Posts Tagged ‘January 23’
MOVIE CORNER: Bones and All
★★✩✩✩ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures 2022 Horror/Romance/Drama By HOWARD MCQUITTER II Howard McQuitter How do I describe Director Luca Guadagnino's film Bones and All? Icky. Unique but macabre. Achingly prosaic. Presents an anemic romance that seems to be not natural. The chemistry between the two lovers is mostly tepid. And cannibalism is the theme where the main characters deliberately prey on other humans for food. Yes, this horror-romance-drama will not be pleasing to your palate. A young woman, Maren (Taylor Russell), realizes she has a need for human flesh (not just blood like vampires). Her propensity for snacking on human flesh gets her in serious trouble at a slumber party when she bites off a girl's finger. Her father (Andre Holland, Moonlight , Passing ) is aware of her affliction and immediately leaves with her to an undisclosed place. Soon he abandons her. Maren is 18 years old and has to fend for herself. She wanders [...]
RETURNING CHAPTER 27: Light Bends to the Heart
By PATRICK CABELLO HANSEL Patrick Cabello Hansel Luz and Angel, with Angelito in tow, stood in front of the day care where they had last seen their daughter Lupe. It seemed like days since they were last there—no, much more than that: years, scores of them, more than a century they had traveled. And yet, in our cold benighted age, it was but a few hours. They still had the scrap of paper that read: Don’t worry. We have your light blessing. You will know where she is. They took it out and looked at it again. This time, they noticed the marks on the bottom of the page. There were two arrows ^ ^ pointing up, and a vertical straight line. next to it. Luz took the note from Angel’s hands, held it to her face, and said: “There’s something missing here.” Angel peered at it. “Or we’re missing something,” he said. They stared at it for a long minute, trying to figure it out. Then their 4 ½ year old son spoke, the one who always seemed to find the [...]
Raise Your Voice: Consider the Time
By PETER MOLENAAR Peter Molenaar As per the familiar Big Bang, the age of our universe is said to be 13.772 billion years (give or take). However, for old timers such as myself, this estimate is disconcerting. For heaven’s sake, what time was it before the beginning of time? Dear astronomers, please consider the possibility that time has no beginning nor end, and therefor, the dimension of time is cyclical in nature. Then please, consider the corollary: our universe will continue to expand but only to a maximum limit, after which, it will (again) contract to its minimal size limit. In other words, the phenomenon of the Big Bang is itself infinitely cyclical in nature. It seems we ponder such things as Christmas and the new year approaches! Is it normal for the ‘philosophical materialist’ to commend the life of Jesus? Well in fact, Jesus actively opposed the exploiters and oppressors of his day. So, the answer is: yes. But, is [...]
