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A novelist, creative writing professor, and film critic at the intersection of film, music, writing, faith, and love.

Let’s look at some new trailers and see if we like the smell of what these studios have cooking. Post your reactions, or your new favorite trailers, in the Comments.

First, a note of thanks to those who have, over the last quarter of a century, been extremely generous in helping me build and sustain this record of writing on art and faith. Above all, thanks to La...

James P. Carse, from Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility: Storytellers do not convert their listeners; they do not move them into the territory of a superior truth. …