Netflix’s new series brings an unapologetic search for truth.
Sustained Outrage: Steven Soderbergh’s Che and the Virtue of Uprising
The soulful revolutionary and violent guerilla poses difficult questions for today’s opposition movement.
With the Time That is Given to Us: The Importance of the Quest/Hero Myth in an Era of Oppression”
Frodo, Harry, and Katniss remind me, and all of us, that we are all part of the resistance
“This Machine Kills Fascists:” Creativity as Protest in the Era of President Trump
The great artists of the world remind you every damn day that our voices matter
The Pontifical Donald Trump in HBO’s Brave and Disappointing The Young Pope
Paolo Sorrentino creates films that are great visual feasts, featuring lonely men wandering through a desolate landscape of existential crises. Sorrentino’s This Must Be the Place features Sean Penn as Cheyenne, a retired rockstar in full on goth makeup, seeking out the man who was humiliated by his Nazi father during WWII. Youth stars Michael Caine and […]
Scorsese’s Suffering God
The Stake’s resident Chaplain takes a deep-dive on Silence
La La Land, Powerful Speeches, and Anti-Trump Commentary Rule the Night at The Golden Globe Awards 2017
A lot of winners. But it was Meryl Streep’s night.
The Zen of Sarah & Duck: After the Election
Find a sense of mindfulness and calm with the simple joys of animation
The Crown Recap: Season 1, Episode 1
Joey Armstrong kicks off his recap series of Stephen Daldry’s new Netflix show.
Whose Dream Is It?: David Lynch’s ERASERHEAD
The Criterion Collection advertises itself as “a series of important contemporary and classic films.” That is an understatement. It’s more accurate to describe Criterion as a moveable museum, containing films from all over the world, preserved in gorgeous detail, unpacked with creator interviews and essays written by film scholars. The folks at Criterion have gathered a community […]