The Thin Place #44: Two Views of Wall Street

Last updated on: May 22, 2015 at 1:01 pm By Kenneth R. Morefield

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. Read more

Six Million and One (Fisher, 2011)

Last updated on: May 19, 2015 at 9:05 pm By Claudia Mundy

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. Read more

Spider-Man 2 (Raimi, 2004) — 10 Years Later

Last updated on: May 19, 2015 at 9:07 pm By Kenneth R. Morefield

Pop quiz. Without using Google or some other search engine, identify the movie Roger Ebert called "the best superhero movie I've ever seen." Read more

God’s Not Dead (Cronk, 2014)

Last updated on: January 30, 2016 at 8:53 am By Kenneth R. Morefield

My problems with God's Not Dead are almost all ones of execution, not concept. Read more

Pandora’s Promise (Stone, 2013)

Last updated on: May 19, 2015 at 9:09 pm By Kenneth R. Morefield

Freedom of the press means that, paradoxically, Americans are woefully misinformed about any number of issues. Read more

The Truth About Emanuel (Gregorini, 2013)

Last updated on: May 19, 2015 at 9:12 pm By Kenneth R. Morefield

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. Read more

August: Osage County (Wells, 2013)

Last updated on: May 19, 2015 at 9:15 pm By Kenneth R. Morefield

One is reluctant in a public review to say just how deeply one loathed August: Osage County. Read more

Left Behind as Evangelical Pornography

Last updated on: July 26, 2014 at 3:31 pm By Kenneth R. Morefield

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. Read more

Rosetta and The Wolf of Wall Street

Last updated on: May 19, 2015 at 9:17 pm By Kenneth R. Morefield

It feels bitterly fitting that I revisited Rosetta the same week that my home town newspaper reported that my home state has one of the fastest growing poverty rates in the country. Read more

Lovelace (Bellin, 2013)

Last updated on: February 27, 2015 at 9:50 am By Kenneth R. Morefield

Given its subject matter, Lovelace could be forgiven for being shocking or harrowing itself...if it were. It could be forgiven for being a lot of things--contentious, outrageous, depressing, infuriating. But given its source material, here's the one thing I couldn't forgive it for being: gutless. Read more