Free State of Jones: Reap What You Sow
Free State of Jones contains good performances and discussion-worthy issues, but director Gary Ross presents them in an piecemeal and uneven manner, ruining what could’ve been something special.
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Year: 2016
The Duel – Spiritual Captivity in the Old West
The idea of captivity is important to the film, although it often seems to be operating in the background. There are physical captives, but there are also emotional spiritual captives. These later forms are perhaps even more dangerous that the physical imprisonment of some.
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Unlocking the Cage – Human Rights for a Chimp?
?Right now the line between human and non-human animals is at an irrational place. If you?re a human you have rights; if you?re not you don?t. We?re saying that?s wrong.?
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Hunt for the Wilderpeople – Foster Family Values
In Ecclesiastes 4:9 we read: ?Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up the other; but woe to one who is alone and falls and does not have another to help.? (NRSV) Hunt for the Wilderpeople is a cinematic version of those words.
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Septembers of Shiraz – Revolutionary Backlash
Revolutions can bring great advancement, but they often bring pain and chaos in their wake. Septembers of Shiraz is the story of an Iranian Jewish family that must cope with the uproar of the Iranian Revolution.
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