Eight Months
Tomorrow will make eight months. How can that be? The phrase, "I lost my mom a couple months ago" is still the one on the tip of my...
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Bold, Brechtian Predictions for a Bronterockin New Year
You can spot a McKay from the first quirky, outsider, genius-in-headphones rapping/jamming their way through life and Don't Look Up is...
Patrilineal Problem Solving: Can-Do Courage, Clock Towers, and Taking the Past Out of the Present
Back to the Future by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale In Act 1, we meet Marty McFly – spunky, rebellious, energetic, and decidedly...
Masculinity, Mayhem to Moral: Rules, Rituals, and Integrative Initiations in The Art of Self-Defense
The Art of Self-Defense by Riley Stearns SPOILERS AHEAD. Act accordingly. The draft of screenplay that I read – though not the film –...
An Initiation into Intimacy, a Fear of the Feminine: Lars and the Real Girl
I spent a while hung up on, and unsure about what photo to use as the cover-shot for this post. I worry, already, that the film itself is...
The Power of Belief: The Motivated and The Possessed
A Fanatic A quarter of the way into The Dark Knight Rises, Bruce has begun experimenting with some new gadgets and Alfred warns against...
Don't Hide Your Spiders in the Dark! Meaning, Magic, and Metaphor for the Scarred and Seeking
We just finished The Chamber of Secrets, and as per usual, Rowling’s brilliance astounds. Major takeaways that I’ll briefly unpack in...
On Endings: Synthesis, Triumph, and Where the Tween Might Meet
In 2017, Academy Award–winning screenwriter Michael Arndt put together and published (FOR FREE!) what I found to be an almost...