Mr. Luse on Signs

This evening’s second item found when looking for something else: William Luse’s reflection on the movie Signs. Fans of the movie may find the review difficult.

I share his preference for “devils descending” science fiction (e.g., Aliens) over “angels descending” (e.g., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which I hated when I saw it and still do). Anyone sensitive to the world’s inexhaustible desire to find false saviors should, I think, hoot and jeer at the movies that offer them. They are the Precious Moments dolls of cinema.

Mr. Luse, who wrote The End of Sex as We Know It for the January/February 2004 issue (not available on the web), has an essay appearing in the March issue on Terri Schiavo and Christopher Reeve.