Category: Review

  • Stevie

    Stevie

    If a play were to be written based on my life – baseless idea as that is – but if the thing were to be done, I’d probably ask for Hugh Whitemore. There is not another playwright of his ability: the detail of a historian, the brevity of a poet, the ambition of a novelist.…

  • Traverse City Film Festival – Day Five

    Traverse City Film Festival – Day Five

    All good things must come to an end. After five jam-packed days, Ron is finished with the Traverse City Film Festival. Below is his final report and the links to the rest of his reviews. We hope you enjoyed Ron’s coverage of the festival! We’re already looking forward to next year… Day One Day Two…

  • Traverse City Film Festival – Day Four

    Traverse City Film Festival – Day Four

    Ron is still going strong at the Traverse City Film Festival. Festivals are exhausting, but nothing can damper his enthusiasm. His report from day four is below, as are the links to the previous three days… Day One Day Two Day Three Another beautiful day in northwestern Michigan. And another day of wonderful films. Readers…

  • Traverse City Film Festival – Day Three

    Traverse City Film Festival – Day Three

    He’s back! Ron is thoroughly enjoying himself at the Traverse City Film Festival. Here is his report from day three. Links to day one and two are below… Day One Day Two What a beautiful day at Traverse City with moderate temperatures and a wonderful, brisk breeze coming in off Grand Traverse Bay. However, the…

  • Traverse City Film Festival – Day Two

    Traverse City Film Festival – Day Two

    Ron is back with a report from day two of the Traverse City Film Festival. The link to day one is below in case you missed it… Day One Another nice day in Traverse City, Michigan with just a short period of sprinkles. Today we had 4 great films and a couple of disappointments. We…

  • Traverse City Film Festival – Day One

    Traverse City Film Festival – Day One

    This week Cinema Faith has the honor of reporting from the Traverse City Film Festival with our very own, Ron Steury! Ron will be giving us daily reports from the festival along with reviews of the films he watches. Here is the lowdown from day one. Take it away, Ron… The Traverse City Film Festival…

  • Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made

    Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made

    This website wouldn’t exist without Steven Spielberg. His films were the bedrock of my youth. I remember pretending my stuffed animals were alive like E.T. I was terrified of sharks, though I’d never stepped foot in an ocean, thanks to Jaws. And when my friends and I got together, we acted out scenes from Indiana…

  • Synecdoche, New York

    Synecdoche, New York

    The act of creation, if we are truly image bearers of the Divine, is deeply imprinted on our very being. Few films explore the consuming, and neurotic compulsion that is the creative process as deeply (and terrifyingly) as Synecdoche, New York. The 2002 Charlie Kaufman movie follows Caden Cotard, one of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s most…

  • A Child Is Waiting

    A Child Is Waiting

    The opening title sequence of A Child Is Waiting is a series of striking children’s drawings, primal and observant, done with the pencil pressed hard. At the end of it, the camera pushes in on a picture of a black cloud, not unlike the shape of a brain, that dissolves into a close up of…

  • The Boy and the Beast

    The Boy and the Beast

    American animated films tend to be formulaic slapstick. Of course this is Disney’s fault, but it’s also because we consider cartoons to be “for children,” therefore they must be easy to grasp and funny and sentimental. I would argue American animation labors under the same existential curse most adolescent entertainment does: sarcasm and narcissism disguised as a…