Hide Your Smiling Faces (Carbone 2013)
The most commented upon feature of Daniel Patrick Carbone's directorial debut, Hide Your Smiling Faces, is its hushed volume.
Minority opinions are important things, particularly in Christian circles where they are rarely trumpeted or met with as much charity or respect as they ought to be. So it is worth disagreeing publicly if not to persuade, at least to model that it can be done without vitriol or condemnation.
Bad Words is the third film I have seen in as many weeks featuring an emotionally arrested adult male mentoring an adolescent boy.
The place of The Jesus Film in such a catalog is idiosyncratic. Made as an evangelism tool rather than a commercial film, its reach has exceeded that of many Hollywood blockbusters.
When I first heard of Femen, a group of "feminists" who protest...something (everything?) by baring their breasts in public and selling images of topless members, I assumed it was a front group for selling porn.
Of all the films I reviewed in 2004, The Incredibles is surely the one I’ve rewatched the most—and the one I would most readily rewatch again. If it takes ten years or even longer for an Incredibles sequel, I’ll be here.
Fewer subjects at the intersection of faith and culture are more inflammatory than that of changing sexual orientation.
Endless Love is a bad movie, and, yeah, I pretty much liked it.
The 904: Shadow of the Sunshine State is a documentary about Jacksonville, which has the highest rate of violent crime of any city in Florida.