January 21, 2017

Silence and the End of Christendom

Martin Scorsese’s Silence is the culmination of his nearly thirty-year journey to bring to the screen Shusaku Endo’s 1966 novel of the same name.  It is a dreary but profound book, accessible to English readers in William J...

December 24, 2016

Rogue One’s Rebellion against the White Patriarchy

Following the convoluted plot of Disney’s latest Star Wars movie, and finding its place in the larger chronology, is a bit like navigating an asteroid field in the Millennium Falcon. Suffice it to say that Rogue One: A Star Wars ...

December 7, 2016

Hacksaw Ridge and the Deplorable Desmond Doss

This month, Mel Gibson nabbed a nomination for best director from the Broadcast Film Critics Association.  The last we saw Gibson directing, a Mayan priest was tossing heads down the pyramid steps in Apocalypto.  In the decade since, he has...