Tag: Sin

  • Rashomon

    Rashomon

    We’re back! After taking February off for all things Oscars, Jon and Tim are ready to turn the page on 2018…by talking about a really old movie. Yes, that’s right — 2019 will have to wait. It’s a dumpster fire in movie theaters right now, so we thought we’d travel back in time to 1950…

  • Klute

    Klute

    Early in Klute, Bree Daniels (Jane Fonda) returns home from an afternoon appointment with a John, has a bath, lights some candles, pours a glass of wine and sits at her kitchen table, smoking a joint with a clip. After a few drags she begins singing in a husky alto: We gather together to ask…

  • Baby Driver

    Baby Driver

    We first crossed paths with Edgar Wright in the 2004 sleeper hit Shaun of the Dead. The film put Wright on the map, along with actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Two sequels rounded out the “Blood and Ice Cream” trilogy, Hot Fuzz and The World’s End, continuing Wright’s style of paying homage to genre…

  • The Circle

    The Circle

    If you are reading this review on this site, you are already more or less technologically adept. And like most of us you very likely go to the “information superhighway” for entertainment, education, and news. And you probably also use the internet to make the business and file-keeping of your life easier. To do that…

  • Is the Theology of ‘The Shack’ Heretical?

    Is the Theology of ‘The Shack’ Heretical?

    Heresy. Is there any word more feared among Christians? No one who takes their faith seriously wants to be accused of teaching false doctrine and leading others astray. Scripture takes false teaching seriously. Second Timothy 4:3 says, “For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead to suit their…

  • Brief Encounter

    Brief Encounter

    The first film review I ever wrote was of Brief Encounter, for a Wisconsin Lutheran college newspaper. The review is, mercifully, lost to us, and so I find myself writing another, having seen and lived a lot more in the time between. Yet even now, as then, if someone asks what my favorite film is,…

  • Passengers

    Passengers

    One of the dangers of writing about film is the ever-present danger of groupthink. We cinephiles love to consume movie culture which includes films themselves as well as criticism. In fact, criticism can be just as beloved as the art it criticizes. A Roger Ebert review is just as much a work of art as…

  • Ghostbusters / Weiner / Deadpool / Zootopia

    Ghostbusters / Weiner / Deadpool / Zootopia

    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 Ghostbusters, Weiner, Deadpool, and Zootopia.   Ghostbusters   The reaction to…

  • Black Narcissus

    Black Narcissus

    Telling someone about a dream is akin to telling them about a physical ailment — no one actually cares — so I’ll keep it short. I had a dream, during the writing of this review; I was sitting with a friend on the high point of a park, overlooking the landscape. “It would be more…

  • The Light Between Oceans

    The Light Between Oceans

    Lighthouses hold a romantic fascination for most of us. Standing on the edge of civilization, broadcasting a beacon of light to those struggling to get back home, showing the way in the fiercest of storms and warning off ships from dangerous reefs. How many of us have heard our ministers use lighthouses as an analogy…