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Goodbye to the “Guardians”

Goodbye to the “Guardians”

Guardians of the Galaxy is not only still my favorite movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but, when it came out, it was one of my favorite films of 2014 (part of a Chris Pratt one-two punch with The Lego Movie). Director and co-writer James Gunn and company made a movie that still fit well in the MCU and its CGI-powered spectacle, but also gave us characters that we could really care about because they came to care about each other. While Volume 2 was…not my favorite, that and the Infinity Saga Avengers movies gave us more time to spend with this ragtag, irreverent group of “heroes.” Now, with Gunn heading up the DC film universe and some of the stars saying that they are done, we have now reached what appears to be the end of the Guardians, at least in this form. And, while it’s not a great film, Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 still gives us the humor, emotion, and great soundtrack that has made this found family of castoffs worth watching in the first place.

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When the Surreal Becomes the Rational: “Knock at the Cabin” and Believing the “Unbelievable”

When the Surreal Becomes the Rational: “Knock at the Cabin” and Believing the “Unbelievable”

M. Night Shyamalan has not shied away from the intersection of faith and rationality. From Cole’s ability to see the dead in The Sixth Sense to Father Graham’s realization of the prophetic in Signs to the weight of mortality crashing down on the beachgoers in Old, Shyamalan’s brand of horror/thriller regularly dwells in the space where its characters are faced with the inexplicable becoming their reality and must choose how to deal with it. In his latest, Knock at the Cabin, Shyamalan makes the entire movie about the choice to accept the unbelievable when the unbelievable becomes the unavoidable.

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