In the immediate aftermath of the passing of his wife, Helen, Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson) writes the African child he is sponsoring one of his long, confessional letters that serve as the reason-de-voice over for …
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End of year lists are about quality, not quantity, so I try to eschew comments about the strength or weakness of a given year based on how hard it may be to fill out the bottom half of the list. By most any measure, though, 2011 was a grand year for new films. Read the full story »
Being Elmo is good.
It doesn’t matter, as one of my colleagues is fond of saying, how you want to parse that.
I Confess (1953) is an Alfred Hitchcock film that has flown under the radar since its premiere; the box office figures were disappointing and there has been a lack of critical analysis for this work, …
My review of the latest Twilight film is now available at Christianity Today Movies & TV.
Over at The Thin Place, the podcast I host at Film Geek Radio, Todd Truffin and I have just wrapped a special episode on Giorgos Lanthimos’s Alps.
Part art therapy, part legal document (it contains footage of the mediation resulting from the director’s lawsuit against the Roman Catholic church), part political argument, Keith Rennar’s Of God and Gucci is the director’s attempt …
It is hard for me to say, precisely, when The Other F Word lost me for good.
