soul food movies

Killing to protect the Bible is hardly a new idea. Or a Biblical one. It's THE ROAD with a comic book sensibility and confused religious...

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Another edition of the Arts & Faith list of 100 spiritually significant films is gearing up. We're in the nominating phase until Ja...

I just ordered me some movies! Since seeing glimpses of PAISAN in Martin Scorsese's documentary MY VOYAGE TO ITALY (available at Video...

"Jack Goes Boating is Phillip Seymour Hoffman's directorial debut adapted to the screen by Bob Glaudini from his play. It's a f...

Surfeit of tasty Soul Food in cinemas just now, and some other just plain fine films. (Not that it isn't all food for the soul, one way ...

DAY OF WRATH (“Vredens dag” 1943, Denmark, Dreyer) Day of Wrath, for pity take My sins away from Satan’s grasp And bear my soul to Heaven at...

THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951, USA, Robert Wise, screenplay Edmund H. North, story Harry Bates) It is no concern of ours how you run y...

"Christopher Plummer, at the crest of a long career, gives an impassioned portrait of the artist as an old man - Leo Tolstoy in his eig...

Mark Olsen on the Toronto International Film Festival Film Comment, November-December 2009 "Nicolas Winding Refn's VALHALLA RISING ...

"Bruno Dumont's HADEWIJCH was turned down by Cannes and Venice. Drawing inspiration from the life and writings of the 13th-century ...

Probably the last update of the Movie City News year-end tally , compiling 200 critics' "Best Of 2009" lists, posted Jan 13 20...

"What did you think of Snowwhite and the vii Dwarfs ? . . . Leaving out the tiresome question of whether it is suitable for children (w...

Oh my gosh! I can't believe I fell asleep at the switch on this one. Though I'm sure I'm not the only person taken by surprise w...

Three weeks until THE PASSION PROJECT opens at Pacific Theatre (Wed Jan 27), and I want to make sure nobody misses an amazing PuSH Festival...

The Internet Movie Database has just put up its "Top Rated Films of the 2000s" list, based on the ratings for individual films com...

from Waking Life (2001, Richard Linklater) thanks, Rob

Wow. Amazing film series at Pacific Cinematheque, already in progress. Judging from the many films here that are among my all-time favourite...