Dumbo is the latest Disney animated classic to be remade as a live action film. The original, a 64-minute feature film from 1941, can be visually identified by most people, but I wonder how many have actually seen it in its brief entirety. Now the story comes back to...
I will admit up front that I approach nearly all popular media attempts to deal with biblical material with a chip on my shoulder. I think a scholarly and critical approach is essential to understanding the biblical writers and hearing the proclamation of God?s...
The filmmakers and actors from Disney?s upcoming live action Dumbo recently met with the press in a press conference format. This report is some gleanings from the two press conferences. The first included Grae Drake (Moderator), Derek Frey (Producer). Katterli...
What is a worthy sacrifice to make for one?s gods? Does that sound like a basis for a action thriller? It turns out to be a very important part of Hotel Mumbai, the feature debut of director Anthony Maras. Based on the 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai that created...
There is an old gospel song, ?This world is not my home, I?m just a-passing through?. A bit of that sense of temporariness is what we find in Transit from German director Christian Penzold. There are various aspects of this film that may leave us a bit off-balance,...
?There is nothing more dangerous for a warrior than emotion.? (Yon-Rogg) A new superhero comes to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Captain Marvel brings us the MCU?s first woman superhero, a soldier in the midst of an intergalactic war who ends up on earth and becomes...
Most people know of Joseph Pulitzer because of the Pulitzer Prizes awarded each year. They may associate him with yellow journalism. But there is much more to this man as we discover in Joseph Pulitzer: The Voice of the People, opening in theaters and coming later to...
In the port city of Buenaventura, Columbia, a young man and his friends struggle to escape their poverty. Their weapon in this war is dance.? In We Are the Heat, Harvey and his crew battle corruption, drug traffickers, and other dance crews as they try to find not...
I recently had the chance to take part in a roundtable interview with the directors of Birds of Passage, Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra. The film tells the story of a clan of indigenous people in Columbia who become involved with the drug trade, bringing ruin to...