Served Like a Girl (Heslov, 2017)
You can be a soldier and still be feminine. You can be a soldier and still be a mom. You can be a soldier and still be homeless just months after leaving the armed forces.
Category: Christianity Today
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Roberto Rossellini and the ‘Moral Point of View’
"For me," he said, "it is above all a moral standpoint from which to view the world. Afterwards it becomes an aesthetic standpoint, but the point of departure is definitely moral."
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Terminator Genisys (Taylor, 2015)
Terminator Genisys made me angry. There's plenty of films that leave me unimpressed or bored or just disatisfied. But a film has to be particularly lazy to get me mad.
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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her (Benson, 2013)
Eleanor Rigby's conceit—I'm tempted to say "gimmick"—is that it shows their two stories back to back rather than interweaving or cutting between them. Thus it becomes both a Rashomon story and a meditation on how we make and preserve memories. The films are designed to be played in either order, with one screening at TIFF flip-flopping to give us Her and Him.
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Snowpiercer vs. The Giver
I wouldn't begrudge anyone who thinks the films Snowpiercer and The Giver have as much in common as an elephant and a plum, but I have been thinking about the two in conjunction recently.
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Heaven is for Real
1More Film Blog is giving away a free DVD of Heaven is For Real to one lucky reader.
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Before Midnight (Linklater, 2013)
The fatalism imbuing the characters and the film is certainly representative of what many couples feel in middle-age, a period in which there are as many or more choices behind them as awaiting them and where the quality of a relationship is influenced as much by the fruit of past decisions as the pleasurable contemplation of future ones.
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit — Now Available on DVD
The new Jack Ryan doesn't so much have greatness thrust upon him as shoved down his—and our—throat.
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Veronica Mars Giveaway — Win a Free DVD
Hey readers, were you as excited about the Veronica Mars movie as I was? Have you seen the film yet? Check out my review at Christianity Today for my take… Continue reading "Veronica Mars Giveaway — Win a Free DVD"
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Macky Alston Interview
“God’s Mandate is to Love One Another”