The Maid’s Room (Walker, 2013)
Despite the many second act flaws, the film is not without merit. The opening act is very strong, the four leads dig into their characters with relish, and Arturo Rogriguez composed an effective, atmospheric score.
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Boyhood (Linklater, 2014)
Like a Wes Anderson film, but without all the twee.
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Masters of Sex Episode 2.4 Recap: Dirty Jobs
It is perhaps too early to write off the sophomore year as a disappointment, but it is no longer too early to call its unevenness a trend.
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The Most Neglected Verse in Christian Culture Wars…
I don't think I'm holier than anyone who watches what I don't.
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Levitated Mass (Pray, 2013)
Levitated Mass is one of those delightful, obscure but unheralded documentaries that always seems to congregate around my the bottom of my list of annual favorites.
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Get on Up (Taylor, 2014)
Even if, like me, you care little for Brown's music, there is still a lot in the film about race, gender relations, friendship, loyalty, sacrifice, childhood, and determination to give you plenty to think about.
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Masters of Sex Episode 2.3 Recap: Fight
The don't-call-it-an-affair between Virginia Johnson and Bill Masters has been the one element of Masters of Sex that most blatantly deviates from Thomas Maier's biography of the same title.
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Clannad — The Motion Picture (Dezaki, 2007)
Clannad is an ambitious anime, touching on themes of friendship, family, grief, memory, and growing up.
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Revisiting Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales–Suzanne’s Career
For all of Rohmer's honesty about the emotional cowardice of (young) men, these films stop short of simply man-bashing.
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The Thin Place #48: Lucy–God or Godlike?
Lucy is a summer popcorn movie, to be sure. But when a movie has this much God symbolism, you can bet The Thin Place is going to ponder what it all is supposed to mean.