7 Edifying Films to Watch This Fall
For discerning audiences looking for an edifying film to watch this fall, either at home or in the multiplex, Brett McCracken shares seven recommendations.
‘Indiana Jones’: Fading Magic in a Secular Age
The five central ‘artifacts’ in the ‘Indiana Jones’ series tell a story of gradual disenchantment in our secular age: science replacing the supernatural.
‘Past Lives’: Mature Wisdom in an Indie Romance
‘Past Lives’ is a very un-Hollywood love story, which is what makes it so beautiful and wise.
Why Multiverse Stories Let Us Down
New movies ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ and ‘The Flash’ reinforce why the multiverse plot is bad for cinematic drama and unsatisfying as an answer to the meaning crisis in secular modernity.
Is Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ a Trans Fable?
Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ contains themes and assumptions that, if not explicitly advocating LGBT+ sexual ethics, at least provide ideological scaffolding for them.
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