Timothy Lawrence

Perhaps the most iconic scene in The Matrix (even more than “I know kung fu”) comes at the end of the first act. The disaffected...

In December of 2019, at the close of a decade, Star Wars came to an end – from a certain point of view, at least....

“Every act of imitation is an act of becoming,” according to Joshua Gibbs. The role of a teacher can be thought of in these terms....

Virtually all of James Cameron’s films revolve around familial relationships. The Terminator and Aliens are about motherhood. Terminator 2: Judgment Day shifts the focus of...

Out of all the many charges leveled against the Star Wars sequel trilogy, perhaps the loudest, most persistent, and most widely accepted is the accusation...

I was so full of sleep just at that point / when I first left the way of truth behind. – Dante, Inferno “The Hardy...

…that through death He might… release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. Hebrews 2:14-15 Star Wars is many...

If I take the wings of the morning, / And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, Even there Your hand shall lead me,...

Martin Scorsese, cinema’s most famously tortured lapsed Catholic, is always making movies about the three enemies of the soul: the world, the flesh, and the...

Thus saith the Lord; a voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted, because they...