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July 2017

July 18, 2017

Necessary Images, Part 2

This post, continued from yesterday, appears as the Editorial Statement in Image issue #93 on the art of film guest...

July 17, 2017

Necessary Images, Part 1

This post appears as the Editorial Statement in Image issue #93 on the art of film guest edited by...

February 2017

February 23, 2017

Arts and Faith Top 10 Films of 2016: Part 2

Continued from yesterday. [Link to yesterday’s post here] Here are the remaining five films in...

February 22, 2017

Arts and Faith Top 10 Films of 2016: Part 1

Though the year of 2016 was a weighty year for politics and world events, it...

January 2017

January 26, 2017

To Run and Not Grow Weary, Part 2

By Jeffrey Overstreet. Maybe it was instinct that sent me back to relive the 1924...

January 25, 2017

To Run and Not Grow Weary, Part 1

By Jeffrey Overstreet. So, why Chariots of Fire? Why is that what I chose for...

December 2016

December 15, 2016

A Conversation with Scott Derrickson, Part 2

Continued from yesterday. Scott Derrickson is a director whose films include The Exorcism of Emily Rose,...

December 14, 2016

A Conversation with Scott Derrickson, Part 1

Interviewed by Nick Olson Scott Derrickson is a director whose films include The Exorcism of Emily Rose,...

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...

July 2016

July 19, 2016

Risen

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

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...

June 02, 2016

The World Beyond the Room

The most obvious analysis of Emma Donoghue’s Room, one of last year’s most heralded films,...

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...

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...

January 21, 2015

Childhood Cinema Redux

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

December 2014

December 11, 2014

The Infinite Sincerity of Bill Murray

In Bill Murray’s long movie career, I don’t think he’s ever played a flat out...