Release: 1967 Director: Jacque Tati Starring: Jacque Tati Runtime: 127 min On his way to an important meeting in a futuristic, hyper-consumerist version of Paris, bumbling Monsieur Hurlot soon finds himself lost inside of a complex, multileveled building and eventually among the streets of the city at night, meanwhile crossing paths with an American tourist …
Release: 2016 Directed by: Travis Knight Starring: Art Parkinson, Charlize Theron, Matthew McConaughey, Ralph Fiennes Runtime: 102 min From acclaimed stop-motion studio Laika (Coraline, Paranorman, The Boxtrolls) comes a riveting and original tale pulling influence from Japanese folklore and the films of Hayao Miyazaki and Akira Kurosawa. Living with and caring for his mentally ill …
Release: 2015 Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu Starring: Leonardo Dicaprio, Tom Hardy Runtime: 156 minutes Based on the book by the same name by Michael Punke, which is based off the real life events in the life of frontiersman Hugh Glass, The Revenant stars Leonardo Dicaprio as Glass, and Tom Hardy as fellow frontiersman, John Fitzgerald. …
Every once in a while, in this vast world of ours, I come across a mystifying sight to behold. Be it the wonder of the Niagara Falls, or the history of talent contained within a work of art; I cannot help but be captivated by this thing’s presentation. How did it come to be? What …
I first saw this painting at a retreat house that is now unfortunately closed. (Possibly will have a separate piece about since I have many memories with that place!) Ever since it has always been one of my favorites. Inspired by the Easter story told in Luke 24:13–32, this painting depicts the two disciples walking …
Release: 2016 Director: Dennis Villenueve Starring: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forrest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlberg Runtime: 116 min When 12 mysterious alien ships land on Earth, the leaders of the world are thrown in to a panic. Militaries are deployed and scientists are recruited to find out just what it is the aliens want. Decorated …
There is frost on my window. Just the one half of it. Why only half? How does it form its shapes? Those thin, jagged lines, trailing down the glass, like stitches, cut across with their spiky sides. Do they know I smiled at them? Do they know why? Do I even know why? What was …
Around my bed the demons float “Give us your soul and you’ll get a really cool bowl. All sorts of colors, heats up with a minute. It’s big enough, you can live in it.” To their offer, oh so tempting, oh so sly, I give my thought out and ruminated reply; “Trade life itself for …