I think that you are right to say that Satan is, in part a portrait of Cromwell (among other things). However, I think it is wrong to say that Milton was of Satan's party politically. There is a lot to be said of Cromwell's legacy, but I get the sense that Milton wish to give form to the idea that Cromwell was a…
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Curious what you consider modern Bruce. When I think of recent Sprinsteen albums, I think of the The Rising or something like that which, to my ear at least, has the feel and quality of an especially bad U2 album.
"…every scene in a movie should accomplish a piece of the larger ongoing narrative." Hulk is being kind of vague…Does he mean that every scene should be integral to the plot and be moving the story along? The meeting between the blind Gloucester and Lear does not advance the plot at all, but it is still the most…
The only two Scorsese movie that I genuinely love are Mean Streets and Taxi Driver. And sometimes I have come close to wavering on the former. Most of his movies do not, at least for me, get into the guts of the matter. The Wolf of Wall Street was, again for me, another plastic Martin movie. American Hustle I…
I disagree, I thought that "American Hustle" was the most enjoyable movie of the year. I do not know what you mean by writing, "…it will be one of those films that slips from other people's minds…" Don't all movies slip from peoples minds after the Oscars are over unless they win, say, 20 awards? Most of us cannot…
Love the inclusion of Bateman, but not diggin' the respect shown to Garden State, that movie is garbage.
That is what C.S. Lewis pretty much said. He said that, if one has a worldview that includes witchcraft as an everyday part of reality, then of course burning them alive is a sensible course of action for a dutiful Christian to take. In other words, the Salem witch trials were terrible, not because people were…
I think those lyrics are from the Lou Reed version.
Though I have come to the conclusion after looking at some of the stills that this is undoubtedly true, I cannot see the phrase, "she looks great drenched in viscera," without felling some concern for the author.