Film
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Children’s films tend to emphasize the role of destiny or chance, but existential themes can be found in a few that highlight the importance of…
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Stuck in the conflict between two worldviews, the Dude offers a pragmatic third way forward for the postmodern world.
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P.L. Travers, who hung out with British mystics and studied alongside a Zen Buddhist master, would have approved of the Mary Poppins sequel.
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A cinematic masterpiece, ‘The Dark Knight’ is filled with insights into empathy and building emotional resiliency after childhood trauma.
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Geek girls are vying for top-billing in a culture that used to ignore them and now frequently makes self-deprecating jokes about male geeks’ inability to…
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Contemporary popular media seems to be powered by the fumes of nostalgia, and doesn’t appear to be changing course anytime soon. When should we let…
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The actions, nonetheless, of our parents and the mentors of our youth bear heavily on our psychological, social, and neurological development.