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“Many people today assume that Christianity is one or more of these things – a religion, a moral system, a philosophy. In other words, they assume that Christianity is about advice. But it wasn’t and isn’t. Christianity is, simply, good news. It is the news that something has happened as a result of which theContinue reading “A Wednesday Word | 6/23/2021”

To this point, this blog has largely consisted of my reviews and reflections on films I have taken in, from the angle of their intersection with faith and spirituality. This is something I hope to continue moving forward, so be sure to subscribe to keep in the loop on that sort of content! That said,Continue reading “New Series: “A Wednesday Word””

Release Date: May 28th, 2021 Director: John Krasinski | MPAA Rating: PG-13 | LeavittLens Rating: 6.5 As a world, few films in recent memory have created a cinematic experience quite like the post-apocalyptic reality of John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place series. Particularly in a filmscape inundated by loud, excessive, and often indulgent shows of actionContinue reading “A Quiet Place Part II”

Release Date: May 20th, 2021 Director: Bo Burnham | Rating: TV-MA | LeavittLens Rating: 7.5/10 About ten minutes into Bo Burnham’s latest satire-comedy tour de force, Inside, there is a literal and metaphorical “peek behind the curtain,” a revelatory moment that seems to sum up the significance of this nearly 90 minute work. Following anContinue reading “Bo Burnham: Inside”

Release Date: November 20, 2020 Director: Darius Marder | MPAA Rating: R | LeavittLens Rating: 9.5/10 We live in a Western world overrun by noise. Our ears and our eyes are bombarded by voices, by images, by information, often leaving us with a spirit of stated or unstated discontent. We allow these voices to defineContinue reading “Sound of Metal”

Symptoms: My fever has come down over the course of the last two days, never even remotely approaching the 104.3 of Wednesday this week. Chest congestion has persisted, as have fatigue and a small sore throat. I continue to drink regular fluids and have stayed off of any other medication. Thus far I have beenContinue reading “COVID Chronicle: Day 3”

Release Date: December 25th, 2020 Director: Pete Docter | MPAA Rating: PG | LeavittLens Rating: 9.5/10 (If you haven’t seen Soul yet, you may want to wait to read this until you have watched it in full). When I first heard the news that Pete Docter–writer of perhaps the most emotional, existential, and thought-provoking filmsContinue reading “Soul”

Well, friends, I have contracted the dreaded and maligned disease of our day, COVID-19. Since I will be quarantining for the next 10 days or so, and since I will likely have much time on my hands, I felt compelled to chronicle a bit of my experience with this terrible, microscopic demon, if for nothingContinue reading “COVID Chronicle: Day 1”

In a year that began with many organizations and companies discussing the importance of “vision” and “direction,” bringing double meaning to the numbers 2020, we are wrapping the year with a striking, months-long realization: we don’t have the vision we once thought we did. Indeed, 2020 has been characterized far more by loss than vision,Continue reading “LeavittLens’ Top 10 Films of 2020”

Release Date: September 4th, 2020 Director: Charlie Kaufman | MPAA Rating: R | LeavittLens Rating: 7/10 “Cogito, ergo sum.” -Rene Descartes There is an innately disorienting element to the human experience, one that can often paralyze us in the midst of introspective reflection. Because we assume we are capable of perceiving what is real andContinue reading “I’m Thinking of Ending Things”