“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 …
In 2022, I wrote that Dune takes the prompt of Luke 4:5-6 where the devil tempts Jesus and imagines a scenario in which a young prince might accept the devil’s temptation rather than reject it. This description is even more true of Dune: Part Two, Denis Villeneuve’s magnificent Read More …
“I still don’t understand the play.” So muses Augie Steenbeck (Jason Schwartzman) multiple times through Wes Anderson’s story of a televised production of a fictitious play about death, grief, acting, “brainiac” children, alien invasion, military oversight, first romances, seasoned affairs, art, and storytelling itself. Prior Read More …
The year of Colin Farrell began with this gentle science-fiction film about a family dealing with the breakdown of its robot, a sort of artificial big brother (the titular Yang, played by Justin H. Min) who was acquired by the parents to give their adopted Read More …
“God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good.” (Genesis 1:31 NRSV) The joy of the natural world and creation rings through James Cameron’s sequel to Avatar, the biggest movie of all time. As a science-fiction epic, Avatar: The Way of Water takes a Read More …