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THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE

December 23, 2021 By Leave a Comment

THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE

For all the meticulous detail in THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE about the early life of Tammy Faye Bakker, this biopic about the rise of fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker has an ending that is curiously sparse. It’s not just Tammy Faye’s second marriage to Roe Messner that is erased, though he does… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Christianity, evangelicals, hypocrisy, religion, televangelism

SILENCE

January 6, 2017 By Leave a Comment

SILENCE

Academics are taught to write with a dispassionate yet highly detailed style for their scholarly treatises.  That is the approach that Martin Scorsese has taken with SILENCE, his philosophically dense and immaculately rendered film of Shusaku Endo’s book of the same name. The result is a maddening film more to be admired than enjoyed as… Read More »

Tagged With: 17th century, book to screen, Christian missionaries, conversion, Japan, Jesuits, martydom, prosecution

HACKSAW RIDGE

November 3, 2016 By Leave a Comment

HACKSAW RIDGE

Mel Gibson’s HACKSAW RIDGE begins with a quiet shot looking down (from heaven?) on corpses. They are horrific, with bits missing and gore everywhere.  It’s a moment that will quickly give way to the battle of Okinawa that made them. Bodies ripped by bullets falling to the ground, others engulfed in flames running in panic.… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, basic training, Blue Ridge Mountains, conscientious objector, drill sergeant, first love, Hacksaw Ridge, Okinawa, Pacific Theater, tourniquet, World War II

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

With only five years since the last Spiderman blockbuster, it might have seemed too soon to reboot the franchise, THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, however, puts such worries to rest. The screenwriter is Steve Kloves, who has a keen understanding of character and story as evidence in his scripts for the Harry Potter films. He’s working up… Read More »

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