soul food movies

Sep 26 2008: Spike Lee's MIRACLE AT ST ANNA opens

Darrel Manson recc: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (release in Sept.)

I wrote film criticism for Christianity Today Movies for its first few years, and while I had to let that go for time reasons, I still love ...

Nifty Wim Wenders profile in this issue of IMAGE Update ... Wim Wenders IMAGE Journal Artist Of The Month: September 2008 That one of Wim We...

ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES (1938, USA, Michael Curtiz, John Wexley / Warren Duff screenplay) Let's go and say a prayer for a boy who couldn...

ANGELS OF THE STREETS ("Les Anges du péché" "Angels of Sin" 1943, France, Robert Bresson, screenplay with Jean Giradoux ...

ANGELA (1995, USA, Rebecca Miller) Debut full-length film by Arthur's girl concerns ten- and six-year-old sisters who turn to strange hy...

ANGEL AND THE BADMAN (1947, USA, James Edward Grant) Badman is John Wayne, angel a fetching Quaker woman who nurses the gunslinger to health...

IL MIRACOLO ("The Miracle" 1948, Italy, Roberto Rossellini) From a pair of short Rossellini films called L'AMORE, the first (L...

AMEN. ("Der Stellvertreter" 2002, France/Germany/Romania, Costa-Gavras, screenplay with Jean-Claude Grumberg, from the Rolf Hochhu...

ALL THAT JAZZ (1979, USA, Bob Fosse, screenplay with Robert Alan Aurthur) More-or-less autobiography, the sordid life and transcendent death...

ALICE (1990, USA, Woody Allen) Very Fifth Avenue, very Catholic wife of workaholic is smitten with bad back, bad conscience when tempted wit...

ADORATION (2008, Canada, Atom Egoyan) Winner of the Ecumenical Jury Prize at Cannes (for movies that celebrate spiritual values), the story ...

Kim Voynar (at Cinematical ) raves Danny Boyle's latest, slated to open at the end of November.. . Slumdog Millionaire Fans of director ...

A friend just wrote me, looking for a movie prescription to help fend off her end-of-summer malaise. What would I recommend?... Tomorrow ni...

Back in June, Warner Home Video announced the October 14 release of A NEW WORLD Extended Cut The New World Extended Cut: Director Terre...

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...