Meditation Through Sound: Ambient Music’s Powerful Style Written by Benjamin Parker  Art by Lute Campbell  When my family first brought home a box set of CDs titled The Listening Program for me to try, I hadn’t fully developed my own taste in music yet. …

Another article of mine was recently published! Unlike my film reviews, this isn't the sort of thing I'd usually write about, but I'm still proud of how it came out. chivomengro.com/2025/02/03/m...

The Brutalist is an Intimate Immigrant Tale Few modern-day epics feel so uncannily plucked from another era as Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist. It’s as though Francis Ford Coppola had turned in another towering American saga like The Godfather, ra...

My "The Brutalist" article is out! champlaincrossover.org/2659/culture...

The Seed of the Sacred Fig is A Cultural Cautionary Tale On a black screen, two lines of text fade into view: “This film was made in secret. When there is no way, a way must be made.” This epigraph marks the beginning of The Seed of the Sacred Fig, a courag...

My "Seed of the Sacred Fig" article is out! champlaincrossover.org/2644/opinion...

Megalopolis: Francis Ford Coppola’s Fascinating Failure For better or for worse, Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-long personal project Megalopolis seems to be one of the year’s most talked-about films, yet nobody is actually bothering to watch it. Walking i...

My "Megalopolis" article is finally out! champlaincrossover.org/2639/culture...

The Substance: Self-Loathing is a Sickness Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance asks us a deceptively simple question: What if a single drug could make you perfect? In today’s internet age, it’s already more difficult to control what random strange...

While I'm getting back into this site again, here's my first published film essay for The Crossover (my college's student-run publication): champlaincrossover.org/2605/opinion...

For my first Bluesky post in God knows how long, here's the thing my other mutuals totally aren't doing as well.