Rethink.

Spoilers galore ahead The greatest Bond movie ever made – I think that, and I don’t particularly like Daniel Craig – and a necessary anti-Bourne corrective. Its themes pick up directly from Goldeneye: Is there a need for spies in the post-Cold War world? What is patriotism if the nation-state makes trained killers from orphans? …

Blah blah blah Hansel and Gretel is misogynistic & “witch hunt” is offensive & the whole thing is just one joke & blah blah blah I don’t know how to go to the movies and have some damn fun (h/t Ricky McAllister) I’ll give Moviebob, whose video review is linked above, credit for one of …

Spoilers ahead. Go watch Gattaca if you haven’t already. Earlier this week, I was wondering about the division of all human knowing into two: theoretical philosophy and political science. It’s a division Maimonides uses in his Logic, a work which seems to be about the recovery of political philosophy. I remarked to Nathaniel that maybe …

Spoilers galore ahead. Yes, posting will resume the 20th. I’m making an exception because – well, you’ll see. On “Inception:” a meditation on trust and sacrifice. Those issues are explored through faith and reason. The movie is filled with extraordinarily clever and competent people and a curious device that allows them to give someone a …

“Up” is difficult to write about, because despite the fact that it is very much for adults, it is essentially a kid’s movie: it is a parable. Everything in “Up” is obvious, and there aren’t questions to tease out and address. Instead, it’s a powerful moral statement that plays on sentiment so as to educate …