Daniel Saunders is a recent transplant from the Midwest to Pasadena, California. View his creative portfolio at danieltsaunders.wordpress.com and follow him on Twitter @dothedan.
If Romantic creativity finds its spark in antagonism to neat, ordered, too-rational, even bourgeois environments, then it has found one of its most fruitful expressions in that often cliché-ridden genre of music beloved of adolescent boys, tattooed muscle heads, faux-Satanists, aficionados of technique, and normal people alike: heavy metal.
The new Netflix-produced Chef’s Table does not involve competitions, recipe demonstrations, or reality-TV drama. Instead, it elegantly captures the mood at the nexus of memory, creativity, and food, uncovering the underlying attitude toward the act of creation itself.
Daniel Saunders reviews Mad Max: Fury Road.
It Follows: A Parable of Original Sin
Good horror—as opposed to purely titillating, shock-value horror—is concerned with the metaphysical reality of good and evil, of right and wrong moral trajectories.
Leviathan: When Power Forfeits Law
In Leviathan, earthly powers trample the weak. But there is just enough in Leviathan to hint at a crack in the system, a brief glimmer of light that is enough to keep the downtrodden fighting for truth, justice, and love.
Previous page Next page