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It’s easy to get wrapped up in the theological side of The Last…
The Scorsese Experience: The Last Temptation of Christ, Part One
My image of God needs breaking from time to time. He breaks it Himself. He…
Gloria Dei est vivens homo: THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
“You don’t make up for your sins in church. You do it on the streets.…
Elliott Carter: the Last Modernist
Pictured: Igor Stravinsky (l.) and Elliott Carter The ideal has many names, and beauty is…
Celebrating the Living: Willem Dafoe
My ten-year-old son asked if he’d seen anything Willem Dafoe was in. This is increasingly…
Playing Hot Peas and Butter: J. John Aquino on CROOKLYN and a Solute Gifts Soundtrack Mix
Every July and December, I look forward to the Solute movie gift exchange. I’ve gotten…
But we demand the Flame: the Book of J (the Solute Book Club)
Header image by Dikla Laor, used by permission.¹ Title from Emily Dickinson, used because I could.…
Movie Gifts Holidays 2021: The List
You know that thrill you got as a kid when the thought hit you out…
Year of the Month: SHUTTER ISLAND
Spoilers ahead Shutter Island seems on the face of it like a textbook minor work…
Year of the Month: Mr. Apollo on BIRDY
Like the William Wharton novel it’s based on, Alan Parker’s film Birdy is concerned with…