Sweet Tooth Developed by Jim Mickle (Nightshade, 2021) Kids in cages. A global pandemic that kills millions. Exhausted doctors and caretakers. Fearful people...
TV and film
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...
Judas and the Black Messiah Directed by Shaka King (Warner Bros. Pictures, 2021) It has been more than 50 years since the FBI conspired with the Chicago Police...
It’s so nice to visit England. It’s even more delightful to time travel back to the years before the Second World War, remembered nostalgically through the...
