The Arts & Faith web site has announced that the theme for the 2026 Top 25 “Spiritually Significant” films list will be Women-Directed films. Deliberations are currently underway for over… Continue reading "An Education (Scherfig, 2009)"
GLBTQ Movies Have Become More Prevalent at Festivals -- Will Mainstream Audiences Ever Embrace Them?
A video review of Backcountry, which premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.
Assayas has provided his three actresses with a script that really allows them to showcase their acting chops -- Stewart in particular is a minor revelation.
Hannah is in an abusive relationship (and that's the understatement of the year), and the way Considine lets this play out without Hannah verbalizing the way her relationship with God affects and is affected by her attempts to negotiate her husband's treatment of her allows the film to be achingly real without ever preaching.
Ultimately Habemus Papam felt less like a blasphemy and more like a failure of imagination.
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have been so consistent and so dependable for the last fifteen years, turning out high quality films every two to three years, that a new film from them doesn't seem to generate the buzz or excitement of a fresh, new talent.
Asghar Farhadi's A Separation is a riveting domestic drama that works equally well as a character study and a social critique.
As a professional literature teacher, I always feel guilty about not getting behind the Cormac McCarthy bandwagon. Surely anything that promotes reading of a more literate kind, that gets people to take serious literature seriously, ought to be championed, embraced...revered.
Helter Skelter + Saved! + South Park with a dash of Rocky Horror Picture Show thrown in. Now write a review for a Christian audience. My try is at CT Movies.
