Film Review: Mother!
Please note: this review contains a number of specific plot details. Mother! is an exhausting allegorical film—sometimes moving, sometimes ridiculous. In truth, it’s more like a nightmare than a metaphor. Everything in it feels both... Read More
Film Review: The Little Hours: Nuns-Gone-Wild with a Bit of Truth to Boot
“Trash, pure trash,” is not the usual critic’s blurb most directors hope for when they promote a movie. Of course, director and writer Jeff Baena’s The Little Hours is not your typical tale of nuns... Read More
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