Divine Love

This is a film review of Divine Love (2019) directed by Gabriel Mascaro

Burden

This is a film review of Burden (2020) directed by Andrew Heckler

Save Yourselves!

This is a film review of Save Yourselves! (2020), directed by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

This is a film review of A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), directed by Marielle Heller

Fourth Biennial VisionMaker Film Festival Report

This article reviews films that were screened at the Fourth Biennial VisionMaker Film Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska, in September and October of 2011

The Return: Life After ISIS

This is a film review of The Return: Life After ISIS (2021), directed by Alba Sotorra Clua

Women Is Losers

This is a film review of Women Is Losers (2021), directed by Lissette Feliciano

Eternal Now: Recent Time Loop Movies and the Sanctity of the Moment

I will examine three time-loop films—Source Code (2011), About Time (2013), and Before I Fall (2017)—to suggest that while they all look to this world as the place where meaning can be found, they do not entirely reject transcendence. The hero of Source Code actually transcends the cycle only when he accepts to exist in it fully, suggesting a view like Buddhism that one only finds transcendence when one stops looking for it. In About Time the hero learns that he must accept certain things that he cannot change, and that his ability to relive the past without changing anything is actually the key to happiness and meaning. In Before I Fall, the heroine returns her to the day before her death repeatedly to work out her own salvation through redemptive action. In different ways, each film suggests how meaning can be found through an awareness of the eternal now

Bagdad on Fire

This is a film review of Bagdad on Fire (2023), directed by Karrar Al-Azzawi

The Persian Version

This is a film review of The Persian Version (2023), directed by Maryam Keshavarz