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The Road (Hillcoat, 2009)
September 21, 2009 – 12:25 pm | 2 Comments
<em>The Road</em> (Hillcoat, 2009)

Damn it, I feel like a traitor to my vocation.
As a professional literature teacher, I always feel guilty about not getting behind the Cormac McCarthy bandwagon. Surely anything that promotes reading of a more literate …

Leslie, My Name is Evil (Harkema, 2009)
September 16, 2009 – 12:04 pm | No Comment
<em>Leslie, My Name is Evil</em> (Harkema, 2009)

Helter Skelter + Saved! + South Park with a dash of Rocky Horror Picture Show thrown in. Now write a review for a Christian audience. My try is at CT Movies.

Bright Star (Campion, 2009)
September 13, 2009 – 3:27 pm | No Comment
<em>Bright Star</em> (Campion, 2009)

Bright Star is passionate, penetrating, and surprisingly tender. It is easily my favorite Jane Campion film. More thoughts available at the Christianity Today Movies Blog.

Vision (von Trotta, 2009)
September 11, 2009 – 7:34 pm | No Comment
<em>Vision</em> (von Trotta, 2009)

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 …

An Education (Scherfig, 2009)
September 10, 2009 – 7:13 pm | No Comment
<em>An Education</em> (Scherfig, 2009)

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.

Lake of Fire (Kaye, 2006)
August 29, 2009 – 6:30 pm | No Comment
<em>Lake of Fire</em> (Kaye, 2006)

If you are a director who has taken out an ad in Variety slamming a film bearing your name as director (American History X) and sued the Director’s Guild of America after it denied you …