Stillwater Directed by Tom McCarthy (Participant, 2021) Stillwater opens to the roar of demolition, a quick montage of heartland decay as Matt Damon’s Bill...
TV and film
There’s a touching scene toward the end of the new documentary Who Are You, Charlie Brown? where Charles Schulz, the creator of the beloved Peanuts characters...
Sweet Tooth Developed by Jim Mickle (Nightshade, 2021) Kids in cages. A global pandemic that kills millions. Exhausted doctors and caretakers. Fearful people...
Somos. Created by James Schamus (Netflix, 2021) The title sequence of Netflix’s Somos. is a patchwork of black-and-white images of dozens of faces. Without any...
Best Summer Ever (available on Hoopla and to buy or rent on streaming platforms) is a predictable summer film about adolescent yearning and intrigue, an homage...
“True Facts,” little bitty animal movies, are treasures of bug and bird and bat lore. They are laugh-out-loud delightful, thanks to Ze Frank, their witty...
The Chosen Created by Dallas Jenkins (Loaves & Fishes Productions, 2019-ongoing) In certain circles, each season of The Chosen, a web-TV retelling of the...
Waffles + Mochi Directed by Jeremy Konner (Higher Ground Productions, 2021) My toddler has eaten waffles every day since he learned how to chew. So when I...
What if cinema can kindle our hermeneutical impulse so that we are able to imagine women disciples gathered around Jesus’ table, and walking shoulder to...
The Life Ahead Directed by Edoardo Ponti (Netflix, 2020) Set in the southern Italian port of Bari, Edoardo Ponti’s The Life Ahead weaves together the lives of...
