Tag: Faith

  • This Is Not A Burial, It’s A Resurrection

    This Is Not A Burial, It’s A Resurrection

    If faith can give meaning to one’s life, conversely, losing the meaning of life can make one lose faith. We may look at the heroine of This is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection, Mantoa, an old widow who first suffers from bereavement and then eviction with all her neighbors. In this plight, what does…

  • Ad Astra

    Ad Astra

    I entered the film Ad Astra (or “to the stars”) not really knowing what to expect other than it was another Brad Pitt vehicle. Almost coincident to his star turn with great reviews in Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, Pitt is also featured in this film. Would it be a cheap knock-off science…

  • First Reformed

    First Reformed

    Paul Schrader is better known for his writing than directing. Though he’s directed over 20 films, it’s his screenwriting collaborations with Martin Scorsese that have stood the test of time. Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and Bringing Out the Dead highlight Schrader’s proclivities as a writer. All three feature a tortured protagonist walking against the current…

  • You Were Never Really Here

    You Were Never Really Here

    One of the hardest things to do in a movie theater in 2018 is to surprise. With bloodthirsty marketing campaigns and relentless internet sleuths, any promising movie twist is usually dead in the water months before it hits the silver screen. The rare exception comes in the form of the occasional indie hit or maybe…

  • Annihilation

    Annihilation

    Our podcast this month was originally on A Wrinkle in Time. Then we saw the movie… Tune in to the beginning for Jon’s epic rant, and then stay for a discussion of a movie that’s actually worth talking about: Annihilation. Alex Garland is a prolific writer, ranging from novels (The Beach) to screenplays (28 Days…

  • Novitiate / Hostiles / Call Me by Your Name

    Novitiate / Hostiles / Call Me by Your Name

    Welcome to another edition of Mini-Review Roundup where we present smaller reviews of several movies at once. Up this month: Novitiate, Hostiles, and Call Me by Your Name.   Novitiate   Nothing scares me more than a movie about faith. I’ll take a tank full of sharks over watching the foundation of my life butchered…

  • Mully

    Mully

    Mully is a documentary that tells the story of the extraordinary life of Charles Mully. Mully’s story is so impossible that if you pitched it to a studio, they’d tell you to try telling a true story with some elements of reality in it. Come to think of it, if you pitched Mully’s story to your…

  • Alien: Covenant / Spiderman: Homecoming / It Comes at Night / The Big Sick

    Alien: Covenant / Spiderman: Homecoming / It Comes at Night / The Big Sick

    At Cinema Faith, we wish we could provide feature-length reviews for every movie that hits theaters. Unfortunately, some films fall through the cracks. Welcome to another edition of Mini-Review Roundup where we present smaller reviews of several movies at once. This month we review Alien: Covenant, Spiderman: Homecoming, It Comes at Night, and The Big…

  • Logan

    Logan

    When the 10th film in which Hugh Jackman portrays the Wolverine opens, we find a washed up version of the super mutant asleep in the back of a vehicle we presume he drives as part of his chauffeuring gig he has undertaken as he assumes a new life under the radar. Logan crosses back and…

  • The Innocents

    The Innocents

    Faith is twenty four hours of doubt, and one minute of hope. Serene liturgical music fills the ears as the film opens, the voices of women, nuns in a contemplative convent. And we are held there, just long enough, long enough to feel the way a sacred space can open something within us, can deepen…