Wings (Wellman, 1927)
William Wellman never won an Academy Award for directing.
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The Thin Place #44: Two Views of Wall Street
In the most recent edition of The Thin Place Podcast, Todd Truffin joins me to discuss Oliver Stone's Wall Street and compare it to Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street.
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Six Million and One (Fisher, 2011)
The documentary follows the group of four--Estee, David, Gideon, and Ronel-- as they travel from the U.S. to the various concentration/internment camps in which their father was held. The group is seeking to reconstruct their father's journey from camp to camp from what he wrote in his memoir.
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Spider-Man 2 (Raimi, 2004) — 10 Years Later
Pop quiz. Without using Google or some other search engine, identify the movie Roger Ebert called "the best superhero movie I've ever seen."
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God’s Not Dead (Cronk, 2014)
My problems with God's Not Dead are almost all ones of execution, not concept.
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Pandora’s Promise (Stone, 2013)
Freedom of the press means that, paradoxically, Americans are woefully misinformed about any number of issues.
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The Truth About Emanuel (Gregorini, 2013)
The Truth About Emanuel is one of those films that reveals its twist about a third of the way through. In most such films, this act is a signal that the film isn't really about the twist.
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August: Osage County (Wells, 2013)
One is reluctant in a public review to say just how deeply one loathed August: Osage County.
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Left Behind as Evangelical Pornography
For most readers who are not evangelical Christians (and for many of us who are), the representation of reality in the Left Behind series can come across as oddly distorted.