Macky Alston Interview
“God’s Mandate is to Love One Another”
Category: Disclosure
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Yogawoman (Clere & McIntyre, 2011)
The easiest defense of Yogawoman, if defense is needed, is that its leisurely pace and unstructured direction is emblematic of its subject matter. If you are restless or bored, perhaps you are out of alignment and should try yoga...
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Scenes From a Parish (Rutenbeck, 2009)
James Rutenbeck's Scenes from a Parish is the sort of documentary essay film that makes one pretty darn grateful for the 00.01% of the the federal budget that is granted to PBS.
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Simon & The Oaks (Ohlin, 2012)
There have now been enough films about--or set in and around-- the Holocaust that it is almost possible to group these films into subgenres.
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Wonder Women!: The Untold Story of American Superheroines (Guevara-Flanagan, 2012)
Wonder Women!: The Untold Story of American Superheroines is a serviceable if somewhat superficial summary of the American feminist movement as reflected through the representation of female heroes in comic books, television, and film.
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Leviathan (Castaing-Taylor and Paravel, 2012)
Leviathan is not a narrative film.
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La Source (Shen, 2012)
Everyone thinks they would be more generous if they had just a little more.
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The Law in These Parts (Alexandrowicz 2011)
What is the difference been "occupied" and "held" territories?
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The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012)
As I've acknowledged elsewhere, the Batman of this series of films is not the same character/hero I grew up with, and that complicates my reactions, making it harder (though, I hope, not impossible) to separate my disappointment from my judgment. That's not all of it, though, or I should have liked Rises more than The Dark Knight, and I'm not sure I did (even if I did judge it a better film).
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Brave (Chapman, Andrews, and Purcell 2012)
Payoff there is, but I found my own emotions at the conclusion somewhat muted by the fact that--and there's just no easy way to put this--I preferred the pre-chastened heroine to the one who had learned her lesson at the end.