Filmmakers Make a Vibrant Film Out of One of Life's Darkest Passages
#23: Declaration of War (2013)/French
Director: Valerie Donzelli
How do you make a b...
When Coming-of-Age Means Coming Out
Film #18: Pariah (2011)
Director: Dee Rees
Alike (Adepero Oduye) is a 17 year old lesbian who has had a strict Christ...
Film #10: Wadjda (2012)
Director: Haifaa Al Mansour
Wadjda (Waad Mohammed) is all that’s best about being an 11 year old girl. She is funny and feisty, long...
Documentary Gives A Human Face To Both Victims And Abusers
Film #8: Deliver Us From Evil (2006)
Director: Amy Berg
I write this just a couple of days aft...
Director of The Witch Talks 17th Century Calvinism, Goats, & The Current State of the Horror Genre
PARK CITY, UT - JANUARY 26: Director/writer Robert Egge...
Repression, Rebellion and Romance Among the Hassidim
How do you solve a problem like Meira? A young Hasidic Jewish mother living in Montreal, she is quietly be...
Can Faith As Small As a Mustard Seed, Or a Little Boy, Truly Move Mountains?
Director: ALEJANDRO MONTEVERDE/2015
Little Boy stands alone this weekend, in a ...
A Thanksgiving Special!
DIRECTOR: Woody Allen/1986
“You don’t deserve Cole Porter. You should stay with those groups that look like they’re going to stab th...
This Film Doesn't Have a Prayer... or We Can Use the Film's Tagline: "The End Begins"
Director: VIC ARMSTRONG/2014
Left Behind is supposed to be the big-bud...
The Passion of Father James
DIRECTOR: JOHN MICHAEL MCDONAGH/2014
Calvary opens with a jolt. In a tightly framed shot inside a confessional booth, Father Ja...