The Monuments Men (Clooney, 2013)
The Monuments Men is perhaps only a failure in comparison to its unrealized potential. The whole way home I kept thinking, "But it's such a great idea for a movie."
Author: kenmorefield
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TIFF 2013: Last of the Unjust and Mission Congo
Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah is sui generis, a universally respected nine and-a-half hour documentary that may well be as close as one can get to a definitive historical account of the Holocaust.
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Mars at Sunrise (Habie, 2014)
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?"
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Wings (Wellman, 1927)
William Wellman never won an Academy Award for directing.
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The Thin Place #44: Two Views of Wall Street
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.
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Spider-Man 2 (Raimi, 2004) — 10 Years Later
Pop quiz. Without using Google or some other search engine, identify the movie Roger Ebert called "the best superhero movie I've ever seen."
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God’s Not Dead (Cronk, 2014)
My problems with God's Not Dead are almost all ones of execution, not concept.
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Pandora’s Promise (Stone, 2013)
Freedom of the press means that, paradoxically, Americans are woefully misinformed about any number of issues.
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The Truth About Emanuel (Gregorini, 2013)
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.
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August: Osage County (Wells, 2013)
One is reluctant in a public review to say just how deeply one loathed August: Osage County.