Leaving The Discovery Undiscovered

Rooney Mara resting her head on Jason Segel's shoulder at the beach, everyone looking sad.

Hollywood has an unnatural fondness for secular religiosity, desperately wanting the comfort of an afterlife without any of the specificity of an actual religious teaching. This is how we get inoffensively spiritual but otherwise kind of fine films like Ghost and What Dreams May Come. I can now confidently add The Discovery to my carefully curated collection of annoyingly agnostic fables. …read more

Alice Duke

Brenda Lyons

A young woman with long blond hair is flanked by birds of prey. A gryphon-eqsue mythological mix plays the pipes. A winged woman with long dark hair clasps a necklace.

Vitaly S. Alexius

A blond woman with large translucent wings gazes across an alien landscape. A futuristic warrior stands at the ready in an oddly lit cityscape. A dark angel with wings outstretched gazes upward.

Peter Mohrbacher

A young man with white hair and a large sword is bathed in golden light. A tall figure with a surrealistic head gestures grandly. A skeletal figure wrapped in green stares with cold, pale eyes.

In Defense of Nonsense… and John From Cincinnati

Austin Nichols as John Monad. Bruce Greenwood as Mitch Yost. Rebecca De Mornay as Cissy Yost. Greyson Fletcher as Shaun Yost.

Heather V. Kreiter

A beautiful backpacker is about to be bitten by a handsome vampire. A red-haired fairy wearing a green robe sits next to a pumpkin. A beautiful woman with pale eyes and long white hair holds her hands to her face.