Films that depict communal religious life with nuance and sympathy are rare, and those that probe without cliché the relationships, communal and familial, between women are rarer still. So why didn’t I love Margarethe von …

Day one of the Toronto International Film Festival got off to a spectacular start with Lone Scherfig’s direction of a Nick Hornby script.  I’ve posted some comments at The Christianity Today Movies Blog.

When I watch films, I don’t normally arrange my schedule around themes. I sometimes do auteur studies, but this division inevitably gets complicated when I hear of interesting things that jump the queue or want …