Actor for Hire (Mizelle, 2015)
Jesse is a young, average-looking, bald guy trying to make it in Hollywood.
Jesse is a young, average-looking, bald guy trying to make it in Hollywood.
These days when I watch a new Christian movie, my first question is usually: who is the intended audience?
Our Last Tango would be worth watching, if only for the dance sequences.
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)"
What traditions have we left by the wayside in favor of progress, and, perhaps more importantly, who have we left behind?
Seldom will one bad scene ruin a good movie, but there are tipping points.