Now usually when a a year gets declared the "best year in movies" I roll my eyes simply because such a claim usually is highly subjective at best and hyperbolic at worst. And yet, 1999 inarguably deserves to be a contender in the conversation. Just to give you a taste of how great this year …
Let me state this from the offset: there are probably many, many more movies that could and should be on this list. I just haven't gotten around to seeing them, partly out of my own lazy inertia (which I will completely own) but mostly because the movie industry has for most of its existence been …
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Alice in Wonderland stands as the progenitor of one of the great storytelling traditions where regular humans find themselves stumbling into weird and wonderful fantasy worlds. Sometimes this happens for entirely superflous reasons but frequently these jaunts into the fantasy world help illuminate our own world in profoundly tangential ways. As this list will show, following …
The "Christ Figure" is one of the most common tropes of cinema. It also has the reputation, at least among faith and film circles, to be an eye-rolling one because the Christ Figure has propensity to dominate the discussion of any one particular film whenever it is present. But there is something remarkable about the …
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It is hard to overstate just how big a deal The Matrix was when it first came out. The sci-fi action thriller seemed to perfectly combine heady philosophical concepts with kick-ass action. It's dystopic world was at once wonderfully alien and also shockingly not so far from ours. It felt completely relevant to reality at the end …
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