The movie Fruitvale Station has received excellent reviews. Writing for The Atlantic, Jason Bailey says it may shed some light on the way that Americans
Last weekend was the 25th anniversary of the great baseball movie Bull Durham. I’ve been hoping for an opportunity, or perhaps an excuse, to post
Perhaps what makes this movie intriguing–this whole concept of “possession by an evil spirit”–is that, ultimately, we recognize that each of us has our own dibbuk box inside of us, as well as our own Ark of the Covenant.
Those who are asking the question about their own parental role as moral guides are asking a question about a cohort of humans for whom peers and culture are vastly more important than parents. Moreover, just as Katniss, Peeta, Gale and Rue see the injustice and horror of these games, they see the adults’ acquiescence to its horrors.
Last night I asked on Twitter whether anyone was working on the essay about the theological significance of the red carpet coverage of the Academy
Love Free or Die directed by Macky Alston wins Special Jury Prize for Grace Under Pressure.
Macky Alston’s documenatry film on Bishop Gene Robinson will be on the competition lineup at the 2012 Sundance FIlm Festival.
There is only one perspective portrayed in both the book and the movie, the perspective of white people. Black women are portrayed as one-dimensional, stereotypical ‘characters’ – not as real flesh and blood people with families, feelings, hopes, and dreams of their own. Real women who are just as able, smart, ambitious, and willing-to-take risks as Skeeter.
“Higher Ground” is the story of one woman’s spiritual journey from mainline Christianity to life in a tight-knit pentecostal church to her movement into the secular world while still maintaining intellectual curiosity and spiritual engagement. In this film, no one is without sin.
I saw this movie because as a child, I, too, had a speech impediment, and from one line I head in an NPR interview with director Tom Hooper – the King yelling, in Westminster Abbey, “I have a voice!” – I knew this movie was telling part of my story as well.