?We?re all God?s creatures in the dark.? Jesus? parable of the return of a prodigal son (Luke 15:11ff) is a complex tale of grace and of judgment. In the parable, we see the perspectives of the son, his father, and his brother. In God?s Creatures, directed by Saela...
?God isn?t evil. God is very tired, and when we are tired we make big mistakes.? Carmen, written and directed by Valerie Buhagiar, is a story of both repression and awakening. Some people are silenced, but may have blessings to share if allowed to be heard. When...
?It?s very hard to be right in philosophy.? I was in college when I had my first class in philosophy. We may think philosophy too hard, esoteric, or maybe even a waste of time. But in the documentary Young Plato, filmmakers Neasa N? Chian?in and Declan McGrath, take...
?It?s a whodunnit. You?ve seen one, you?ve seen them all.? It may be true that murder mysteries often follow set formulas, but See How They Run, directed by Tom George, manages to be enough different to entertain us, while being very adamant about how typical it is to...
?If you chose to fight, you may die?but for your cause, and that is a good death.? Medieval from director Petr J?kl, is the story of a Czech hero, Jan ?i?ka. The film opens with voiceover saying ?Blood. Tyranny. Intrigue. Power.? That might make you think of Game of...
?It?s human.? What we see in Mathieu Almaric?s film Hold Me Tight is indeed very human. Of course, sometimes being human means suffering through great pain. Perhaps it can also mean moving past that pain. Clarisse (Vicky Krieps) is on a journey away from her family....
?Death is nothing if the legacy lives on.? Ben Parker?s Burial builds a tale around the ambiguity about the death of Hitler in 1945. Some have used that idea to imagine his escape to Argentina. This film takes a different perspective. It becomes a battle for the...
?Remember when we talked about being alone in the world?? Aly Muritiba?s Private Desert is a story of a man?s search for a way out of his loneliness and isolation. Much of that solitude is self-imposed and the result of being in a very conservative masculine world....
We exist only if we are alive to others. There is more to the truth than facts and history. Stories (even fictional stories) often tell us more about life than all the facts that can be compiled. That is why stories have always been told to describe and define people...