<em>Minority Report</em> (Spielberg, 2002) — 10 Years Later
May 17, 2012 – 7:56 pm | No Comment

I listed Minority Report as my #1 film of 2002, and ten years later the thing I find most surprising about that fact is how brave I felt and counter-cultural I thought I was being. 

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Mirror Mirror (Singh, 2012)
March 30, 2012 – 12:59 am | No Comment
<em>Mirror Mirror</em> (Singh, 2012)

Mirror Mirror was better than I anticipated based on some groan inducing trailers and commercials. It was mildly diverting although deeply flawed.

Miss Representation (Newsom, 2011)
March 25, 2012 – 5:53 pm | No Comment
<em>Miss Representation</em> (Newsom, 2011)

My review of Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s Miss Representation, and some meditations about how women are portrayed in American media are now available at Her.meneneutics, Christianity Today’s blog for women.
To read the article at Her.meneutics (as …

Engaging Cinema: An Introduction to Film Studies (Nichols, 2010)
March 24, 2012 – 5:00 pm | One Comment
<em>Engaging Cinema: An Introduction to Film Studies</em> (Nichols, 2010)

Bill Nichols’s Engaging Cinema: An Introduction to Film Studies is a textbook that not only recognizes that the Internet exists but also understands how the presence of the Internet can make textbooks cheaper.

Art is…The Permanent Revolution (Kirchheimer, 2012)
March 24, 2012 – 4:14 pm | No Comment
<em>Art is…The Permanent Revolution</em> (Kirchheimer, 2012)

Art is…The Permanent Revolutionhas a simple basic structure. It segues between philosophical ruminations about the relationship between printmaking and politics, observations of the creation of several new pieces, and montages of completed works of political …

Carol Channing: Larger Than Life (Berinstein, 2012)
March 10, 2012 – 8:02 pm | No Comment
<em>Carol Channing: Larger Than Life</em> (Berinstein, 2012)

Carol Channing is larger than life, but then we knew that from title, didn’t we?

Undefeated (Lindsay and Martin, 2011)
March 2, 2012 – 8:27 pm | No Comment
<em>Undefeated</em> (Lindsay and Martin, 2011)

Ken reviews the Academy Award winner for best documentary at Christian Spotlight on Entertainment. The film tells the story of Bill Courtney, a high school football coach and his players at Manassas High School in …