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Deus Ex Cinema: An Advent Devotional for Movie Lovers
Year
2025
Language
ENGLISH
Publication Information
Alise Chaffins
Summary
Advent is a fantastic time to slow down and examine how we want to approach Christmas and the coming year. As a film critic, I process a lot of the world through movies. Deus Ex Cinema is a book that will help you take a break each day for a couple of minutes to consider one of the four themes of Advent: Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love. I have used movies from as far back as 1939 to as recent as 2024. I hope that as you prepare to celebrate Christmas, you will find this a helpful companion in discovering a deeper meaning in the season. Alise is an entertainment writer and Tomatometer-approved film critic out of West Virginia. Always on the search for a good story, Alise connects film and television to her outlook on the world, trying to find ways to find meaning in the media that she consumes.Alise has been writing pretty much her whole life. She started blogging back when that was a thing, and has continued writing regularly through most of adulthood. She discovered film criticism over the pandemic when she realized just how much we as a society rely on entertainment to get us through difficult times.Alise is a member of the Independent Film Critics of America, the International Film Society Critics Association, the Online Film and Television Association, the Online Association of Female Film Critics, and GALECA. She writes regularly for The Dominion Post in Morgantown and at her Substack, MacGuffin or Meaning.