Millennials Strike Back: An Esoteric Reading of The Last Jedi
by Caleb and Samantha CohoeThe Last Jedi is a sociopolitical meta-commentary on the failures of the baby boomers. Continue Reading »
The Last Jedi is a sociopolitical meta-commentary on the failures of the baby boomers. Continue Reading »
I, Tonya lets you see yourself in a woman who bitterly recalls how she became a criminal and a punchline. Continue Reading »
Zack Snyder's D.C. superhero films offer skillful, thoughtful, even spiritual popular culture. Continue Reading »
Star Wars: The Last Jedi offers a picture of heroism that helps us better understand how to witness to hope and truth in our own galaxy. Continue Reading »
The gripping film The Unknown Girl shows us a world where guilty people are desperate for the freedom granted by confession. Continue Reading »
Here's a list of films for young girls—movies that show strong female characters with the kind of energy, intelligence, wit, and initiative our daughters hope to develop themselves. Continue Reading »
The theme of Wonder Woman is “she persisted,” but, thankfully, not in the sense that feminists give those words these days. Continue Reading »
I caught Star Wars: The Force Awakens with my family over the past weekend. Before we got to the scrolling text on starry background (greeted by audience cheers) we were bombarded by trailers, mostly for movies about aliens blowing things up, with the occasional detour into mutants and/or Egyptian . . . . Continue Reading »
Mars, the Red Planet, has stoked the imagination of stargazers for a long, long time. Could life exist on our planetary neighbor? Most recently, NASA announced that it appears that liquid water, at least occasionally, flows there. A manned landing is certainly within the realm of possibility. . . . . Continue Reading »
Rome is the foundation of the University of Notre Dame architecture and urban design curriculum, and properly so. Nevertheless, every year for the past ten years I have traveled from Notre Dame to meet a new class of graduate urban design students (themselves up from Rome on spring break) for a week in the small historic city of Bruges. Where is Bruges? It’s in Belgium. Continue Reading »
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