Documentary Asks: Do I Sound Gay?

What does your voice sound like to you? For many people, listening back to recordings of their own voice is disorienting at best, and soul-crushingly embarrassing at worst. Concerns about how clearly we speak, the... Read More
Film Review: Best of Enemies

If there is, by chance, an omnipotent being lurking around up there—somewhere out in the vast cosmic expanse—I imagine that, after creating the cosmos, the Earth, and all the living things upon it, this god... Read More
Film Review: Mad Max—A Two-Hour Chase Scene That Could Change Action Movies Forever

If you haven’t seen the latest iteration of Mad Max stop reading right now, walk out of work, get in your car, and race to the nearest theater. Trust me, it’s worth the angry phone... Read More
Film Review: Merchants of Doubt

DOCUMENTARY WRITTEN BY ROBERT KENNER AND KIM ROBERTS; DIRECTED BY ROBERT KENNER SONY PICTURES CLASSICS (2014) (USA) 93 MINUTES; PG-13 An outraged man goes to see his doctor. “Doc, you tell me I have a month... Read More
Film Review: Going Clear, HBO’s Documentary on Scientology

My favorite line from Casablanca is uttered by Captain Renault, exclaiming that he is “shocked—shocked—to find that gambling is going on in here!” right before a casino employee hands him his winnings. The makers of... Read More
We’re the Bad Guys! American Humanist Association Gets Mentioned in New Christian Film Do You Believe?

(The plot of this movie is so predictable that I really don’t think it needs a SPOILER ALERT.) This time last year, the Christian production company Pure Flix released the humanist-hating God’s Not Dead, which... Read More
Film Review: Chappie Is a Refreshingly Not-Set-in-America Imagining of a Technological Future

A coming-of-age story about a sentient robot, South African director Neill Blomkamp’s latest film, Chappie, is a sorely underrated and original film that leaves the audience, or at least me, musing on the endless possible... Read More