You’re gonna have to deal with this privately. No outside influences, just you and God.

A cursory search on Google about "burning sugar cane" returns numerous results about the practice's harmful effects, a tactic whose purpose is to rid the leaves of an outer layer considered to be "trash." Listening to the literary voiceovers that pervade Burning Cane - much less the considered responses given by Phillip Youmans in promotional interviews - it's clear the writer-director possesses a maturity beyond…

I observe the facts without biases of the head or heart.

God, you're not much of a detective are you?

Well, to be fair, you make a pretty lousy murderer. Perhaps we deserve each other.

Murder mystery conventions dictate that the audience make assumptions. Which culprit appears the shiftiest? Which the cleverest? Which the most honest? Racial and economic prejudices rely on the same kind of assumptive logic; that someone can be judged by their outward appearances. (My director man…

As much as the third Indiana Jones film is about obsessive tendencies (concisely indicated by the hard cut between young and old Indy, both fighting for the Cross of Coronado), it is also about transference of knowledge. That is to say, where the Nazis burn books, Henry Jones shares them with his son. Indy is a testament to the teachings of his father, following in his academic footsteps and displaying a number of the same personality traits; he's been shaped…

A personal aside before the review: The Alamo Drafthouse in Kansas City continues its run as the most impressive theater in the area by providing a free, early screening of Fury Road, entirely making my week!

Technology and budgetary financing has finally caught up with George Miller's horrifying vision of the post-apocalyptic future! The opening sequence of Mad Max: Fury Road deposits the viewer into a world akin to hell. Immortan Joe's cliffside community is nearly a broadly comedic division…