Gawain and the Green Knight (2021) Review
I watched Gawain and the Green Knight over the weekend and wow there’s a lot to unpack. The movie was excellent (in my possibly unpopular opinion), though it definitely diverged from the original story and…
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Why Do We Care About the Black Dahlia?
When I first heard the name “The Black Dahlia”, it was in reference to the 2006 film. Based on critiques I heard from other students, I inferred only that it was an uncomfortably explicit movie…
The Magician’s Land
Summary: Quentin Coldwater has been cast out of Fillory, the secret magical land of his childhood dreams. With nothing left to lose, he returns to where his story began, the Brakebills Preparatory College of Magic,…
Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James Summary: A very young woman’s first job: governess for two weirdly beautiful, strangely distant, oddly silent children, Miles and Flora, at a forlorn estate…An estate haunted by…
Evil (2019) TV Series Season 1 Review
Satan, psychopaths, and a demon named…George? A psychologist and a priest walk into an exorcism. Both have different opinions on what’s wrong with the “possessed”, but who’s right? That’s the sort of question every…
What is Witchcraft, Really?
The word witchcraft is thrown around a lot these days. It shows up in television, movies, tv, books, and in the rapidly growing world we describe with umbrella terms like new age or pagan. Some…