“All Us Annotations”  (or Quick-set Thoughts on Leaving Behind The Voluminous Footnotes for Ulysses)

Upon finishing “Proteus”, the third chapter of James Joyce’s book

Tugging at his feet (as unseen chains

Beneath opaque water moor the skiff), …

Right here you can find an extended review of the terrific documentary In the Realms of the Unreal directed by Jessica Yu – about the life and work of the consummate “outsider artist,” the mysterious Henry Darger, who is believed …

Go here to find a survey of the wild and wacky Japanese counterculture films of the 60′s and 70′s at GreenCine.

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An extended review of Robert Kramer’s counter-culture masterpiece “Milestones.”…

This is an in-depth article on the very disturbing and effective film A Serbian Film from The Boston Phoenix in 2011.…

An article at GreenCine looking at various version of Jesus in cinema, including Passion of The Christ and Passolini’s The Gospel According To Saint Matthew.…

At the blog “Film Studies for Free” author Catherine Grant provides a useful and in-depth biblography and extended list of resources for examining the psyche and film, inspired by the Minds In Progress article at GreenCine.…

Surprisingly Spiritual Films: Bad Lieutenant

By Simon Augustine

Abel Ferrara is the kind of director who may be the last person you would expect to make a serious-minded, even devout, Christian film.  Ferrara, like fellow filmmaker Martin Scorsese, built his …

Surprisingly Spiritual Films: Elite Squad

By Simon Augustine

“When you pass through, no one can pin you down, no one can call you back.”

- Yung-An

In Rio de Janiero, the ghettos are ruled by two things: stunning poverty, and …

A review of the cult disco travesty “The Apple” from Stop Smiling  Magazine.…

A review of Cronos from Not Coming To A Theatre Near You.…

A review of the 70s era cult vietnam horror film Deathdream from Not Coming To A Theater Near You’s 31 Days of  Horror.…

Here is a brief list of 8 of the most effective explorations of Buddhism in cinema, published originally at GreenCine.

Some reponses and commentary can be found here.…

Here is an incendiary short review of Fat Girl and a litany of very funny and combative comments that it precipitated at the website Not Coming To A Theater Near You.…

This is an extended article called Minds In Progress: Mental Illness In American Cinema written for GreenCine.…

This is the introduction to a long piece called Disturbing Night At The Movies, which was originally published on Halloween night in 2009 and became the most read article in the history of GreenCine, a well-known film culture website …

A short review of Michael Keaton’s terrific and overlooked film The Merry Gentleman.…

An in-depth look at the portrayal of writers and poets in cinema can be found in this article from GreenCine in 2007.…