Review| The Quarry
Scott Teems’ new film, The Quarry, strikes upon two of my deepest obsessions: southern gothic literature and music. It doesn’t have the magical realism of True Detective’s first season and it doesn’t have the grotesquery of the characters of Flannery…
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…
Oh! The Horror… | of Deconstructing the Heart of the Slasher Genre
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. — John 15:13 (ESVUK) I just thought what was so clever about the conceit of the movie is that it really is the story…
#109 – Hell or High Water and Justice vs Law
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: We get to talk about a movie that was previously not on our radar, but looks to be the gem of the late-summer muck. Hell or High Water gives is a…