Films about Israeli-Palestinian conflicts, while not exactly a dime a dozen in the United States, are enough of a staple of world cinema that upon hearing of a new one the first question is usually not "is it good?" but "does it distinguish itself?"
William Wellman never won an Academy Award for directing.
In the most recent edition of The Thin Place Podcast, Todd Truffin joins me to discuss Oliver Stone's Wall Street and compare it to Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street.
Pop quiz. Without using Google or some other search engine, identify the movie Roger Ebert called "the best superhero movie I've ever seen."
My problems with God's Not Dead are almost all ones of execution, not concept.
Freedom of the press means that, paradoxically, Americans are woefully misinformed about any number of issues.
The Truth About Emanuel is one of those films that reveals its twist about a third of the way through. In most such films, this act is a signal that the film isn't really about the twist.
One is reluctant in a public review to say just how deeply one loathed August: Osage County.
For most readers who are not evangelical Christians (and for many of us who are), the representation of reality in the Left Behind series can come across as oddly distorted.
