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Aliens, humanity, and God: In ‘Disclosure Day,’ Spielberg still wants to believe

Disclosure Day is a heady distillation of just about everything that Steven Spielberg has to say as a filmmaker. The foundational classics Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. The Extraterrestrial are here, of course, with their blen...

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Science fiction and transcendence: ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ and the elusiveness of awe

My review of Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day is coming! In the meantime, here’s an essay from the archives, from 2023, about science fiction and transcendence, and how the genre often reaches for the kind of profound, consciousness-alteri...

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‘Babe’ meets ‘Knives Out’ and a belated ‘Knives Out’ interview with Rian Johnson

Not for the first time, I owe Decent Films Substack readers an apology for neglecting to post a link to a piece from several months back! All the way back in January, after my enthusiastic review of the Knives Out threequel Wake Up Dead Man...

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Benoit Blanc goes to church: Mysteries and faith in ‘Wake Up Dead Man’

About two-thirds of the way through Wake Up Dead Man—the exhilarating third installment in Rian Johnson’s Knives Out series starring Daniel Craig as gentleman sleuth Benoit Blanc—a young priest makes a phone call to a local family-owned bus...

6 months ago
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Are there too many Jesus movies?

Nicolas Cage in The Carpenter’s Son

Six Jesus-themed movies in one year? Three sets of Jesus-themed “twin movies”?! What’s going on? For U.S. Catholic magazine, I wrote about the proliferation of Jesus entertainment—and what I called the “...

8 months ago
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    Steven D. Greydanus is a Catholic deacon, a film critic, and a high-school theology teacher. He also Substacks at https://greydanus.substack.com/.

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