List: Movies and Television | Curated by Benjamin Cain

Mar 11, 2024
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Movies and Television
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
Decoding the Cosmic Meaning of the Zombie MotifPersonifications, objectifications, and mystical horror
Feb 2, 2023
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Feb 2, 2023
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The Apeiron Blog
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Benjamin Cain
Assessing the Meaning of Life in Pixar’s “Soul”Can the movie’s life lesson be secularized?
Jul 9, 2021
Jul 9, 2021
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Cave Light
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Benjamin Cain
From Pipe to Software: “Brazil” and the Evolution of BureaucraciesThe movie’s relevance to a paperless dystopia
Aug 15, 2021
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Aug 15, 2021
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Cave Light
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Benjamin Cain
Depths of Subversion in “The Green Knight”Exploring the movie’s post-Christian themes
Aug 18, 2021
Aug 18, 2021
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Cave Light
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Benjamin Cain
Outcasts in Cinema: “Saint Maud,” “Kajillionaire,” and “Nomadland”How pop culture reckons with its excesses and victims
Aug 23, 2021
Aug 23, 2021
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Cave Light
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Benjamin Cain
Existential Morality in “Crimes and Misdemeanors”How Woody Allen wrestles with God’s absence in a rotten world
Sep 7, 2021
Sep 7, 2021
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Cave Light
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Benjamin Cain
Intimacy in “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”The movie’s bittersweetness and the primacy of selfish love
Sep 29, 2021
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Sep 29, 2021
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Cave Light
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Benjamin Cain
Technopower and Strange Salvation in “Dune”How entheogens might have to rescue us from our demonic future worlds
Oct 29, 2021
Oct 29, 2021
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An Injustice!
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Benjamin Cain
“Barbie” Should Have Been More ExistentialIt’s “literally impossible” to be either a woman or a man
Mar 10, 2024
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Mar 10, 2024
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Cave Light
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Benjamin Cain
Revelatory Monologues in “Amanda Knox”How a documentary uses its characters’ vices against them to present the deeper truth
Aug 28, 2021
Aug 28, 2021
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Cave Light
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Benjamin Cain
Hyperreality In “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain”Bourdain’s life, suicide, and quasi-enlightened alienation
Sep 2, 2021
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Sep 2, 2021
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Cave Light
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Benjamin Cain
The Rajneeshees’ Unmasking of American Hypocrisy in “Wild Wild Country”How a documentary series shows that American culture is unlikely to be upgraded
Sep 20, 2021
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Sep 20, 2021
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Cave Light
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Benjamin Cain
The Parody of Religion in “Midnight Mass”Skepticism about the origin of religions
Oct 7, 2021
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Oct 7, 2021
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Lotus Fruit
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Benjamin Cain
Rick and Morty: The Cosmic Horror of Perfected ScienceRick and Morty against the optimism of new atheists
Nov 19, 2019
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Nov 19, 2019
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
A Toast to Trustworthy Movie ReviewsLet’s take a moment to appreciate that disappearing art form
Aug 19, 2022
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Aug 19, 2022
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