Disney is one of the largest, most influential companies in the the entertainment industry. For decades, it has created imaginative uplifting stories for children, transporting them to another world, a fairy tale world. It’s awful, really. Not in… Read More
The Scariest Thing is ‘Us’
Horror movies are always about reckoning with something we have suppressed or believed gone for good–a demon, vampire, werewolf, etc. But when you think about it, the scariest thing that we ever have to reckon with is ourselves…. Read More
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Posted on October 27, 2020 by CaseyOFM
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Br. Tito, Casey Cole, Everyday Liminality, Franciscan, Horror, Jordan Peele, OFM, podcast, social commentary, Tito Serrano, Us movie
Shrek: The Anti-Fairy Tale
Disney is one of the largest, most influential companies in the the entertainment industry. For decades, it has created imaginative uplifting stories for children, transporting them to another world, a fairy tale world. It’s awful, really. Not in… Read More
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Posted on October 14, 2020 by CaseyOFM
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Br. Tito, Casey Cole OFM, Everyday Liminality, Franciscan, podcast, Shrek, Tito Serrano
The GENIUS of Black Jeopardy
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/everydayliminality/5-5._Black_Jeopardy.m4a Saturday Night Live has long been a silly variety show with an aim at satirizing pop culture. Whether it be politics or celebrity life, the show’s creators have been making us laugh at the absurd for more… Read More
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Posted on September 1, 2020 by CaseyOFM
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black jeopardy, Casey Cole, Catholic, podcast, race, racism, satire, SNL, Tito Serrano
It’s Christ! Almost…
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/everydayliminality/5.4-Christ-like.m4a Many literary and cinematic works use the themes of Christianity to make a compelling story. Coming back from the dead. Saving a people. Being the chosen one with greater power and authority to lead than anyone in… Read More
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Posted on August 27, 2020 by CaseyOFM
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Casey Cole, Catholic podcast, Everyday Liminality, Franciscan, OFM, Tito Serrano
Well That Didn’t Age Well…
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/everydayliminality/5.1_Censoring_the_Past.m4a Have you ever watched a movie from your childhood or revisited a television series that you once loved and found that you were now… a bit underwhelmed? What seemed so great in years past now seems out… Read More
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Posted on August 5, 2020 by CaseyOFM
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30 Rock, Birth of a Nation, blackface, Br. Tito, Casey Cole, Catholic Church, Everyday Liminality, Franciscan, friars, Gone With the Wind, racism, Song of the South, Tito Serrano