Elmer Gantry – 1960 Dear Elmer Gantry, meet me at the revival meeting.  Do not sit in the preacher’s seat and do not sit in …

The Eight Mountains – 2022 We are supposed to dream big when we imagine a 2 ½ hour film based on an award-winning Italian novel …

Dreamin’ Wild – 2022 What do you remember from your teen years? What if the things you forgot are suddenly remembered by everyone else you …

How did you first love the movies?  Did you begin to love them because you had a special moviegoing experience with a person whom you …

What do we do with films that are defiantly strange? Is strangeness justified in art? It seems right to grapple with that question as we …

The images speak and proclaim.  They whisper and they shout.  They would call out to us even in the absence of sound.  These things are …

Columbus is a film enamored with frames and spaces.  Frames and spaces and the people who walk through them.  The ways people talk about those …

Judy Blume really caught my attention when she said in an interview that Kelly Fremon Craig‘s film version of her novel is actually better than …

As a family medicine doctor, I couldn’t quite get out of my own way while watching this film.  I kept fixating on the idea of …