In a retelling of the proverbial Faustian deal with the devil,  The Mephisto Waltz   (1971) plays out with the deal paying off, as Duncan El...

In the Zhuangzi , how can Zhuangzi possibly know that the fish are happy? To know what it is like to be a bat, a person must be a bat. This ...

Brian De Palma’s film, Obsession (1976), harkens back to Hitchcock’s film, Vertigo (1958) primarily in that resemblances between a charact...

The subfield of comparative religions can be exciting because the beliefs, values, symbols, myths, and rituals can introduce a person to ...

In the Book of Genesis, God makes garments of skin for Adam and Eve and clothes them. Gianfranco Ravasi, a Roman Catholic Cardinal and de f...

Barak Obama had a tendency to modify his manner of speaking, and even his dialect, to fit with his audience. Listening to his speech to the...

At the end of March, 2017, the state of Gujarat in India extended the punishment for slaughtering cows from seven years in prison to lif...

Tom Ford’s approach in screenwriting and directing his first feature film, A Single Man (2009), which is based on Christopher Isherwood’s n...