The Silver Surfer Cartoon Brought Cosmic Weirdness to ’90s Saturday Mornings Trippy visuals, ambitious stories, and melodramatic dialog captured the spirit of one of Marvel’s greatest and noblest heroes. Feb 12, 2020 Best of Opus TV Nerdery
Staring Into the Sleepy Eyes of Death, An Unsung Samurai Cinema Classic Ichikawa Raizō stars as a cynical samurai in this film series that straddles the line between arthouse and exploitation filmmaking. Jan 11, 2020 Best of Opus Movies
A Deep Dive Into Hideaki Anno’s Mind-blowing, Groundbreaking Neon Genesis Evangelion Since its 1995 debut, Evangelion has become one of the most popular, influential, and controversial anime titles of all time. Jun 17, 2019 Best of Opus Anime
The Safe Mediocrity of Christian Art Christians have often been guilty of promoting and encouraging art that denies the complexities of human existence. Feb 26, 2019 Best of Opus Religion Literature
Netflix’s Godzilla Anime Trilogy is an Interesting, Disappointing Extension of the Kaijū Mythos (Review) Though not lacking in ambition or scope, the trilogy ultimately leaves you wondering what might’ve been. Jan 14, 2019 Anime
There Can Be so Much More to Christian Music Given its frequent tendency to simply copy secular music, it’s easy to become jaded aboutChristian music. Jan 2, 2019 Music Religion
Old-School Christian Goth & Industrial: The Children of Power, Christian Image, and New Society (Review) These albums are a fascinating glimpse into a realm of Christian music that most people probably never even knew existed. Aug 25, 2018 Best of Opus Music
The Boundless Optimism of Japan’s “City Pop” The music of artists like Toshiki Kadomatsu sounds utterly disposable but I can’t get enough of it these days. Jul 4, 2018 Best of Opus Music
Random Thoughts About Avengers: Infinity War and the Future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Review) The Marvel Cinematic Universe reaches an apocalyptic milestone ten years in the making. May 1, 2018 Best of Opus Movies
The Last Jedi Challenges the Star Wars Status Quo to Go Beyond Mere Nostalgia (Review) By striking it down, Rian Johnson helped ensure that Star Wars could become more powerful than we can possibly imagine. Dec 30, 2017 Best of Opus Movies
What keeps us from falling down? Once again, the moral failure at the heart of American Christianity is exposed for all to see. Nov 13, 2017 Best of Opus Politics
Why does Stranger Things affect me so strongly? I understand why others find the series derivative, clichéd, too reliant on tropes, etc. But it doesn’t feel derivative to me at all. Nov 3, 2017 TV
Stranger Things 2 Is a (Mostly) Satisfying Return to Hawkins, Indiana Also, let’s talk about what’ll happen in season 3 and why the series is so affecting to begin with. Oct 31, 2017 Best of Opus TV
From Industrial Noise to Serene Ambience: Exploring vidnaObmana’s Early Years Dirk Serries’ acclaimed ambient project underwent some pretty dramatic shifts as evidenced by these early recordings. Sep 19, 2017 Best of Opus Music
Ingmar Bergman vs. The Spirit of Our Age What happens when we make ourselves the highest goal of our own existence? Aug 27, 2017 Best of Opus Miscellany
It’s Time to Adopt a Block-Oriented View of Website Content Management Think of a webpage as a collection of discrete, self-contained blocks of content — and edit it accordingly. Aug 12, 2017 Best of Opus Web Development
What might happen in season two of Stranger Things? Also, some more thoughts about why, exactly, the show is so powerful and endearing for me. Jul 27, 2016 Best of Opus TV Nerdery
Finding a Path Through the Wilderness: An Interview with Makeup & Vanity Set Makeup & Vanity Set’s Matthew Pusti discusses his new album’s origins, its accompanying short film, the legacy of the ’80s, and much more. Mar 31, 2015 Best of Opus Interviews
I’m Not So Sure I Want to Live an Epic Life I might want to live an epic life of greatness, but I’m not sure I can. Furthermore, I’m not even sure that I’m supposed to want to live such a life. Nov 27, 2014 Best of Opus Religion
Deeper Truth & Elusive Beauty: An Interview with The Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus Jun 30, 2014 Best of Opus Music Interviews