It’s been said that, just as God is triune, human beings are made up of three parts: mind, body, and soul. Though this simplification ignores the fact that the body and what we think of as the mind are both incredibly complex and themselves made Read More …
When a story has been adapted hundreds of times since 1910—across countless mediums—the obvious question becomes: do we really need another version? Director Guillermo del Toro answers that question with confidence and care, offering not a retelling, but a re-interrogation of Frankenstein. Set at the Read More …
“You want something to love that’s all your own. Something that’s all yours. Well, you have never had children. They don’t belong to you, and they will break your heart.” “We’ll just be here when they need us.” These quotes are said by Bill (David Read More …
“In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction.” -Job 33:15-16. Speaking of childhood in Denis Johnson’s source novella, Robert Grainier (brought here Read More …
Prayer has been at the heart of cinema in 2026 in a way that it usually is not, from Wake-Up Dead Man to Sentimental Value to A Little Prayer. Even Superman, one could argue, as a helpless boy clings to his name as men with guns point them at him, following Read More …
It is said that a house divided against itself will not stand. In the case of Joachim Trier’s film Sentimental Value, that division is rooted in a father’s (Stellan Skarsgard) emotional and physical distance from the lives of his two daughters (Renata Reinsve and Inga Read More …
Everything in Sinners has a twin. The protagonists, Smoke and Stack (both played by Michael B. Jordan), are twin brothers. While the characters may not resemble Cain and Abel in spirit, their fates are similar; one brother dies and the other is cursed to be Read More …
Christ calls his followers not only from something but also to something: both abundant life (John 10:10) and self-denial in taking up the cross (Matthew 16:24). Christian faith offers us the paradox of saving our lives by losing our lives for Christ’s sake (Matthew 16:25)—a Read More …
It can be difficult to pin down what exactly makes Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro (Tonari no Totoro) such a towering achievement of cinema, its simplicity and gentleness belying its power to attune us to the act of living. On the surface, it is a Read More …
“You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.” Laurence Fishbourne’s Morpheus poses these iconic options Read More …