Everyday Liminality

Little Miss Sunshine is a wonderful tragi-comedy about a dysfunctional family forced on a road trip together. While it is their common goal of arriving at their destination that initially holds them together, it is in their disillusionment with the goal that ultimately changes them for the better and makes them a healthier family.

Horror movies are always about reckoning with something we have suppressed or believed gone for good--a demon, vampire, werewolf, etc. But when you think about it, the scariest thing that we ever have to reckon with is ourselves. Jordan Peele explores this concept in the movie Us by having literal doubles of the main characters appear with a choice: either deal with your dark side or be destroyed by it.

Even those who do the worst things have the capacity to be heroic. Even those who do heroic work are still capable of major sins. That's what the movie Crash captures so well.

Anime is an incredibly popular genre in the world of entertainment. In this episode, Br. Tito introduces Fr. Casey to the genre by way of the 1988 movie Akira.

This election day, you might be looking for a small escape from your current reality. If so, check out the 1993 movie Dave, which offers a view of politics far from our own, one that asks, "Could we simply elect a good person for once?"