Tag Archives: pop culture

Why Did Star Wars Stick?

Posted on May 4, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

It’s an interesting question. Cheesy lines, over-the-top acting, zippers up the back of the monster’s costume–how many films just like it have found their way into the Betamax bins of history? If we are to believe the writers of That ’70s … Continue reading →

Posted in Fictional Worlds, Reviews | Tagged A New Hope, Dune, film, George Lucas, J.R.R. Tolkien, Larry Niven, May the Fourth, myth, mythopoiea, pop culture, Ringworld, Science Fiction, Star Wars, That '70s Show, The Force Awakens | 15 Comments

The Crash of Heart and Flesh, or Culture’s Confusion of Intimacy in 50 Shades of Grey

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

Behind the hazy waves of light, distilled and fragmented with reds and blues and yellows and flashes of street and skin, one of the many storied voices of the 2004 film Crash says these words: “It’s the sense of touch. … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections, Thoughtful Essays | Tagged 50 Shades of Grey, BDSM, CBC, Crash (2004), Fifty Shades of Grey, Friends, intimacy, Jian Ghomeshi, pop culture, sex, social media, Theology of Culture, violence | 18 Comments

Somebody Who Gave a Damn

Posted on April 4, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson

It was an age when Kurt Cobain’s suicide made some sense. Not his own personal death, of course, distilled, slipping from faded light to darkness. It is easy to forget the icons as souls sometimes. It seemed, though, like a … Continue reading →