

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Act of Violence and Guilt

Last updated on: November 12, 2024 at 12:44 pm By Zachary Miller

The effect that WWII had on the American psyche is one of the most discussed topics in all of film discussion, but if we could imagine one film as sort of the face of this issue, it would have to be Fred Zinneman’s 1949 noir-piece, Act of Violence. The film sees family man and all-around good guy, Frank, living with his wife, Edith, and young son in the suburbs. His California community celebrates Frank for surviving a POW camp while... Read more

General Christian

2024-10-29T16:58:13-06:00

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The Shining and Evil

Last updated on: October 29, 2024 at 4:58 pm By Zachary Miller

There’s a lot to be grateful for here at the tail end of a long legacy of cinematic masterworks, but it does come with some downsides. Namely, most of said masterworks are often already spoiled to new viewers by virtue of basic participation in the pop culture conversation. People who come to Titanic in 2024 tend to already have “I’ll never let go, Jack!” preloaded. Modern viewers of Jurassic Park aren’t really allowed to be surprised when the dinosaurs break... Read more

General Christian

Horror Films

Sin

2024-10-22T17:05:38-06:00

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Sunshine Cleaning and Love

Last updated on: October 22, 2024 at 5:05 pm By Zachary Miller

Between my readings of both Enchanted and Arrival, I think this is the third time I have written about the glorious Amy Adams, but I think it’s about time I bring the lovely Emily Blunt into this circle as well. (Scratch that, I wrote about A Quiet Place earlier this year, didn’t I?) The two actually costarred together in Christine Jeffs’ 2008 dramedy, Sunshine Cleaning, which also featured Alan Arkin, Mary Lynn Rajskub, and Clifton Collins Jr. The story sees... Read more

General Christian

2024-10-15T16:31:22-06:00

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Your Name and Divinity

Last updated on: October 15, 2024 at 4:31 pm By Zachary Miller

The concept of divine destiny or foreordination can be a highly contested one in religious circles. For some, the idea that God sends us all here with certain programming embedded in us or that God predetermines how our lives play out feels like a violation of our own autonomy. And yet, how many of us have had moments where we’ve glimpsed the hand of the puppeteer? Been privy to something from the other side of the curtain, some confluence of... Read more

General Christian

2024-09-24T14:55:50-06:00

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Sweet Bird of Youth and Value

Last updated on: September 24, 2024 at 2:55 pm By Zachary Miller

Today our attention turns to one of Paul Newman’s most underrated works, Richard Brooks’ 1962 adaptation of Tennesse William’s play, Sweet Bird of Youth. The movie sees Newman as Chance Wayne, a hopeful star on the rising who is chasing two things: the love of his life, Heavenly Finley, and a mass of wealth to support her, which is exactly what he thinks awaits him in Hollywood. Chance does not realize that he was sent on this errant fool’s quest... Read more

General Christian

2024-09-17T13:57:32-06:00

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Donnie Darko and Divinity

Last updated on: September 17, 2024 at 1:57 pm By Zachary Miller

Confession: I still don’t get the ending of Donnie Darko … but I do know there’s a lot about the ending that I really like. That final exchange between Donnie’s mom and Gretchen where you can tell that they recognize each other but have no idea why … there’s a lot going on there. They have no memory of one another, but still feel the residue of their interactions from another timeline, a timeline that is now erased. Erased, because... Read more

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