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January 2017

January 24, 2017

Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea

It’s impossible to speak of Kenneth Lonergan’s film Manchester by the Sea without alluding to...

January 06, 2017

Listening to Silence

I arrived at the advanced screening for Martin Scorsese’s new film, Silence, in the worst...

September 2016

September 14, 2016

What My Kid Knew about Kubo

[Spoiler alert: This post is about the end of the movie, Kubo and the Two...

August 2016

August 25, 2016

In the Company of Women, Part II

By Jeffrey Overstreet Continued from yesterday. “You’re the sort of man who can’t know anyone...

August 24, 2016

In the Company of Women, Part I

By Jeffrey Overstreet In late July of 1992, Batman Returns ruled the box office. I...

August 17, 2016

Florence Foster Jenkins, Holy Fool

By Asher Gelzer-Govatos In many respects the new film Florence Foster Jenkins takes a paint...

July 2016

July 19, 2016

Risen

In a well-written and well-acted scene from Kevin Reynolds and Paul Aiello’s recent film, Risen,...

July 06, 2016

Boyhood and the Incarnation of Time

The hardest part of watching Boyhood for me wasn’t the film itself but going back...

June 2016

June 23, 2016

God Ponders the Heart

In Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth, the writers frame the story in such a way that the...

May 2016

May 05, 2016

The Lone Ranger’s Easter Narrative

His back to us and to the camera, the hero walks silently away. His work...

March 2016

March 23, 2016

Better Call Saul

Better Call Saul, a prequel to AMC’s milestone series, Breaking Bad, further establishes co-creators Vince Gilligan...

March 21, 2016

A Space Program

The tenth item on a list entitled “How to Watch This Film,” which accompanies Tom Sachs' A...

March 09, 2016

Finding My Inner Calamity Jane

Calamity Jane lumbered around Deadwood in fringed buckskins, spitting, cursing, and waving her whiskey flask...

February 2016

February 15, 2016

The Coen Brothers, Plato, and the Imagination

By Santiago Ramos Note: This review contains mild spoilers. Hail, Caesar!, the Coen Brothers’ latest...

February 05, 2016

Brooklyn: A Drama of Discernment

One of the hardest things in life is having two good choices that are completely...

January 2016

January 13, 2016

Winners: Arts & Faith Ecumenical Jury Awards for 2015, Part 2

By Kenneth R. Morefield. Continued from yesterday. Read Part 1 here. Coninuing yesterday’s list of...

January 12, 2016

Winners: Arts & Faith Ecumenical Jury Film Awards for 2015, Part 1

By Kenneth R. Morefield The 2015 Arts & Faith Ecumenical Jury Film Awards had a decidedly...

December 2015

December 23, 2015

Repression, Oppression, Suppression: A Life of Domestic Routine

Somewhere in the middle of Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, the eponymous...

March 2015

March 03, 2015

The Arts and Faith Top 25 Films on Memory

By Ryan Holt For me, there is no more acute reminder of the passing of...

February 2015

February 11, 2015

Hazel Motes Is Out of Time

TCM broadcast John Huston’s film version of Wise Blood yesterday, and I wound up watching...

January 2015

January 29, 2015

The Sublime and Beautiful

From antiquity to the Enlightenment, one of the great aesthetic dichotomies involved the sublime and...

January 21, 2015

Childhood Cinema Redux

Over our recent winter break, my husband and I introduced our two older kids to...

December 2014

December 31, 2014

Arts & Faith Ecumenical Jury Awards: The Top Ten Films of 2014

Guest post by Kenneth R. Morefield In my post announcing the formation of the Arts...

November 2014

November 28, 2014

Elsa Blue and Frozen Power

For Chad Thomas Johnston Along with Kermit green, Barbie pink and—Lord have mercy—SpongeBob yellow, we...

October 2014

October 21, 2014

Fury: The Beautification of Violence?

Guest post by Christine A. Scheller I loathe violent movies. When my husband watches them...

May 2014

May 13, 2014

Ruin and Possibility in David Gordon Green’s Joe

How many of our triumphs in a long and confusing life are accountable not to...

March 2014

March 12, 2014

The United Cinematic States of America

Guest post by Gareth Higgins “You have to be a stranger to the landscape to...

March 07, 2014

Her and Him: Digital Love and Divine Analogues

Sunday at the Oscars, Spike Jonze deservedly won Best Original Screenplay for Her, his dystopian...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

The Arts and Faith Top 25 Divine Comedies

Guest post by Steven D. Greydanus A joke can be so big that it breaks...

January 2014

January 23, 2014

Media Matrimony for Better for Worse, Part 2

In yesterday’s post, I began to explore the questions posed to me by W. David...