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2024-03-15T08:59:23-06:00

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Dear White People: Our Daily Microaggressions

Last updated on: March 15, 2024 at 8:59 am By Craig Detweiler

Dear White People is a letter (or film) addressed to people like me. I am a college educated, indie film fan, aware of America’s tangled history of race relations, and eager to do the right thing. And yet, Dear White People senses that I (maybe even we) haven’t rooted out a curious fascination and indirect racism in my expectations. We feel familiar enough with black folks to expect certain patterns and tendencies. In slotting colleagues into such boxes, we further... Read more

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2024-03-15T08:57:12-06:00

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How Transformers and Michael Bay Shill for China (& Undercut Hong Kong)

Last updated on: March 15, 2024 at 8:57 am By Craig Detweiler

I was so happy to miss Transformers: Age of Extinction in theaters. Director Michael Bay engages in such an unrelenting assault on the senses. The cuts and crashes happen so fast and so frequently that audiences rarely have time to consider what is actually transpiring onscreen. Most viewers don’t care where Optimus Prime and the Autobots have come from or how Mark Wahlberg became an inventor in rural Texas with a Boston townie accent. We want to see metal crunch... Read more

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2014-10-09T13:26:28-06:00

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WHIPLASH: What Price Glory?

Last updated on: October 9, 2014 at 1:26 pm By Craig Detweiler

Whiplash is the bracing flip-side to Mr. Holland’s Opus, an exploration of how cruel and demanding teachers may drive students to dizzying heights (if they don’t destroy them in the process). It is feel good film about a feel bad teacher, Terence Fletcher, and his driven student, Andrew Neyman. Whiplash depicts the hours of practice necessary to achieve genuine excellence, but it also questions the wisdom of such a single-minded pursuit. Andrew wants to be a game-changing musician associated with... Read more

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2014-10-07T10:55:23-06:00

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Musical Healing in God Help the Girl

Last updated on: October 7, 2014 at 10:55 am By Craig Detweiler

Where does music come from? Is there a deity who bestows the perfect pop songs? Stuart Murdoch of Belle and Sebastian desperately wants to craft the ultimate three minute single. From “If You’re Feeling Sinister” in 1996 to the “The Life Pursuit” in 2006, Murdoch has polished his songwriting chops, updating the sixties sounds of Burt Bacharach through an arresting Scottish lilt. Murdoch’s effervescent new musical, God Help the Girl, melds psychosis and spirituality into an arresting mélange of twee... Read more

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2014-07-31T20:38:16-06:00

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Calvary and the Cost of Following God

Last updated on: July 31, 2014 at 8:38 pm By Craig Detweiler

How shall the Roman Catholic Church pay for her sins? Read more

2014-04-14T02:31:34-06:00

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Jesus in the Movies: A Complicated History

Last updated on: April 14, 2014 at 2:31 am By Craig Detweiler

After Son of God, Noah, and God’s Not Dead demonstrated strong box office appeal, the media has dubbed 2014 as “The Year of the Biblical Epic.” Stories in the Los Angeles Times, Fox News, NPR, The Daily Beast, U.S. News and World Report and The Telegraph have chronicled this ‘flood’ of faith fueled films. Another religiously themed movie opens this week: Randall Wallace’s stirring adaptation of the bestseller, Heaven is For Real. Later this year, Christian Bale will take on the... Read more

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2014-02-20T09:39:06-07:00

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The Haunting Reality Beyond Captain Phillips

Last updated on: February 20, 2014 at 9:39 am By Craig Detweiler

It took me a long time to work up the courage to see Captain Phillips. Despite all the positive reviews and even Academy Award nominations, I stayed away because the story struck me as far too real. I couldn’t view the movie as mere entertainment because I had followed another hijacking by Somali pirates with an intense personal interest. When Scott Adam retired from a career as an assistant director in Hollywood, he enrolled at Fuller Seminary. We were... Read more

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2014-02-05T19:52:21-07:00

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TREE OF LIFE: From Genesis to Revelation

Last updated on: February 5, 2014 at 7:52 pm By Craig Detweiler

A friend was recently searching for my original review of Tree of Life and discovered it was no longer available online. So here are my initial thoughts about Terrence Malick’s towering cinematic achievement from May 2011: Tree of Life resurrects the era when Hollywood still aspired to greatness. Not since 2001: A Space Odyssey (or less successfully, The Fountain) has a filmmaker attempted to capture both the origins of life and our ultimate destination. Terrence Malick came of age when... Read more

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2014-01-31T10:19:27-07:00

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THE ESOTERIC ELVIS: Gary Tillery’s “The Seeker King”

Last updated on: January 31, 2014 at 10:19 am By Craig Detweiler

I have always been an Elvis fan, initially because we shared the same birthday. Over time, I came to truly love his classic songs, from the Sun Sessions in Memphis to his NBC Comeback Special in 1968. When Elvis was encouraged to find something deep within his soul, the results were startling—a bolt of rock and roll lightning. Yet, in between the early Elvis and the comeback Elvis were years of Hollywood Elvis, phoning it in for the movies. What... Read more

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2024-03-15T08:57:54-06:00

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Behind the Oscar Snubs and Surprises

Last updated on: March 15, 2024 at 8:57 am By Craig Detweiler

Plenty will be written about how Tom Hanks, Robert Redford, Emma Thompson, and Oprah Winfrey got snubbed by the Oscars. Many may wonder how Inside Llewyn Davis and Saving Mr. Banks and Lee Daniels’ The Butler could be overlooked for Best Picture (after all, the Academy could have nominated 10 films, not just the nine that were recognized). Less will be written about why this occurred. What lies behind the Oscar nominations? While no one can know the mind of... Read more

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