On Medium: Odysseus Got Lost in Christianity

Here's an article about some insights about Christianity gained from a semi-epic struggle in a movie theater.

On Medium: Is it Better to Die Alone or Surrounded by Loved Ones?

Read on about a clash between movie memes that provide different advice on how to make the best of dying.

On Medium: Understanding the Horror of Liminal Places

Read on about the “Backrooms” phenomenon and the dread of wasted technology.

On Medium: “Barbie” Should Have Been More Existential

Read on for a review of the movie "Barbie," to see why, based on evolutionary psychology and contrary to kneejerk feminism, it's “literally impossible” to be a man too.

On Medium: Is Atheism Just an Excuse to Sin?

Here's an article that exposes some obnoxious, outdated tactics of Christian apologists, such as the demonizing of atheists and the conceit that God's existence is self-evident.

On Medium: The Villain’s Journey Towards Embracing Antisocial Reality

Read on about how the myth of the hero's journey demonizes the existential heroism of renouncing a domesticated life for a dehumanizing immersion in the beyond. 

On Medium: The Wokeness Charade that Stifles Thought and Art

Read on about the ironies of history, and how political correctness stifles debates about art, as in the uproar about Bradley Cooper’s fake nose in the movie “Maestro.”

On Medium: A Toast to Trustworthy Movie Reviews

Here's an article that appreciates the informed, inspired, relevant, entertaining movie review, to an art form that's disappearing in a void of cynicism and disposable contents.

On Medium: The Monstrous God of “Hellbound”

Read on to explore whether Netflix's “Hellbound” is the greatest televised challenge to theistic religion.

On Medium: Technopower and Strange Salvation in “Dune”

Here's an article on how "Dune" suggests that the secret of entheogenic creativity might have to rescue us from the technowizardry of our demonic, superhuman future worlds.

On Medium: The Parody of Religion in “Midnight Mass”

Here's a philosophical exploration of the Netflix series "Midnight Mass," focusing on its parody of how religion likely develops from a dubious source. 

On Medium: Intimacy in “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”

Here's an article about "Eternal Sunshine's" bittersweetness, how the movie's medium reflects its message, and the primacy of selfish love.

On Medium: The Rajneeshees’ Unmasking of American Hypocrisy in “Wild Wild Country”

Here's on article about how a documentary series shows that American culture is unlikely to be upgraded.

On Medium: Existential Morality in “Crimes and Misdemeanors”

Read on about how Woody Allen wrestles with God’s absence in a rotten world: the argument from evil, and comic relief from the incel critique of conventional hypocrisy.

On Medium: Hyperreality In “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain”

Read on about Bourdain’s life, suicide, and quasi-enlightened alienation from drugs, writing, travelling, filming, and fame.

On Medium: Revelatory Monologues in “Amanda Knox”

Here's an article on how a documentary uses its characters’ vices against them to present the deeper truth.

On Medium: Outcasts in Cinema: “Saint Maud,” “Kajillionaire,” and “Nomadland”

Read on about how pop culture reckons with its excesses and victims.

On Medium: Depths of Subversion in “The Green Knight”

An article that explores the movie’s somewhat muddled post-Christian themes, including chivalry, Gnosticism, paganism, deep ecology, and feminism.

On Medium: From Pipe to Software: “Brazil” and the Evolution of Bureaucracies

Read on about the mechanisms of total control, and the relevance of Terry Gilliam's movie to a paperless dystopia.

On Medium: Assessing the Meaning of Life in Pixar’s “Soul”

A philosophical movie review of Pixar's "Soul," and an assessment of whether that film's life lesson can be secularized.