(Updated, Revised, and Expanded for This Reality!) Alternative timelines are popping up like dandelions over the neighborhood lawns these days in the MCU and DCU franchises. Deadpool & Wolverine is just the latest in the trend. But it’s not just the comic book movies. For example, Twin Peaks: the Return (2017), Once Upon A…
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The Message of Frozen 2: Get Your Loves In Order! (Why Everyone Is Wrong About Frozen, Part Two).
“A body by its weight tends to move toward its proper place…My weight is my love: wherever I am carried, my love is carrying me.” – Saint Augustine. “I can sense you there / Like a friend I’ve always known / I’m arriving / And it feels like I’m home.” – Elsa, “Show Yourself” (lyrics…
A Principled Princess Turns Twenty-Five. The Swan Princess: An Appreciation
The true Cinderella story of animated princess films is not to be found in Disney’s Cinderella but in the real-life story of Disney rival Richard Rich’s The Swan Princess. Overlooked at its box office ball of 1994 (the belle of that ball being the re-released The Lion King), The Swan Princess has, over the years,…
Frozen 2: The Gospel According to Olaf
“But that the dead are raised, Moses showed in the account of the (burning) bush…God is not a God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him” – Jesus Christ “Water has memory” – Olaf, Frozen 2 “I think there are some really spiritual, sort-of existential, themes about it that I…
Why Everyone is Wrong About Frozen. Part One: The Movie No One Ever Sees
“An argument that presumes to question the unquestioned and to wander some distance from the steady paths of received truth…cannot reasonably hope to be popular.” — Henry Knight Miller, Preface to Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones and the Romantic Tradition. Almost ten years now after Frozen debuted, and, amazingly, most of the world has yet to…