by Andrew Doan Thanh Phong Hanoi – “Marriage cannot last longer if it is not nurtured every day said by Father Peter Nguyen Van Truong to the participants of the …
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga opens with a God’s-eye view of a fragile sliver of green in a vast expanse of rust orange: an oasis of life in the post-apocalyptic …
George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is a blast, and, while its box-office crash and burn is disappointing on a number of levels, it’s well-made enough that I’m sure …
“The Multiverse Idea Is Rotting Culture,” Sam Kriss argued in The Atlantic all the way back in 2016. That was long before the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s massive “Multiverse Saga” even …
Questions of meaning and nihilism in the MCU multiverse and the Spider-Verse have become inseparable from the multiverse-policing agencies in both sagas. The Spider-Verse has the Spider-Society, while the MCU …
It’s interesting to compare and contrast the TVA with the other Marvel multiverse-policing organization, revealed in last summer’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: the Spider-Society. (A sequel to 2018’s Spider-Man: Into …
The last third stumbles, I think, in reaching for even larger themes while settling for a standard Hollywood heroes-vs.-villains action finale—but, thankfully, none of this detracts from what the film …
Alas, between teaching both high school and university as well as my diaconal work, the only extracurricular writing I’ve been able to do is what I’ve called “quick wins”—i.e., short …
If you’re as much a fan of writer-director Paul King’s two Paddington movies as I am, you may think of them often while watching this threequel, from first-time feature director …
Population growth, migration, and economic opportunity continue to pull millions into major metropolitan areas. At the same time, aging populations and limited space are beginning to slow growth in several …
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