Tag: The Church

  • Captain America: Civil War

    Captain America: Civil War

    Marvel’s at it again. This spring’s big hit is an adaption of the multiverse sensation Civil War for the newest Captain America movie. I remember 10 years ago spending hours in our local library reading this amazing story from as many points of view as they had, feeling the tension, fractures, sabotages, and trying to…

  • Paris Is Burning

    Paris Is Burning

    Paris is Burning struck its match when director Jennie Livingston was walking through Washington Square and stopped to watch a group of young men voguing. They invited her to a drag ball. At the time Livingston was “sniffing around” for a documentary subject, but once she got a noseful of the ball, she got addicted.…

  • Netflix and Chill

    Netflix and Chill

    Several months ago Buzzfeed came out with a “literal video” of sorts, the topic Netflix and Chill — a synonym for fooling around. It is hard to say what the exact relationship is between streaming movies and/or television, relaxing (what else would you be doing?), and coitus (or lesser sexual acts). This sort of behavior…

  • Spotlight

    Spotlight

    We know the story. Priests in the Catholic church abused lots of kids for a long time. With a story so familiar is it worth seeing Spotlight? Absolutely. Spotlight allows the viewer to re-enter the ignorance of the reporters who said that a priest wouldn’t do this, or if a couple priests were guilty then…

  • Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party

    Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party

    For all of you who haven’t been wanting to watch this movie for over a year, allow me let you into my world. My anticipation for Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party started after seeing The Wise Kids which is a a similar but more idyllic movie by the same director, Stephen Cone. The Wise Kids was…

  • The Force and the Death of God

    The Force and the Death of God

    We are now six deep. In two months, it will be seven. In two months, the enchantment of the Star Wars Universe will expand and our intrigue will deepen. It’s no longer just a world of weird Wookies and speculative science fiction. Many of us, myself included, grew up with access to the Star Wars…

  • Trauma Follows

    Trauma Follows

    In David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows, a young woman named Jay (Maika Monroe) has a sexual encounter with her crush, Hugh (Jake Weary), only to find that he has a dark secret. He is followed by a supernatural force, the titular “It,” and the only way to keep “It” from killing is to pass “It”…