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Rewired on Reads & Reels
Books and movies, untangled for sharper insights and unexpected connections. Perfect for a deep dive or a conversation that actually goes somewhere.
Review: The Idea of You (2024), aka, “Eat Pray Lust... Learn?”
Directed by Michael Showalter | Starring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine Plot? Barely. Lessons? Surprisingly, yes. Anne Hathaway ...
56 minutes ago3 min read
From Jesus to Constantine: A History of Early Christianity by Bart Ehrman (Audible)
Brand Strategy is the New Theology by Someone Who’s Definitely Not a Heretic (but probably is) I never cared much for the Jesus business....
Apr 54 min read
High Drama on Mount Olympus: KAOS and the Curse of Eternal Free Time
Netflix’s KAOS opens with Jeff Goldblum staring at a suspiciously zit-like mark on his divine ass. That’s your first clue: this is not...
Mar 262 min read
Close-Knit and the Quiet Radicalism of Care
On the surface, Close-Kn it (Original title: Karera ga honki de amu toki wa, 2017 ) looks like a cozy Japanese film about cherry...
Mar 252 min read
Being Peace – Thích Nhất Hạnh (Or: How Not to Lose Your Mind in This Hellscape)
Let’s talk about paying attention. Not giving it, no. Paying it—because that’s what it is. A currency. And if you’re not careful, you’ll...
Mar 212 min read
God Bless America (2011) – A Parody of Rebellion dir. Bobcat Goldthwait
God Bless America plays like a parody of Natural Born Killers —except there’s no love, no sex, just two strangers united by sheer...
Mar 203 min read
Think Like a Stoic – Or at Least Pretend You Do
*(A review of Massimo Pigliucci’s Think Like a Stoic) Congratulations, You’re Going to Die! Now What? If that sentence made you panic,...
Mar 183 min read
Vanity Fair tv mini series (1998): Flirting, Scheming, and the Fine Art of Getting Exactly What You Want
You know that one coworker—the one who never stays late, never volunteers for extra work, and somehow still gets promoted before you? The...
Mar 173 min read
Dreaming Yourself Awake – Or How to Read 300 Pages and Still Not Lucid Dream
Amazon calls this book “the real deal.” I call it a Buddhist-flavored sleep aid with occasional moments of clarity. Alan Wallace’s...
Mar 162 min read
Stardust (2007): How to Stop Being a Dull, Predictable Loser and Find Some Magic
It's absolutely outrageous that most of us aren’t living in fairy tales. We’re not dashing across magical kingdoms, rescuing celestial...
Mar 153 min read
Mirror Mirror and No Wall
Mirror (Зеркало), 1974 dir. Tarkovsky “Do you understand what I’m saying?” —a voice whispers through the veil of time, breaking the...
Mar 143 min read
The Fever Dream About Grave Robbing, Lost Love, and Why You Should Really Learn to Let Go
La Chimera (2023) dir. Alice Rohrwacher Alice Rohrwacher ’s latest film is about an archaeologist who spends his days digging up Etruscan...
Feb 254 min read
The Fall, the Trial, and the Stories We Choose to Believe
ANATOMIE D’UNE CHUTE (2023) dir. Justine Triet A courtroom drama, a psychological thriller, a family tragedy—all at once, yet none of...
Feb 53 min read
“The New Child” by Osho: Why No One Wants to Hire Your Kid
Parenting is supposed to be about raising good, intelligent, well-adjusted human beings. This book actually helps to do that. Not by...
Jan 314 min read
Eat, Repent, Repeat: The 1914 Diet Book That Feared Fat More Than Financial Crime
Eat and Grow Thin: The Mandah Menus by Vance Thompson (1914) Writers don’t usually advertise their weight struggles, but many have waged...
Jan 294 min read
Jesus Had a Twin?
The Greatest Controversies of Early Christian History Written and read by Bart D. Ehrman Listening to Bart Ehrman deliver these...
Jan 244 min read
Mirror Lives and Hidden Truths: Reflecting on Tafrigh
It’s said that every one of us has at least five people in the world who look exactly like us. Once, I saw a woman on the highway driving...
Jan 152 min read
For a Hookah Date Where History Smokes Itself
Fairytale, 2022 Dir. Aleksandr Sokurov So, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, and Churchill walk into a purgatory. They’re stuck in limbo,...
Dec 14, 20242 min read
When Jesus Got the Promotion: A Theological Smackdown
When did Jesus become God by Bart Ehrman, Michael Bird, and Robert Stewart. A christological debate (Audible) A title that boldly...
Dec 13, 20243 min read
A Psychedelic Bathwater Fever Dream for Your Messiest Date
Saltburn, 2023 dir. Emerald Fennell This movie takes your hand, waltzes you through opulent halls dripping in marble and silk and then...
Dec 2, 20243 min read
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