Leslie, My Name is Evil (Harkema, 2009)

Last updated on: November 10, 2014 at 10:32 pm By Kenneth R. Morefield

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. Read more

Agora (Amenábar, 2009)

Last updated on: February 26, 2015 at 11:31 am By Kenneth R. Morefield

Kenneth R. Morefield reviews Agora at 1More Film Blog. Read more

Bright Star (Campion, 2009)

Last updated on: November 10, 2014 at 10:29 pm By Kenneth R. Morefield

Jane Campion's Bright Star is a heartfelt, carefully drawn, masterpiece of a love story, It contains all the fire and penetration one would expect from a Campion film, but there is also a surprising--and welcome--tenderness as well. Read more

Vision (von Trotta, 2009)

Last updated on: November 10, 2014 at 10:25 pm By Kenneth R. Morefield

Films that depict communal religious life with nuance and sympathy are rare, and those that probe without cliché the relationships, communal and familial, between women are rarer still. So why didn’t I love Margarethe von Trotta’s Vision? My answer and other thoughts is up at the Christianity Today Movies Blog. Read more

An Education (Scherfig, 2009)

Last updated on: November 10, 2014 at 10:24 pm By Kenneth R. Morefield

Day one of the Toronto International Film Festival got off to a spectacular start with Lone Scherfig’s direction of a Nick Hornby script. I’ve posted some comments at The Christianity Today Movies Blog. Read more

To Be or Not To Be (Lubitsch, 1942)

Last updated on: November 10, 2014 at 10:21 pm By Kenneth R. Morefield

The larger point, though, is that Hollywood has participated from the beginning in shaping our attitudes in the service of a political or ideological point of view. The Reader was not the first portrayal of the German people as being beleaguered by Nazism, nor was Quentin Tarantino the first to mine the fascist mindset for Juvenalian satire. Read more

You’ve Come a (Long?) Way, Baby

Last updated on: November 10, 2014 at 10:16 pm By Kenneth R. Morefield

Oh, we like to congratulate ourselves in the West (and America in particular) that women have more rights than they did at some indeterminate time in the past or in some repressive culture with which we can compare. Read more

Screen Door Jesus (Davis, 2003)

Last updated on: November 10, 2014 at 10:09 pm By Kenneth R. Morefield

Part Short Cuts, part Lone Star, part Saved!, with a pinch of Flannery O'Connor thrown in for good measure, Screen Door Jesus will delight a few, infuriate a few, bore a few, and remain unseen by a multitude. Read more

Equiano in Africa (Young, 2008)

Last updated on: December 24, 2014 at 7:43 pm By Kenneth R. Morefield

It is an eleven minute short film with Equiano's text read over images of contemporary life in Benin Read more

Lake of Fire (Kaye, 2006)

Last updated on: July 26, 2014 at 3:30 pm By Kenneth R. Morefield

To call Lake of Fire uncompromisingly sober is to call a roundhouse kick to the kidney bracing. Read more