TIFF 2015 — A Flickering Truth (Pietra Brettkelly)
A documentary about film preservation in Afghanistan challenges us with the question of what's worth living for and what's worth risking our lives for.
A documentary about film preservation in Afghanistan challenges us with the question of what's worth living for and what's worth risking our lives for.
It should not have been that hard, I think, to make a fully satisfying film version of Andy Weir's The Martian.
Our Last Tango would be worth watching, if only for the dance sequences.
Demolition is not likely to be anyone's favorite film from TIFF 2015. Or, at least, I am confident it won't be mine.
The Man Who Saved the World begins with an epigraph from Mark 8:36: “For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul.”
Adrenaline (★★½) was pretty much the sort of movie I was thinking of last year when I wrote the mini-essay, “Are Christian Films Judged By a Double Standard?” If you… Continue reading "Adrenaline (Simpkins, 2015)"
The series does tend to lean a little heavily on the contrast between individual faith (good) and institutional structures (bad, bad, bad).
When it comes to screenplay writing, Christian movies still lag in quality.
Anne Fontaine’s Gemma Bovery is one of those films I see at The Toronto Film Festival, enjoy, and then somehow never hear from again until it pops up, unannounced… Continue reading "Gemma Bovery (Fontaine, 2014)"
Seldom will one bad scene ruin a good movie, but there are tipping points.