soul food movies

This past week a couple of my recent favourites were released on DVD (REDBELT, SON OF RAMBOW), and two days hence the season's Certified...

Nifty piece at the L.A. Times site, in conjunction with their profile of ex-Mormon-film-maker (you can rearrange those hyphens however you l...

Coming to faith as a teen in Calgary meant I wrestled with the claims of the Mormons. My city, I was told, had more Mormons (as well as cars...

Exciting! The latest of the VIFF press releases came out today, and they've started listing films. And there's a tantalizing litt...

I'm happily (blissfully) working away on the proposal packet for my Soul Food Movies project, which my agent will shop around to publish...

Ah, the dog days of summer, so called because it's the time when Hollywood unleashes nothing but dogs. But there are a few scraps in th...

THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES ("L'homme qui plantait des arbes," 1987, Canada, Frederic Back, story by Jean Giono) When I think th...

GODHEAD REVISITED Daily Telegraph, May 29 2003 Admirers of Evelyn Waugh will have doubts about Hollywood's intention of producing a majo...

The references to JESUS CAMP and THE DAVINCI CODE are off-putting, but the pacifist in me is intrigued, and I'd never be one to let mark...

Graham Peat at Videomatica is involved with bringing this one to Vancouver. Reading the write-ups, I'm eager to see it. BLINDSIGHT July...

I've known Buzz McLaughlin for years: we corresponded and crossed paths at several theatre conferences, I've gotten a lot of value o...

Variety : "The general trend for screen-to-stage adaptations is to make everything larger than life -- broadening the comedy, heighteni...

This from Variety.com ; Danny Glover will reprise his stage role in a bigscreen adaptation of Athol Fugard's apartheid-era play "Ma...

For years, Leslie Halliwell published an annual guide to film, video and DVD, in partnership with John Walker.  When Mr Halliwell died, Walk...