Guilt and Rest
[This appeared first at The Jagged Word on August 31.] If Hitchcock remade Fight Club, it would probably look a lot like The Machinist (2004). If you haven’t seen it, but you’ve seen Fight Club, then I...
View ArticleMemory is Treachery
[This appeared first at The Jagged Word on September 7.] Memory is a strange thing. Last week I wrote that I had seen The Machinist during my second summer at college, the first that I did not return...
View ArticleThe Devil and Father Amorth
[This appeared first at The Jagged Word on September 21.] This isn’t a great documentary. In some ways (down to the design of the credits and titles) it is simply playing on the success and popularity...
View ArticleWild West Preachers
[This appeared first at The Jagged Word on September 28.] So I watched Pale Rider for the first time. Clint Eastwood is great, as always. The Eastwood squint/glare is in full effect. He has no actual...
View ArticleRams
[This appeared first at The Jagged Word on October 5.] First of all, in another life, I would have wanted to be an Icelandic shepherd. Second, Rams (streaming on Netflix) is a...
View ArticleGuilt and Grief, and Relief
[This appeared first at The Jagged Word on October 12.] Troubled Water (2008, streaming on Amazon Prime) is really a brilliantly made film. You know the whole thing is going to collapse and fall apart...
View ArticleAbsurdity Between God and Evil
[This appeared first at The Jagged Word on October 19.] After I watched Troubled Water last week, one of Amazon’s recommendations was Adam’s Apples (2005, streaming on Amazon Prime), about a naive...
View ArticleGosnell and the Hypocrisy of Everything
[This appeared first at The Jagged Word on October 26.] Halloween is almost upon us, and some people like to watch scary movies. But don’t see the new Halloween or Predator or The Nun. If you want a...
View ArticleSt. Coraline the Mundane
[This appeared first at The Jagged Word on November 2.] Coraline (2008, streaming on Amazon Prime) might be the perfect movie for All Saints or All Souls (not that I’m praying for the dead in...
View ArticleHeaven and Earth Bear Witness
As usual, the political divisions over various issues do not match the division between a Scriptural understanding and an idolatrous one. In this case, it’s the division between “conservatives” and...
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