American History X is an in-depth, often-brutal look at a white supremacist subculture in southern California. Danny Vinyard, a high-school student, is asked to…
Jeremy Huggins
Jeremy Clive Huggins is currently adding to his resume of entirely unmarketable college degrees an MFA Creative Nonfiction at Eastern Washington University in eastern Washington. He'll write about anything, but if you find yourself needing an essay on biblical language tattoos, Dodge Darts, or circumcision, he’s your man.
Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
Having grown up with a cold mother and an emotionally absent father, Amélie, a young Parisian woman with a great capacity for love, has…
Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
One day, several lives, a lot of pain, and one thing connecting them all. Are they connected by their misery, by chance, by blood,…
Discernment Exercise: Would Jesus Smoke?
I remember three things about the church I attended from 1976-1979. The first involves scary pastor-portraits in the hallway. The second, roller skating to…