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January 2014

January 12, 2014

Left Behind as Evangelical Pornography

For most readers who are not evangelical Christians (and for many of us who are),...

January 02, 2014

Rosetta and The Wolf of Wall Street

It feels bitterly fitting that I revisited Rosetta the same week that my home town...

April 2013

April 09, 2013

Exporting Love, Exporting Hate

One of the more striking contrasts between Rocky's mission and IHOP's is that his orphans...

November 2012

November 25, 2012

For Better or Until Something Better Comes Along

Love is the secular American religion. It is the consideration around which all decisions are...

July 2012

July 28, 2012

Emma, Merida, and the Female Bildungsroman

In his critical reception history for the novel in the Bedford edition, Alistair Duckworth notes...

July 19, 2012

The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012)

As I've acknowledged elsewhere, the Batman of this series of films is not the same...

April 2012

April 13, 2012

Love Free or Die (Alston, 2012)

Nobody has ever hated me the way Christians have hated me.

October 2011

October 13, 2011

Courageous (Kendrick,2011)

I thought I was going to get away without having to write anything about Alex...

April 2010

April 25, 2010

Fish Out of Water (Dickens, 2010)

I suppose a Christian corollary would be that to truly make a Biblical argument, you...

April 10, 2010

Family Affair (Colvard, 2010)

One in four women over the age of eighteen has experienced some form of sexual...

December 2009

December 10, 2009

A Serious Man (Coen & Coen, 2009)

There is something about the existential angst of Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) that--I don't know--might...

September 2009

September 07, 2009

To Be or Not To Be (Lubitsch, 1942)

The larger point, though, is that Hollywood has participated from the beginning in shaping our...

September 06, 2009

You’ve Come a (Long?) Way, Baby

Oh, we like to congratulate ourselves in the West (and America in particular) that women...

August 2009

August 16, 2009

Dis-Enchanted: Female Power and Authority in Ella Enchanted and Kill Bill:Volume 2

Originally delivered as an address to the Midwest Conference on Language, Literature and Media (MCLLM)...

August 04, 2009

John Huston

Huston said of directing: "[...] I try to direct as little as possible. The more...

July 2009

July 10, 2009

Anarchy at the Movies (Part II)

One way that fuzziness is manifested is in the way that anarchy gets conflated with...

July 05, 2009

Anarchy at the Movies (Part I)

Perhaps the most unfortunate thing about Culture and Anarchy, Matthew Arnold's series of essays that...

June 2009

June 23, 2009

Charlie Chaplin: A King in New York

The nature of a celebrity interview is that it can be hit or miss. Surely...

May 2009

May 29, 2009

Up (Docter, 2009)

As such, there has always been something troubling to me about the increasing insistence of...

May 26, 2009

Nicholas Ray

"You're tearing me apart!" The line--the plaintive cry--is synonymous with Rebel Without A Cause and...

May 24, 2009

Ingmar Bergman: (Smiles of a Summer Night, 1955)

My relationship with the films of Ingmar Bergman has been analogous to that with a...

May 05, 2009

Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick, 1999)

I do not want to give the impression, however, that Eyes Wide Shut is only...

April 2009

April 18, 2009

The Servant (Losey, 1963)

If you enter the terms "servant," "losey," and "creepy" into the Google search engine, you...

April 18, 2009

Claude Chabrol

Claude Chabrol, who is still alive and still working, has seventy-one directorial film credits listed...

April 18, 2009

Documentary Film and the Power of Empathy

A look at some of the best films of the 2008 Full Frame Documentary Film...

April 18, 2009

The Bitter Tea of Mister Capra

People in Capra films--and I'm including the Why We Fight series in this assertion--have high...

April 18, 2009

Forgetting Dad (Minnich, 2008)

Forgetting Dad is a beautiful, melancholy, and deeply compassionate film...