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May 21, 2016

School of Rock on Broadway

There's a pervasive sameness to movies these days. Sure there are pockets of exception: festivals and awards season. Summer is starting earlier and earlier. May is not even over and we've already had three comic book movies, with a fourth opening next week. In such a climate, live theater offers an increasingly attractive alternative. And given that more and more movie theaters are raising prices and studios are needlessly rendering two-star action movies into 3D in order to charge a premium, the cost differential isn't always that great.

Christianity Today, Elsewhere, Essays

May 21, 2016

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."

Disclosure--DVDS, Reviews

May 10, 2016

The Man Who Knew Infinity (Brown, 2015)

A formula film about mathematical geniuses is buoyed by strong performances from Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons.

10 Years Later, Reviews

May 4, 2016

Stranger Than Fiction (Forster, 2006) — 10 Years Later

Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze get mentioned a lot in reviews of Stranger Than Fiction, particularly considering they had nothing to do with it.

Disclosure--DVDS, Reviews

May 2, 2016

Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party (Cone, 2015)

The world of Henry Gamble's Birthday Party is not one I've ever lived in, but it is one I've caught enough glimpses of the believe exists in some only slightly less grotesque form.

Disclosure--AS, Reviews

April 28, 2016

Keanu (Atencio, 2016)

I laughed out loud a couple of times during Keanu, the feature film starring comedians Key and Peele as a pair of normal guys trying to pass themselves off as gangstas. And good comedies that aren't totally filthy are hard to come by. So that's a mild endorsement, I guess. But...

Film Festivals, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2016, Reviews

April 17, 2016

Full Frame Day 3: God Knows Where I Am

Linda Bishop's story is poignant and powerful. God Knows Where I Am recognizes that fact yet struggles to figure out which elements of the story are engendering its emotion.