Don’t Look Under the Bed: the Imaginary in Liminal Spaces
Let’s watch another Disney Channel movie! A scary one this time. Don’t Look Under the Bed is a very underrated one, perhaps because it’s the scariest thing I’ve seen on Disney Channel besides Raven...
View ArticleInheriting a Haunted Mansion
The Haunted Mansion is my guilty pleasure favorite Halloween film. I watch it with my sister every year, and this year I had so much fun watching it at my newly purchased writing desk, “summoning” her...
View ArticleOn All Hallow’s Eve When the Moon is Round
Not gonna lie, I thought of writing about this movie because we actually did have a full moon this Halloween. Also because this pandemic feels like a curse, still here because some of us just have to...
View ArticleToothless, Limbo, and the Love of Good Trouble
Maybe it was because nostalgia soothes an anxious adult, maybe it’s because characters in purgatory are getting more and more relateable. Toothless was one of the first films I felt like rewatching...
View ArticleA Monster Calls: the Power of Parables
I cannot recommend this book and this film enough. A Monster Calls is a story by Patrick Ness in which a young boy named Conor is visited by a monster composed out of a yew tree. The monster proves...
View ArticleStranger Than Fiction & Meeting our Maker
Not too long ago, I watched Stranger Than Fiction again and it hit me in a new light. The late movie night was a great reward after a highly productive run of sending submissions out. Even better, the...
View ArticleThe Neighbor’s Window: Romanticism and Gratitude
“The Neighbor’s Window” is a 20 minute short film exploring the human tendency towards comparison, coveting our neighbors, missing “good old days,” wanting what others have, and a renewed perspective...
View ArticleMademoiselle Noir and The Willow Maid: Songs that Tell Stories
What if the man who found Rapunzel was scared of her singing instead of in love at first sight? What if a man insisted on pursuing a fairy he fell in love with, despite the first answer he got? These...
View ArticlePractical Magic and Platonic Love
Well, hello there! I haven’t written on here for well over a year, and it may come as a shocker that I am returning to a christian blog with a movie about witchcraft, having some aroace takeaway from...
View ArticleWhat Remains of the Day: Corpse Bride and Bittersweet Deviance
“With this candle, I will light your way in darkness.” Corpse Bride remains, I believe, Tim Burton’s finest work. I’ve found that even friends who do not normally consider themselves spooky fans have...
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