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 …
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 …
The festering of grief and the frightening ways such grief manifests itself is at the heart of The Babadook, director Jennifer Kent’s horror film about the relationship between a mother and her son. Amelia (Essie Davis) has never really accepted her husband’s death, which occurred Read More …
The enigmatic eponymous phrase, “light from light,” is found the Nicene Creed: “God from God, light from light, true God from true God.” It’s a statement about Christology, how the Son of God is both fully human and fully divine in one person, the invisible Read More …