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The Tree of Life
Directed by: Terrence Malick
Portrayals of God in the history of film extend from the disastrous to the ...
Max
Directecd by: Boaz Yakin
In one of my favorite films, The Shawshank Redemption, there is a scene in which ...
Secret in Their Eyes
Directed by: Billy Ray
Secret in Their Eyes, is a crime thriller about a murder case in which the killer is ...
Irrational Man
Directed by: Woody Allen
Woody Allen. You gotta love him.
Allen’s movies have been dissected, debated, ...
Inside Out
Directed by: Pete Docter
Latest in the Pixar pantheon of kid’s movies made for adults, Inside Out takes a ...
Their Eyes Were Watching God
By: Zora Neale Hurston (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1937)
Summary:
One of the preeminent writers of ...
Boyhood
IFC Films, 2014; Directed by Richard Linklater; Starring Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, & ...
The Help
Directed by: Tate Taylor
Race has always been a controversial and deeply divisive topic in the movies. Ever ...
Les Misérables
Directed by: Tom Hooper
Very few people I know in the English speaking West know nothing of Les Misérables, ...
To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
By: James Davison Hunter (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)
Summary:
Dr. Hunter is a sociology ...
Capote
United Artists, 2005; Directed by Bennett Miller; Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, and Chris ...
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By: Michelle Alexander (New York: The New Press, 2010)
Summary:
“More African American adults are under ...