Exploring the Christian Themes in Martin Scorsese’s Selected Filmography
Martin Scorsese once stated, “My whole life has been movies and religion. That’s it. Nothing else.” Either centered on biblical stories or as backdrops to cultural [...]
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Troll the Ancient Yuletide Carol
Every year, the holiday season officially begins in earnest with the milquetoast strains of emcee Lauer declaring St. Nick’s arrival on a sleigh/float/flatbed in the annual [...]
A Retrospective Look: Marlon Brando’s One Eyed-Jacks on the Criterion Collection
Considered one of the greatest actors ever, Marlon Brando’s greatest works are often cited as A Street Car Named Desire, Viva Zapata, or his two Oscar winning performances: [...]
Golden Smog
In the commotion of late-capitalism and the dissonance of mounting muffler shop surrealism, the polarity of the tale of the last Phrygian king’s chrysopoeia reversed. As [...]
Seek Truth and Report It
The 2003 American drama indie film Shattered Glass may be viewed simply for entertainment by a number of individuals. However, through the eyes of a journalist (or a [...]
PoundSignOneTooManyBillyMumphreyStories
Most everyone in Search Party (or, “Curiosity Killed the Shawkat”) is content to assume that Chantal Winterbottom is dead. Partly, they’re playing the odds. More so, [...]
The Body, The Blood, The Bachelor Machine
The figure(s) in Da Vinci’s Le proporzioni del corpo umano secondo Vitruvio—however many there are, on however many planes of existence compressed into [...]
“Like being slowly drowned in a peat bog…”
Humanity unraveled Tuesday with all the subtlety of a dumpster fire. Whatever grisly, scatological metaphor you wish to deploy, now’s the time to get graphic. I’ve [...]
American Prodigal visits Redding
How does the music industry influence lives? The American Prodigal Tour came to Redding October 12; as a result, citizens began asking themselves the same question. Prior to [...]
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