The film contends that “Bunchy” provided the galvanizing force the more militant civil rights activitsts needed in the late 60s before he was mysteriously gunned down by opponents…
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Reel Spirituality Hosts A Night of Interreligious Dialogue Around A Screening of The Adjustment Bureau
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Reassessing Our Attitude Towards Movies
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Reassessing Our Attitude Towards Movies
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Reassessing Our Attitude Towards the Movies
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I was harrowed by Winter’s Bone. Hailing from a rural area myself, I recognized in the burned out trailers and dirt roads the land of my youth. I knew growing up whose property to stay off of upon threat of my life…
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Marcus soon figures out Will’s selfish philosophy and lifestyle, and decides to change it. Besides he and his mother can use some help. As he says to Will, “Two people aren’t enough; you need a back-up.”
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Our experiences in a movie theater can range from pure entertainment to art to a divine moment. The Year of Living Dangerously became a moment of “conversion” in my life.
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This, however, does not mean one’s suffering will be eased in the meantime. What makes A Serious Man compelling is its ability to evoke a sense of helplessness that all of us have surely experienced at some point in life…
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The film is about moments, songs, conversations, and characters, and the characters are priceless as they embody the joys, pains, insights and misunderstandings of life.
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Goldman says that the script was written to capture the spirit of the journey that the Nashs made. It is the case that John and Alicia Nash (portrayed by Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly) “loved the screenplay.” But even if they hadn’t, Goldman’s attempt to bring the disease out of the corners of our world and into the light is worthy of commendation.
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2012 is ridiculous in an awesome kind of way, but what else can you expect from a disaster movie literally about the end of the world? The selling point here is the spectacle, so if you’re thinking of watching this for the biting social commentary or the nuanced character development, you’re going to be sorely disappointed. If you go into this expecting the ridiculous, you’ll love it.
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The Illusionist is one of the most beautiful movies I’ve ever seen. It is also one of the most heartbreaking. It is story of a man who awakens a belief in magic in a young girl who had no reason to believe in anything other than hunger and cold. She sticks herself to him like a song sticks in your head, and he spends himself to preserve her newly awakened sense of wonder.
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Citizen Kane: The Greatest Movie Ever Made – Well, maybe not…
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Science-fiction has long been the genre that wrestles best with the “improbable made possible,” to quote Rod Serling, and what that being “made possible” means for humanity. Science-fiction is the story-thought realm of technological, social, and political ethics. Sci-fi, for all its aliens, spaceships, and ray guns, is about the practical, immediate, tangible parts of our lives. Never Let Me Go is a good science-fiction film…
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One will be hard pressed to find another film that deals as explicitly with the idea of the soul, what it means to have a soul – to be some strange mix of the spiritual and physical – what it means that we are all soul-full beings, shaped by our experiences, and what our responsibilities are to ourselves and more importantly each other as soul-full women and men…
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Nonetheless, this is not the time to be cynical. Rather, we have all the more reason to forge ahead with perseverance and innovation, and to recognize and celebrate achievements whenever praise is due. Of all the films I saw in 2010, the following are my favorites…
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