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April 2014

April 04, 2014
What do Pamela Smart and Viktor Bout have in common?
April 04, 2014
A large part of what makes the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival so well curated...
April 02, 2014
"I would not come to a movie that I thought was a sermon."

March 2014

March 31, 2014
Here is something that doesn't happen nearly as often in documentaries as it does in...
March 28, 2014
The most commented upon feature of Daniel Patrick Carbone's directorial debut, Hide Your Smiling Faces,...
March 28, 2014
Minority opinions are important things, particularly in Christian circles where they are rarely trumpeted or...
March 28, 2014
Bad Words is the third film I have seen in as many weeks featuring an...
March 22, 2014
The place of The Jesus Film in such a catalog is idiosyncratic. Made as an...
March 21, 2014
When I first heard of Femen, a group of "feminists" who protest...something (everything?) by baring...
March 19, 2014
Hey readers, were you as excited about the Veronica Mars movie as I was? Have...
March 03, 2014
Of all the films I reviewed in 2004, The Incredibles is surely the one I’ve...

February 2014

February 26, 2014
A bit too much happens in Cement Suitcase for me to toss it on the...
February 19, 2014
Fewer subjects at the intersection of faith and culture are more inflammatory than that of...
February 14, 2014
It's possible, I suppose, to like movies and not like Slavoj Žižek, who I usually...
February 14, 2014
Endless Love is a bad movie, and, yeah, I pretty much liked it.
February 13, 2014
The 904: Shadow of the Sunshine State is a documentary about Jacksonville, which has the...
February 06, 2014
The Monuments Men is perhaps only a failure in comparison to its unrealized potential. The...
February 04, 2014
Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah is sui generis, a universally respected nine and-a-half hour documentary that may...
February 02, 2014
Films about Israeli-Palestinian conflicts, while not exactly a dime a dozen in the United States,...
February 02, 2014
William Wellman never won an Academy Award for directing.
February 01, 2014
In the most recent edition of The Thin Place Podcast, Todd Truffin joins me to...

January 2014

January 27, 2014
The documentary follows the group of four--Estee, David, Gideon, and Ronel-- as they travel from...
January 26, 2014
Pop quiz. Without using Google or some other search engine, identify the movie Roger Ebert...
January 21, 2014
My problems with God's Not Dead are almost all ones of execution, not concept.
January 19, 2014
Freedom of the press means that, paradoxically, Americans are woefully misinformed about any number of...
January 17, 2014
The Truth About Emanuel is one of those films that reveals its twist about a...
January 15, 2014
One is reluctant in a public review to say just how deeply one loathed August:...
January 12, 2014
For most readers who are not evangelical Christians (and for many of us who are),...
January 02, 2014
It feels bitterly fitting that I revisited Rosetta the same week that my home town...
January 01, 2014
Given its subject matter, Lovelace could be forgiven for being shocking or harrowing itself...if it...
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