Reel Spirituality

More Resources for a Deeply Formed Spiritual Life

The Last Race

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Director Michael Dweck is able to impart a very palpable impression of what is to love in and around these tracks, and why the loss of so beautiful a thing would be such a tragedy.

Man on Fire

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“When Christ calls a man, He bids him come and die.”
These words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer may have reverberated in Rev. Charles Moore’s mind when he got out of his car, knelt down, and lit himself on fire in a parking lot on June 23, 2014.

Minding the Gap

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Just as skateboarding seems to transcend the sum of its parts, filmmaker Bing Liu has crafted a work of transcendent film out of the trappings of what might seem at first like a skate video.

Marfa

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What if the entire population of a given place was made up of artists? Marfa, Texas is a place where you can find out.

A Thousand Thoughts

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“A Thousand Thoughts” is not merely a film. Rather, it is a one−time and wholly unique experience, part live performance, part lecture, and part documentary about modern string quartet, Kronos, performing a live score for the film about themselves.

Sundance 2018 – Day 4 – Roslyn Hernandez

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Reviews of “Tyrel” and “A Futile and Stupid Gesture” along with Roslyn Hernandez’ impressions of Sundance 2018.

White Rabbit

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It is the rare film that offers its actors room to be fully themselves, and it’s the ideal comedy to capture life in contemporary Los Angeles.

Sundance 2018 – Days 1-3 – Roslyn Hernandez

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Apart from the low temperatures, I have experienced the environment of the festival as an interesting mix of friendly confusion, great discussions, excitement, encouraged film-geeking, and gratitude towards the incredibly patient shuttle drivers and volunteers.

Star Trek: Discovery – S1, Es11 and 12 – Risks and Reveals

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For the first time in a long time, my jaw literally dropped at the end of a Star Trek episode.

Phantom Thread

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The stuff of the plot concerns a dressmaker in 1950s London who, for all his talent, opportunity, and renown, is frustratingly compelled to copulate.

Kailash

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“Change is not knocking on your door. Change is knocking on your heart. You cannot sit quiet after watching this film.”

Podcast with subjects of “I’ll Push You” documentary

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The subject of “I’ll Push You” open up about their 500-mile journey on the Camino de Santiago.

Paddington 2

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Paddington really works for the shalom of his community, and his community knows and loves him for it.

Star Trek: Discovery – S1, E10 – Despite Yourself

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In the Mirror Universe, the crew of the Discovery is forced to explore a darker side of their personalities.

I, Tonya

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Tonya Harding dares us to choose to love her in full view of her faults. It seems no one ever has.

The Post

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“The Post” serves as a poignant celebration of the free press in American society.

Fuller Studio plus

The Shape of Water

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The Shape of Water is about love and how it, like water, has no natural shape.

Call Me By Your Name

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It’s one of the best films of the year, and I expect to hear its name often during awards season. Movies are rarely so well composed and paced.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

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May the Force be with you. And also with you.

The Disaster Artist

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This is the first great film of the Trump era.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

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Three Billboards is well-acted, consistently funny, and thematically evocative, but it’s hard to buy the world of the film.