A Kanye West Film.
Eye-dropper satire on an avant-garde renovation of a Catholic parish's annual open-air Passion play. It promises some fun (a dubbing session for a porn film, a TV ad for cologne), but the play itself, taken very seriously and at considerable length, puts the kibosh on that (notwithstanding a couple of …
In the 1970s, young Greg Laurie (Joel Courtney) is searching for all the right things in all the wrong places: until he meets Lonnie Frisbee (Jonathan Roumie), a charismatic hippie-street-preacher. Together with Pastor Chuck Smith (Kelsey Grammer), they open the doors of Smith’s languishing church to an unexpected revival of …
In the 1970s, young Greg Laurie (Joel Courtney) is searching for all the right things in all the wrong places: until he meets Lonnie Frisbee (Jonathan Roumie), a charismatic hippie-street-preacher. Together with Pastor Chuck Smith (Kelsey Grammer), they open the doors of Smith’s languishing church to an unexpected revival of …
Spiritual and geographical journey of a junkie nicknamed Fuckhead, in the early 1970s (more progress geographically, perhaps, than spiritually). The incidents, lifted from a semi-autobiographical collection of short stories by Denis Johnson, have something of the talkative drug addict's boring desire to astonish and proneness to embellish. But the one …
The Catholic Church teaches that the Eucharist is the most profound means by which God shares Himself with humanity. However, a 2019 Pew Research Study unveiled a concerning reality: only one-third of practicing U.S. Catholics believe in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
It stands to reason that if Alain Resnais were to go into science fiction, he would go by time machine. For this purpose, the vehicle he has devised, with perfect deadpan sobriety, looks a good deal like Cinderella's magic pumpkin. It enables the passive guinea-pig hero to relive, in impartially …
Gracefully paced romantic comedy about a couple of wayfaring strangers who meet-cute in a French airport shut down by an air-controllers' strike. It is good to see Juliette Binoche's relentless intensity turned against her for the purposes of comedy -- in the role of a high-strung beautician for whom her …
The family of the future, out of an animated TV series of the Sixties, drawn in a style of the Fifties -- a particularly bad style, too, like that of floor-wax and toothpaste commercials. (Some clashing computer graphics, to inject a little contemporariness, only aggravate the queasiness.) Not so much …
How far would you go to protect the family dairy business? Probably not as far as these people. Stars Toni Servillo, Remo Girone, and Sarah Felberbaum.
Some movies lend themselves less to sequels than others, and Romancing the Stone, a real-life romance visited upon a mousy romancer, would appear to be one of the "some." Unaccountably, the heroine's earlier adventure in South America has left her with a weakened belief in romance. Discontented with her current …
The issue is the opening of a Carmelite convent in Auschwitz — Catholic nuns and symbols in "the biggest Jewish cemetery in the world." The nuns see it as honoring Edith Stein, a Jewish convert who became a Carmelite and died in the camp. The Polish Pope John Paul II …
Bette Davis's broad-stroke portrait of a carefully named Southern belle: spoiled, destructive, finally penitent, and stereotyped all down the line. The manipulation of light and dark, by director William Wyler and cameraman Ernest Haller, looks a lot more skilled, inspired, high-spirited, than the assembly-line plot construction. With George Brent, Henry …