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"Movies are fuckin' bullshit."
In 2016 I wrote this review for my "Global Religious Traditions" class in seminary. Seriously.
There are so many interesting theological concepts and questions being explored in this movie that it’s almost hard to know where to start. So perhaps it’s best to start where the movie starts: Bartleby and Loki. Bartleby and Loki are two fallen angels who have been banished from Heaven (to Wisconsin) for insubordination after Bartleby convinced a drunken Loki to throw…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
This has quickly become one of my all time favorite movies and one of the best movies ever made about male friendship and masculinity.
Of course there's the idea that Mark is growing up while Kurt is clinging to his youth (the markers of Kurt's immaturity are everywhere, springing the idea of taking Mark's car on him at the last second, forgetting their roommate stiffed them on the rent, playing with Lucy while Mark cleans up the campsite, etc.) but…
My memory of my childhood is a little fuzzy but I'm pretty sure Rachel Leigh Cook as Becky Thatcher was my first crush.
This is my favorite Star War and I don't have to explain myself to YOU or ANYBODY!
Criterion Challenge 2025
9. 1930s
Aus Staub bist du geworden--zu Staub sollst du wieder werden
I've tried and failed to finish this a few times in the past and I get why now. At times it is very abstract and fragmented and once the narrative becomes more linear, most of the exposition comes from the pages of a book. I don't love the happy ending--personally I prefer the first ending where H.P. Lovecraft dies and we never find out for…
