2015-03-02T18:39:39-05:00

Peter Nicks's The Waiting Room is the sort of documentary that advocates on either side of the American health care debate could end up pointing at to bolster their ideological claims. Read more

2015-03-02T18:43:53-05:00

"The Tea Party does not represent this district, I do." Read more

2014-07-26T11:18:22-05:00

I think the thing that may disarm some viewers who are predisposed to dislike or be offended by Turn Me on Dammit! is that it isn't really, truly, in the final analysis, about the sex. Read more

2014-11-12T14:39:26-05:00

Six years after An Inconvenient Truth, it is depressing, maddening, and probably a little counterproductive that the immanent global catastrophe film has become a genre unto itself Read more

2014-07-26T14:41:42-05:00

But Mirror Mirror has Julia Roberts in it, so it must be a Julia Roberts movie. I like Julia Roberts. I found her charming in Notting Hill and I respect her work in other places. I think, however, her persona is wrong for the material. Her evil queen has neither the icy malevolence to be truly scary, nor the whiff of desperation to be at all sympathetic. Read more

2014-07-26T14:29:44-05:00

My review of Jennifer Siebel Newsom's Miss Representation, and some meditations about how women are portrayed in American media are now available at Her.meneneutics, Christianity Today's blog for women. Read more

2015-03-02T18:09:35-05:00

Bill Nichols’s Engaging Cinema: An Introduction to Film Studies is a textbook that not only recognizes that the Internet exists but also understands how the presence of the Internet can make textbooks cheaper. Read more

2015-03-02T18:11:46-05:00

Art is…The Permanent Revolutionhas a simple basic structure. It segues between philosophical ruminations about the relationship between printmaking and politics, observations of the creation of several new pieces, and montages of completed works of political art from a wide array of artists. Read more

2015-03-02T18:13:37-05:00

Dori Berinstein’s valentine to the iconic Broadway star is, like its subject matter, always affable Read more

2015-03-02T18:15:49-05:00

The film tells the story of Bill Courtney, a high school football coach and his players at Manassas High School in Memphis Tennessee. Read more

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