Persecuted (Lusko 2014)
While the opening ten minutes of the film certainly bring to light the great questions facing Americans as to religious orientation, the following eighty are little more than the typical action thriller.
Author: Claudia Mundy
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Frank vs. God (Schill, 2014)
Frank vs. God is one of my favorite films thus far into the movie year, and it is without a doubt one of the better "religious" films of those recently released.
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Six Million and One (Fisher, 2011)
The documentary follows the group of four--Estee, David, Gideon, and Ronel-- as they travel from the U.S. to the various concentration/internment camps in which their father was held. The group is seeking to reconstruct their father's journey from camp to camp from what he wrote in his memoir.
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Approaching Midnight (Khaleghi, 2013)
This movie isn't that bad. The acting is, but the plot isn't.
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Lawrence, 2013)
I prefer the movie to the book.
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The Armstrong Lie (Gibney, 2013)
A person--doesn’t have to be a friend of yours necessarily, just someone you know or have heard of--is diagnosed with cancer. This person decides not to undergo any type of chemotherapy treatment or ingest any available medicines—because he equates treatment to “cheating.” Would you not think this an asinine response?
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All She Can (Wendel, 2011)
College—it’s Luz Garcia’s dream—it’s her only way of escaping the big trouble of her small town.
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Informant (Meltzer, 2012)
If you’re looking for answers as to who Brandon Darby really is, or what the motivations behind his turning in two young men suspected of planning to bomb the Republican National Convention really were, then this movie will not be a profitable use of time.
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Jewtopia (Fogel, 2012)
With a name like Jewtopia, I thought the movie would be mainly about a Jewish family. But it isn’t.
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The Muslims are Coming! (Farsad & Obeidallah)
When asked if their project assumes that Americans (or Christians) are more intolerant or Islamophbic than anyone else, Obeidallah demurred saying they were not so naive as to believe that “any one religion or group could hold a monopoly on prejudice.”