Tag: Suffering

  • 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…

  • Avengers: Endgame

    Avengers: Endgame

    Eleven years ago, Iron Man changed comic book movies forever. Not only was the movie great, it was the beginning of a journey through the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with each film offering something new while also being connected to one large story. Avengers: Endgame is the culmination of that 22-film saga. From this point forward,…

  • Avengers: Infinity War

    Avengers: Infinity War

    In 2008, Marvel Studios took the gamble of the century. They released Iron Man, featuring a virtually unknown character outside the comic book world and starring an actor with a checkered past and little box office success in Robert Downey Jr. Raising the stakes even higher, prior to the release of Iron Man, Marvel committed…

  • Mute

    Mute

    When I stumbled across Mute on Netflix, I was fairly excited. Duncan Jones, the man who brought us Moon and Source Code, directed it. Surely it would be an excellent sci-fi noir piece…Right? Silence vs. Loudness Mute centers around an Amish man named Leo (Alexander Skarsgård) who had a terrible accident when he was young…

  • Tower

    Tower

    Every once in a while a documentary comes along that unexpectedly stops you in your tracks. Tower is one of those. The film tells the story of the worst U.S. mass shooting by a single person in the 20th century, and the very first episode to take place at a school. It occurred on a…

  • 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…

  • Split

    Split

    Ever since Newsweek dubbed him “The Next Spielberg” in July 2002, M. Night Shyamalan has had a rough go in Hollywood. That’s not to say he’s hurting for monetary success: An IMDB list in 2014 — following his critically maligned After Earth — listed Shyamalan as one of 30 most profitable filmmakers currently alive, above…

  • Terrence Malick and the Three Greatest Christian Movies Ever Made

    Terrence Malick and the Three Greatest Christian Movies Ever Made

    What if I told you that the three most recent movies from Terrence Malick are the greatest Christian movies ever made? Well, first, you’d probably ask me, “Who is Terrence Malick?” And even if you know who Malick is, your next thought would probably be along the lines of: “Are you serious!??” Granted, Malick films…

  • Queen of Katwe

    Queen of Katwe

    Disney’s Queen of Katwe remains within the tradition of unintentional Christian filmmaking that prefers subtle nuances and unspoken demonstrations of conviction over tired clichés, recycled tropes, wooden characters, and soap-boxy platitudes positing overly simplistic answers to the complexities of life lived in a fallen world. In veteran director Mira Nair’s vision, we see strands of…