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Film Journal 2024: The King Tide Directed by Christian Sparkles I tried hard to catch this in theaters but couldn’t make it work. Was happy to catch up with it now that it’s on VOD and Hoopla, as it felt like it would be my kind of movie. It has elements of horror, drama, spiritualContinue reading “Film Journal 2024: The King Tide”

Film Journal 2024: Lost in Tomorrow Directed by Kellen Gibbs A quaint and lovely hidden gem. It feels a bit uncertain in the early going, but once the premise kicks in, following a young girl struggling to fit in at school and at home as she finds herself lost in tomorrow, it is quite affecting.Continue reading “Film Journal 2024: Lost in Tomorrow”

Film Journal 2024: Footnotes Directed by Chris Leary Low budget indie that makes decent use of its script and its performances. You can tell the film wants to dig deep, to explore the nuances behind the standard romantic drama beats. It doesn’t fully realize its potential on that front, trading a drive for clarity andContinue reading “Film Journal 2024: Footnotes”

I was sent this Episode recently of the Exra Klein Show titled Your Mind Is Being Fracked, along with a strong recommendation to give it a listen.Great episode. Highly worth a listen for anyone interested in the subject of attention, particularly as it relates to our present social media age. There’s a natural progression to theContinue reading “The Fracking of the Mind, The Problem of the Self, and the War For Our Attention: The Ezra Klein Show In Review”

Reading Journal 2024: Winesburg, OhioAuthor: Sherwood Anderson Winesburg, Ohio could be described as; chronically melancholic, cynical, depressing. Those descriptives might be true, or at least partly true, but I think it would be a mistake to suggest that this is all the book is. As a collection of short stories that are bound together byContinue reading “Reading Journal 2024: Winesburg, Ohio”

Reading Journal 2024: Selfie: How The West Became Self-ObsessedAuthor: Will Storr“All we ever wanted was the illusion of control. But we have none, not really. Neither do the people around us who seem so intimidating in all their radiant perfection. Ultimately we can all take comfort in the understanding that they aren’t actually perfect, andContinue reading “Conversations About the Western Self: Common Themes in Will Storrs Selfie and Mann’s Inside Out 2”

I penned this a while back. A pair of sermon series podcasts brought it back to mind- The Crystal Sea by Greg Boyd, in which he talks about all of life, and indeed all of creation, in its finite perspective catching up to what God says is already true of it, and Darrell Johnson’s HavingContinue reading “A Thought Revisted: Students, buses, religion and philosophy: Finding Fresh Context to Consider Finiteness and the InfiniteStudents, buses, religion and philosophy: Finding Fresh Context to Consider Finiteness and the Infinite”

Film Journal 2024: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Directed by Wes Ball Set generations after the events of War, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes positions itself both directly within the timeline of the aformentioned trilogy while also establishing its own storyline. I admit, I was very uncertain heading into this one,Continue reading “Film Journal 2024: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”

Film Journal 2024: Evil Does Not ExistDirected by Ryūsuke Hamaguchi Evil Does Not Exist is a fascinating study of the ways in which simple ideas and experiences can inspire the genesis of a story. And more specifically in the case of the filmmaker, how different aspects of the form can drive a story’s function. TheContinue reading “Film Journal 2024: Evil Does Not Exist”

Film Journal 2024: The Last Stop in Yuma County Directed by Francis Galluppi I wish we were given more character development. There was plenty of space sitting around at the restaurant for this to happen through dialogue and back story. Stylistically it’s going for something different however, drawing out a situational thriller in a wayContinue reading “Film Journal 2024: The Last Stop in Yuma County”