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March 2017

March 28, 2017

A GHOST STORY Trailer Release

There are few films that we are looking forward to as much as David Lowery's A...

March 15, 2017

At SXSW2017: DISGRACED

You know you've got a problem, if you're a university, when people lose track of...

March 14, 2017

At SXSW2017: PORNOCRACY

Ovidie is a French feminist filmmaker icon, who began her career in the world of...

March 14, 2017

At SXSW2017: WALK WITH ME

Walk With Me, the documentary with unprecedented access to Thich Nhat Hanh and his Zen...

March 13, 2017

At SXSW 2017: G-FUNK

Premiering at SXSW, G-Funk is a documentary chronicling the creation of the West Coast hip-hop...

March 13, 2017

At SXSW2017: FLESH AND BLOOD

Docudrama in the most pure and challenging sense of the word, Mark Webber’s Flesh and...

March 12, 2017

At SXSW2017: ATOMIC BLONDE

Atomic Blonde has all the action and brilliant fight choreography of the John Wick series...

March 12, 2017

At SXSW 2017: THE HONOR FARM

Lucy (Olivia Applegate) and her best friend Annie (Katie Folger) are set for the…best…night…ever. It’s...

March 12, 2017

At SXSW2017: LUCKY

Lucky's titular character is the perfect vehicle for Harry Dean Stanton, giving him ample opportunity to...

March 12, 2017

At SXSW2017: LET THERE BE LIGHT

Science! That's got to be the immediate reaction to Let There Be Light, the new...

March 12, 2017

At SXSW2017: SIGNATURE MOVE

Signature Move (written by Lisa Donato and Fawzia Miriam and directed by Jennifer Reeder) is...

March 12, 2017

At SXSW2017: STRANGER FRUIT

You have to watch a film like Stranger Fruit through two lenses to appreciate its...

March 12, 2017

At SXSW2017: TROPHY

I missed Trophy at Sundance, so I was glad for the chance to screen it...

March 11, 2017

At SXSW2017: AMERICAN GODS

It's not just about the tech, films, and music at SXSW anymore, and one of...

March 11, 2017

At SXSW2017: 2 PIGEONS

It's only day two here at SXSW, but 2 Pigeons will likely be not only...

March 02, 2017

Seeing the Unseen in MOONLIGHT

Film has the power to make the invisible visible. It can also force viewers to...

January 2017

January 26, 2017

At Sundance: THEIR FINEST

Their Finest wasn't on my radar going into Sundance this year, but it turned out...

January 25, 2017

At Sundance: COLUMBUS

Columbus, the first feature film from Kogonada, a video essayist and artist, reveals a filmmaker...

October 2016

October 01, 2016

#KillerSerials: 2016 Emmys

Tony Jones and Ryan Parker, as PhDs are want to do, belatedly discuss this year's...

June 2016

June 20, 2016

God, Guns, & Family: Why ‘Bible-Believing’ Christians Have no Right to Self Defense, Pt. 2

In my last post I proposed that, against the uniquely American theology of God, guns,...

June 18, 2016

God, Guns, & Family: Why ‘Bible-Believing’ Christians Have No Right to Self-Defense, Pt.1

Again, we find ourselves in national mourning for horrendous loss of life caused by a...

April 2016

April 22, 2016

Presbyterian Reflections on the Death of Prince

Strange things happen at summer camp. Even Christian summer camp. Away from parents, out in...

April 15, 2016

THE BIRTH OF A NATION Trailer

Fox Searchlight has just released the first trailer for The Birth of a Nation, the...

March 2016

March 14, 2016

At SXSW: ACCIDENTAL COURTESY

Perhaps one of the more disturbing trends of advances in media technology is that while...

March 13, 2016

At SXSW: A STRAY

Last year, a film used dogs to make a political, cultural, and religious statements about...

March 12, 2016

At SXSW: THE LIBERATORS

If you've seen The Monuments Men, then you're somewhat familiar with The Liberators, the new...

February 2016

February 17, 2016

Hollywood Schizophrenia

After the jump, check out my contribution to the Patheos Public Square and the conversation...

February 02, 2016

Ranking Sundance 2016

Below, I rank the films I saw at Sundance last week, separated by features and...

December 2015

December 09, 2015

A Christian Renounces His Right to Bear Arms

The latest mass shooting in San Bernadino has given me a feeling of despair I...

September 2015

September 02, 2015

On Kim Davis of Rowan County, Kentucky

I was born and raised in Kentucky. And while I’m not from the foothills of...