soul food movies

"You need to have the exdpertise and the guidance of someone else. You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity an...

USHPIZIN (2004, Israel, Giddi Dar, Shuli Rand screenplay) I didn't prepare for guests. What can I do? Do we run the world? God sent gues...

THE SPITFIRE GRILL (1996, USA, screenplay and direction by Lee David Zlotoff) You suppose if a wound goes so deep, the healing of it migh...

THE DEATH OF MR LAZARESCU ("Moartea domnului Lazarescu," 2005, Romania, written and directed by Cristi Puiu) It's a problem of...

Next to SON OF MAN, my top movie of 2006. Bowled over. I'm thrilled that it's caught people's attention, continues on at arthous...

When the end-of-year windfall of watchable movies begins, I start keeping track of people's year-end lists to come up with ideas for wha...

Mar 27 update: new review up at CT Movies Nice piece at NY Times . This was right next to SON OF MAN at the top of my wish-list for VIFF 06,...

A friend of mine over at the Arts & Faith film conversation posted some interesting thoughts that tied in with my own movie-going experi...

Digging around to see if I'd written a review of P.D. James' novel Children Of Men back when I used to write regularly for Christia...

The New Year has come, the Best Of lists continue, and their abundance maketh the movie-goer's heart glad. A particularly bountiful wind...

1 United 93 917.5 2 Queen, The 887 3 Departed, The 867 4 Letters From Iwo Jima 571 5 Pan's Labyrinth 569.5 6 Borat 495.5 7 Little Miss S...

Updated Dec 31 I think of it as the YIFF - the Year-End International Film Festival. Opens in November sometime, closes around Oscar time, w...

I saw this one last week, and I'm still figuring out what I think of it. The utterly linear, even primal storyline doesn't provide l...

BIG NIGHT (1996, USA, Stanley Tucci & Campbell Scott, wr Tucci & Joseph Tropiano) To eat good food is to be close to God. To have th...

Verhoeven Talks Jesus Exclusive: On his religious project 01 December 2006 http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=20061 Empire Movie...

In my files I have a photocopy of material from the Spring '94 Jesus Seminar, apparently notes by filmmaker Paul Verhoeven on a Jesus sc...