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May 2012

May 24, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: Adaptation (2002)

"For all of this witty meta-one-upsmanship, Adaptation does make two thought provoking points: adaptation involves...

May 21, 2012

The Moviegoer: Lucky Life is Like This

"Lucky Life deals with suffering, friendship, marriage, memory, death, and faith -- communicated in an...

May 17, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: "Being John Malkovich," Being Puppets Without Strings

"It's not a fun truth that we all want to be somebody else. In fact,...

May 10, 2012

The Moviegoer: You can be "Elitist" and still really enjoy "The Avengers"

"I take issue with the insinuation that one can't enjoy The Avengers for what it...

May 10, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: A Critique of Criticism

"But more than the film’s source for comedy, irony is at the heart of everything...

May 03, 2012

The Moviegoer: "The Kid with a Bike" and the Love that Never Leaves

"As his search becomes more revealing, Cyril’s child-like faith in his father begins to erode,...

April 2012

April 26, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: The First Rule of Fighting Yourself…

"If I buy what the film's selling, then the only consolation I have is that...

April 26, 2012

The Moviegoer: Better Moral Discernment Requires the Cultivation of the Imagination

"If mature moviegoers are truly concerned with discernment, then they'd better start cultivating finer imaginations...

April 19, 2012

The Moviegoer: Slashing the Voyeur's View of "The Cabin in the Woods"

"What if the protective one-way mirror that supports the slasher sub-genre's one-dimensional characters and our...

April 16, 2012

Blue Like Jazz: A New Kind of Christian Film

Guest writer David Roark finds the same old problems in Blue Like Jazz as in...

April 05, 2012

The Moviegoer: Jeff, Who Needs to Leave Home

"Responsibility involves both participation in, and recognition of, a larger order -- not one or...

April 05, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: "Annie Hall," Romance, and Real Love

"I get the feeling that remembering what was supposedly great is far more fun that...

March 2012

March 29, 2012

The Moviegoer: After the Final Kill — A Special Episode of "The Hunger Games"

"I can't help but wonder if 'Games' has its enthusiasts due to a deep-seated preference...

March 29, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: "Badlands" (Malick, 1973)

"The movie about a young spree-killer and his 'along for the ride' girl gives us...

March 26, 2012

The Hunger Games, the Movie, and the Problem of Film Violence

How do you portray teens fighting to the death without reinforcing the problems The Hunger...

March 22, 2012

The Moviegoer: "John Carter" Is an Entertaining Sci-Fi Fantasy Beneath the Box Office Flop

"After the film, I felt an overriding sense of satisfaction at how thoroughly entertaining John...

March 22, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: "Doubt" (Shanley, 2008)

"The film ultimately believes in doubt, thus robbing both belief and doubt of their potency."

March 15, 2012

The Moviegoer: Secret Worlds, New Perspectives

"The Secret World of Arrietty is a charming tribute to the inquisitive mind, to the...

March 15, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: "Roger & Me" (Moore, 1989)

"In a way, the film documents the toppling of an idol, an exposed god."

March 08, 2012

The Moviegoer: "Act of Valor" (McCoy & Waugh, 2012)

"Act of Valor is not the total embarrassment that some critics say it is --...

March 01, 2012

The Moviegoer: Chronicling the Descent into Villainy

"We are not just seeing why Andrew is the way he is, but we’re also...

February 2012

February 23, 2012

The Moviegoer: Oscars 2012 Preview

"I want to share some predictions, hopes, and regrets for all of the major categories."

February 23, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: Interiors (Woody Allen, 1978)

"Is it better to have no spirituality than its pretentious simulacrum?"

February 22, 2012

Of Oscar Nominees and Disgruntled Critics

The films we celebrate should better support moments where we naturally feel good, and not...

February 16, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: "High Noon" (Zinnemann, 1952)

But this film is poignant because Kane’s recent poor performance deserves a lion’s share of...

February 16, 2012

The Moviegoer: A Dark Shade of Grey

To be sure, "existential” is an apt term to describe much of "The Grey"'s philosophical...

February 09, 2012

The Moviegoer: Noticing "The Mill and the Cross"

Majewski’s film is a testament to great art, to the artist as weaver and the...

January 2012

January 26, 2012

Eat Your Vegetables: "Inglorious Basterds" (Tarantino, 2009)

The thing that I admire most about "Inglorious Basterds" is that it enforces moral responsibility.

January 26, 2012

The Moviegoer: What's Oscar Nostalgic For?

On Tuesday, the 2011 Oscar nominees were announced, and it seems that one of the...

January 25, 2012

Music at Mars Hill: Most "Original" Score?

"I'm of the persuasion that the way we recognize and receive a medium like music...

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