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LUCE

August 11, 2019 By Leave a Comment

LUCE

LUCE is less a film than a political dialectic on race and class in these United States, and a brilliant, exquisitely performed one at that. Told with a deliberate, sometimes maddening ambiguity, it challenges the audience at every turn about where the truth lies, and the limits of familial loyalty. By the end, not every… Read More »

Tagged With: child soldier, classism, high school, lying, racism, stage to screen, truth

THE SHACK

March 3, 2017 By 5 Comments

THE SHACK

THE SHACK, based on the best-selling novel of the same name, is a well-meaning and heartfelt film that dares to tackle a fiendishly tricky question. If God is good and loves us all, why does She allow evil in the world? Couched in parables and riddles, and for all its gentleness of spirit, it arrives… Read More »

Tagged With: faith, God, grief, Holy Spirit, Holy Trinity, miracles, religion, walking on water

THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT

March 16, 2016 By Leave a Comment

THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT

As is the wont with these franchises based on young adult novels, THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT, the third in the series, begins where the last one left off. No flashback montage, no character narration bringing us up to date. Instead, there’s just a quick reminder that Jeanine is dead, and that everyone on screen is… Read More »

Tagged With: Chicago, dystopian future, franchise book to screen, genetic purity, romance, sequel, unexpected power point presentation

Going Beyond BLACK OR WHITE

January 30, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Going Beyond BLACK OR WHITE

Mike Binder has a particular genius for showing people brimming with good intentions, but flawed, stumbling through life without the operating instructions that would help them negotiate the bumps along the way. He has the gift of showing humor and pathos as elements that are not so much disparate, as entwined, manifesting at oddest moments… Read More »

Tagged With: African-Amerian, Andre Holland, Anthony Mackie, based on a true story, biracial, cinema, courtroom, custody battle, drug addiction, film, Gillian Jacobs, Keving Costner, lawyers, Mike Binder, movie narrative, Octavia Spencer, Paula Newsome, race relations

THE HELP

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE HELP, based on the novel of the same name by Kathryn Stockett, gently but firmly peels away they dry rot of racism that festered beneath the gracious, etiquette obsessed façade of southern gentility before the civil rights movement. What is remarkable, and a remarkably difficult line to walk, is that it does so while… Read More »

Tagged With: Allison Janney, books to film, Bryce Dallas Howard, Cicely Tyson., director, domestic servants, Emma Stone, Jackson, Jessica Chastain, Jim Crow, Kathryn Stockett, Mary Steenburgen, Mississippi, Octavia Spencer, race relations, racial discrimination, racial prejudice, Sissy Spacek, Tate Taylor, THE HELP, Viola Davis, writer

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