Of The 1910s
“Villains!” I shrieked, “dissemble no more! I admit the deed! –tear up the planks! here, here! –It is the beating of his hideous heart!” –Edgar Allan Poe, “The Tell-Tale Heart” “In [Thomas] Dixon’s book The Clansman, rape is actual, not…
Review| Bomb City
Amarillo, Texas is not one of those places that finds much representation within cinematic landscapes. We are vaguely West Texas in name only so many of us who live in these flatlands look on films like There Will Be Blood,…
Review| Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri & the Backroads to Justice
Three monuments stand erect in a staggered row along a road that gets little traffic in the town of Ebbing, Missouri; justice, here, like any other place is relegated to the backroads of peoples’ consciousness and not its central thoroughfares.…
Reel World: Rewind #012 – Rope
On this episode of Reel World: Rewind . . . Blaine is joined by Joe Nooft to talk about Alfred Hitchcock’s 1948 film, Rope. They discuss how the film is unique among Hitchcock’s filmography, and they dive deep into the film’s social…
#099 – Daredevil S02 and Holy Spirit Ninja Grace
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: You voted and we obliged! With our listeners pick of topic for Episode #099 we dive back into Hell’s Kitchen with Daredevil season two. We also get the gang back together…
Who-ology| S02E01 New Earth
Episode 2 of season 2 offers what science fiction does best–not only giving us a world we’ve never been in before, but using this new setting to explore questions already prominent in the human mind. In the case of “New…
Serial Identity
(Don’t worry. You’re reading a spoiler-free article.) This is a Global-Tel link prepaid call from — Adnan Syed — an inmate at a Maryland Correctional facility. On October 23, 2014, the first episode of Serial was released. Buoyed by its…