New Life (Waters, 2016)
New Life is one of those Christian movies that is so earnest and so sweet that one almost feels guilty about being indifferent towards it.
Author: kenmorefield
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Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (Zwick, 2016)
Tom Cruise is not my ideal choice to play Jack Reacher; let's just get that out of the way.
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Shut Up and Sing!
Monkeys on the barricades Are warning us to back away They form commissions trying to find The next one they can crucify –“Easy Silence,” The Dixie Chicks
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Call For Papers: Critical Essays on the Films of Hirokazu Koreeda
The editors of Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema (three volumes, Cambridge Scholars Publishing) are seeking proposals for the first volume of a new series focusing on prominent… Continue reading "Call For Papers: Critical Essays on the Films of Hirokazu Koreeda"
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Killing Reagan (Lurie, 2016)
Killing Reagan is not great art and it certainly isn't great politics. But in an election year that seemingly reveals America is more polarized than ever before, there is some cultural value in its ability to humanize a controversial figure.
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The Ruins of Lifta (Daum & Rudavsky, 2016)
Lifta is described in this documentary's press materials as "the only Palestinian village abandoned during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that has not been destoryed or repopulated by Jews."
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The Unknown Girl (Dardenne & Dardenne, 2016)
Why do we hate her inscrutability so much? Why do we want another, more cynical explanation except, perhaps, to feel better about ourselves? Why is it so much easier to be inspired by and cheer the one big gesture than the daily minute ones?
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3 Days of Terror: The Charlie Hebdo Attacks (Reed, 2016)
In fifty-nine exhausting minutes, the film deftly interweaves archival footage of Paris in January of 2015. In a seventy-two hour span, attacks from ISIS and Al-Qaeda targeted the offices of Charlie Hebdo and a related standoff at a kosher supermarket in the same city.
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TIFF 2016 Preview: Queen of Katwe
The following teaser trailer pushed me off the fence. This definitely looks like a major studio production with Christian themes as opposed to a Christian-niche movie. Check out the featurette and see if you don't agree.
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Robb Skyler is Howard Cosell in Hands of Stone
Cosell helped shape the events that became part of sports history, and the makers of the new Roberto Duran biopic Hands of Stone needed an actor who could not only mimic the broadcasters patter but who also understood the man behind the showman. They turned to veteran comedian and character actor Robb Skyler.