Update: Andrew is Moving to Secular Cinephile
Andrew Spitznas announces his new movie blog, Secular Cinephile.
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Where Was God? (Palmer, 2014)
We call natural disasters "Acts of God," but we struggle to square them with our providential worldview.
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Our Man in Tehran (Taylor and Weinstein, 2013)
The remarkable thing about Our Man in Tehran is its ability (much like Rory Kennedy's Last Days in Vietnam which also played at the festival) to take a complex situation and distill it without being reductive.
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Misery Loves Comedy (Pollak, 2015)
The relationship between suffering and comedy is hardly an unexamined one. Think for a moment: what do we mean by comic "relief"? Relief from what?
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Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller, 2015)
Fury Road has set a high bar for action films: fully realized world, fully fleshed out characters, fantastic performances, and breathtaking visuals, all going full steam ahead without wearing the audience out
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American Sniper DVD Giveaway (Concluded)
Warner Brothers is donating $1 for each sold American Sniper DVD, up to $1 million, to The Wounded Warrior Project.
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Dissenting Opinion — Avengers: Age of Ultron
The Marvel Universe: where life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and endless.
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Noble (Bradley, 2014)
The problem is that Noble is so respectful of Christina Noble that its respect veers into awe. That's not an emotion productive of great works of art.
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Mad Max: Fury Road Press Conference
Have you ever wanted to attend a press conference for a new Hollywood movie? Questions can range for the ridiculous--did you learn about cars--to the interesting--how were actresses treated by the mostly male, six hundred member crew. (And yeah, you heard that number right.)
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Batman Begins (Nolan, 2005) — Ten Years Later
So the question becomes: how does Batman Begins hold up in a post-Avengers world?