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July 2014

July 01, 2014

Earth to Echo (Green 2014)

A sweet, fun movie that will please everyone except the boomers who will want to...

June 2014

June 26, 2014

Burning Bush (Holland, 2013)

I am about to recommend a four hour movie--a three episode television miniseries, actually--in Czech,...

June 17, 2014

Burt’s Buzz (Shapiro, 2013)

The film strives so hard to model its subject that its practically not there.

June 12, 2014

Manuscripts Don’t Burn (Rasoulof, 2013)

The setting of Manuscripts Don't Burn may be painstakingly specific, but its themes are broad,...

June 11, 2014

22 Jump Street (Lord & Miller, 2014)

For now, I'll will just say that my defense of 22 Jump Street is nearly...

June 10, 2014

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit — Now Available on DVD

The new Jack Ryan doesn't so much have greatness thrust upon him as shoved down...

June 09, 2014

Kids’ Rights: The Business of Adoption (Dudko and Rudnieva, 2014)

A new documentary claims that there are over 132 million orphans in state custody. In...

June 01, 2014

Troy (Petersen, 2004) — 10 Years Later: Part II

In Part I of this essay, Jeremy Purves looked back at critics' reviews of Troy...

May 2014

May 30, 2014

Frank vs. God (Schill, 2014)

Frank vs. God is one of my favorite films thus far into the movie year,...

May 24, 2014

Troy (Petersen, 2004) — 10 Years Later: Part I

It has now been ten years since Wolfgang Petersen’s old-fashionedly classic film on the Trojan...

May 24, 2014

Sleeping Beauty (Geronimi, 1959)

In my memory, I have always falsely grouped Sleeping Beauty with Disney's animated features from...

May 21, 2014

No God, No Master (Green, 2012)

Nobody in No God, No Master actually utters the phrase "those who forget the past...

May 17, 2014

Locke (Knight, 2014)

It is a good movie, certainly, and it is not writer/director Steven Knight's fault that...

May 12, 2014

Bright Days Ahead (Vernoux, 2013)

Bright Days Ahead is a notch better than both Le Week-end and The Face of...

May 04, 2014

Fahrenheit 9/11 (Moore, 2004) — Ten Years Later

My complaints are two, and they are both the more frustrating for obscuring the occasional...

May 03, 2014

Moms’ Night Out (Erwin and Erwin, 2014)

Moms' Night Out is the first (and so far only) "Christian" movie that I could...

April 2014

April 26, 2014

Inside Hana’s Suitcase (Weinstein, 2009)

Few events in history have been the subject of as many books and films as...

April 26, 2014

Film Fest DC — 2014

If 2014 is, as has been rumored, the final year of Film Fest DC, the...

April 24, 2014

The Railway Man (Teplitzky, 2013)

Does depicting torture automatically earn a movie three stars or more if it is inspired...

April 22, 2014

White Lies (Rotberg, 2013)

That's probably one reason why there are so few genuinely engaging movies about abortion. Most...

April 15, 2014

Art Recession (Lai, 2011)

Ming Lai's Art Recession is comprised of a series of testimonials, relentless in their focus....

April 09, 2014

T. C. Johnstone Interview

Director T. C. Johnstone visited Campbell University as part of its Undergraduate Lecture Symposium. He...

April 08, 2014

We Don’t Need No Education…or Do We? — Full Frame Day 3

It's not surprising then that a trio of films from this year's festival look at...

April 04, 2014

Who Do You Say That I Am? — Full Frame Day 2

What do Pamela Smart and Viktor Bout have in common?

April 02, 2014

Heaven is For Real Creators Talk About Their Hopes for the Film

"I would not come to a movie that I thought was a sermon."

March 2014

March 31, 2014

More Than The Rainbow

Here is something that doesn't happen nearly as often in documentaries as it does in...

March 28, 2014

Hide Your Smiling Faces (Carbone 2013)

The most commented upon feature of Daniel Patrick Carbone's directorial debut, Hide Your Smiling Faces,...

March 28, 2014

Noah (Aronofsky, 2014)

Minority opinions are important things, particularly in Christian circles where they are rarely trumpeted or...

March 28, 2014

Bad Words (Bateman, 2013)

Bad Words is the third film I have seen in as many weeks featuring an...

March 22, 2014

The Jesus Film (Krish and Sykes, 1979)

The place of The Jesus Film in such a catalog is idiosyncratic. Made as an...