Imagine being an American soldier sent to Vietnam to fight the militarized Marxist Communists there. The Vietnam War provides many examples ...

In Intro to Film courses, Citizen Kane (1941) and His Girl Friday (1940) typically play major roles in the teaching of film-analysis. Hid...

While a student at Yale, I took Charlie Musser’s seminar on documentary films on a whim, after having taken two courses oriented to film nar...

The early film , Forbidden (1932), asks the viewers to sympathize with a married politician and his mistress, who together have a “love chi...

The musical group, R.E.M.’s most popular song is arguably “Losing My Religion.” The first two lines of the lyrics are, “Life, it’s bigger; I...

The medium of film is capable of bringing nuances of power to audiences, even when the story-world is steeped in autocracy and totalitariani...

The film, Equals (2015), presents a fictional story in which people in “the collective” are deemed healthy by the health and safety “police...

I contend that religion and science are two distinct and unique domains, and thus qualitatively different. It follows that they have their o...

If viewers can get past Hercule Poirot’s extraordinarily long (and awful) mustache in the 2017 film, Murder on the Orient Express , listenin...

Although a sequel to The Da Vinci Code (2006) and also directed by Ron Howard and written in part by Dan Brown, Angels & Demons (2009)...

Although no overtly theological or religious material is in the film  Awake (2007) because greed itself is the real antagonist, idolatry (s...

In the film, Civil War (2024), Texas and California have “tecaexited” the U.S., to use the European recondite ideological parlance for sece...

There comes a point in the film, Eichmann (2007), which is based on Avner Less’s series of interviews with Adolf Eichmann in an Israeli jai...

In 2025, when the film, Enzo , was released, Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine was still in progress before being overshadowed in the med...

As the protagonists in the film, Iván & Hadoum (2026), neither Iván nor Hadoum, who fall in love, are heterosexuals even though by all ...

The original title of the 2009 film, The String , is Le Fil , which actually translates as thread rather than string. These two English word...

Even though The Pledge (2001) is murder-mystery film, it is fundamentally a tragedy without regard to the murder. Jack Nicholson plays Jerr...

If there is a time and context that shows dramatically how stark economic inequality can be, the years immediately following the Wall Street...

Lest the dystopian subtype of science fiction be taken too literally as a predictor of how human civilization will be likely to turn out, th...

In the film,  The Scarlet and the Black   (1983), Gregory Peck and Christopher Plummer face off as Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty and Col. Herber...