Superman turned 80 recently and the NY Times went with a dad joke to mark the occasion.  For my part this seems an opportune time to offer up one of my more unpopular film opinions: 2017’s Justice League, widely panned by critics[1], is a better movie than the critical consensus would have you believe.  This is largely because the movie eventually starts to get Superman right and that is important.[2] First, though, the caveats:  Don’t misunderstand me – this is... Read more

This piece is written as a companion to episode 14 of The Pop Culture Coram Deo Podcast and, like that episode (which you can play below, contains numerous spoilers. Read on at your own discretion. There were several times during my in-theater viewing of A Quiet Place where I was sorely tempted to stand up and applaud Emily Blunt’s character Evelyn Abbott. I realize this is strange praise for a horror movie but nonetheless: I don’t think I’ve ever seen... Read more

This piece is written as a companion to episode 11 of The Pop Culture Coram Deo Podcast and, like that episode (which you can play below, contains numerous spoilers. Read on at your own discretion. Where did we come from? What happens when we die? These are among the most fundamental questions of human existence. We should note too: these questions are necessarily questions of imagination.  Both questions are unanswerable by our own experience and thus we have to speculate... Read more