Blade Runner begged you to seek answers. Blade Runner 2049 invites you to let go and enjoy.
+ MoreThe Florida Project is a slice-of-life drama that follows the summer adventures of a six-year-old who lives with her mother in the “Magic Castle” motel.
+ MoreThe Mountain Between Us delivers action, adventure, and breathtaking visuals. It also tries to deliver a love story and some drama.
+ MoreLoving Vincent narrates the mysteries surrounding Van Gogh’s death through the memories of characters based on the artist’s famous portraits.
+ MoreThere is much to love about the third episode of Star Trek: Discovery, which is essentially the show’s true pilot episode. We are finally introduced to the titular starship, which is a ship of mysteries.
+ MoreWhile comical and, at times, socially poignant, Battle of the Sexes remains a poorly woven sports biopic. Most of the film felt like a battle of sexualities as the film centralizes King’s extramarital relationship with Marilyn.
+ MoreThe Klingons function not as “the enemy” but as a means to explore and understand how people even within a nation can have completely different views from each other.
+ MoreClose Encounters of the Third Kind’s religious vision is striking.
+ MoreA good horror film forces you to confront the depravities of human behavior in extreme circumstances, to test the limits or expose the gaps in our morality. It Comes At Night asks how far a person or a family would go to protect themselves, and what they lose in the process.
+ MoreWhere to begin? The finale had everything—the beginning, ending, and mending of relationships; meetings upon meetings of both friends and foes; long-hidden or unknown truths coming to light; an ice dragon. It was a lot to take in.
+ MoreThe episode ends with perhaps one of the most terrifying and haunting images.
+ MoreInflated dreams of fame and fortune, stemming from a genuine passion and an authentic talent, Patricia Dombrowski, better known as Killer P or Patti Cake$, is on a mission to explode onto the golden green stages of hip hop and bullet train out of her tiny New Jersey life as fast as she can.
+ MoreDirector Steven Soderbergh has called his film, Logan Lucky, “Ocean’s 11’s inbred cousin.”
+ MoreAs it has done each year since 1973, SIGNIS and INTERFILM joined together to appoint an ecumenical jury to choose that film in the festival’s competition that best portrayed “human experience that is in harmony with the gospel” or best sensitized “viewers to spiritual, human or social questions and values.” I was privileged to be part of the Ecumenical Jury this year.
+ MoreThough the episode was clearly about trust, when we offer it and to whom, there is one giant allusion the writers are hinting at throughout…
+ MoreOn Wednesday, August 9, we were happy to host a panel discussion preceding a screening of Annabelle: Creation, entitled “In Defense of Evil.”
+ MoreIn light of my current research on the horror genre, I am increasingly convinced that the reason we continue to see so many horror films in the twenty-first century is because they are providing the broader culture with a much-needed avenue for navigating the various traumas that seem to define much of contemporary life.
+ MoreWhat can we take away from this week, besides a rollercoaster of intense emotions? While the plot is narrowing to a handful of stories, it is the unexpected that continues to play a primary role.
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