Film Review: The Sunday Sessions

The Sunday Sessions is excruciating. The good kind of excruciating. This fly-on-the-wall documentary from director Richard Yeagley follows Nathan, a committed Christian, as he undergoes “conversion therapy” in an attempt to overcome his homosexuality. [Note... Read More
Film Review: Melodrama and Loss of Privacy Swirl in The Circle

What cruel mind would object to lowering the occurrence of rape and murder? Or to preventing fatal diseases from developing before they even exist? Or to sharing various experiences that make life worth living with... Read More
Film Review: The Case for Christ

Since I started writing film reviews, I’ve done three on movies that could properly be labeled as “right-wing,” either in a religious or political sense: God’s Not Dead 2, Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the... Read More
Review: The Most Hated Woman in America

Madalyn Murray O’Hair was the founder of American Atheists and a force to be reckoned with. Known as tough, unapologetic, and even brutal at times, including to those she loved, O’Hair was a true revolutionary... Read More
Disney’s Gay Moment in Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast is the classic tale of the beautiful townswoman Belle, who falls unexpectedly in love with her captor, the cursed beast who lives in a remote enchanted castle in the woods outside... Read More
Film Review: The Shack Bad Humor, Bad Theology, Bad Religious Metaphors

How bad is the scripture-based humor in The Shack, a film that hit theaters Friday and is being promoted as an uplifting spiritual journey? When Mack Phillips (Sam Worthington) first meets the Father, the Son and... Read More
Film Review: I Am Not Your Negro

James Baldwin was a national treasure. Through his masterful writing and oratorical deliberations on race and Black America’s constant struggle for justice and recognition of our humanity, Baldwin’s poetic potency proves timeless as it continues... Read More