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.

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.

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 …

A lot of films can break your heart–a precious few can enlarge and renovate it.
Vincent Paronnaud’s and Marjane Satrapi’s animated film of the latter’s graphic novel is one of those precious few. It invites comparison …

Former NFL football coach Bill Parcells is generally credited with popularizing the cliché “you are what your record says you are.” In part no doubt a response to the equally clichéd insistence of fans or …