Jesus Revolution (2023)
During the Hippy Era a charismatic street evangelist transforms a youth & the pastor of a dying church into the spearhead of a Jesus Revolution.
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space (2023)
A survey of the life of Black anthropologist,novelist, & filmmaker Zora Neale Hurston, a leading writer of the Harlem Renaissance, considered by some to be one of the most important women of the 20th century.
TITANIC (1997)
A boy from the lower class & an upper class girl fall in love on the ill-fated maiden cruise of the Titanic.
Living (2022)
In this remake of a Kurosawa classic a London bureaucrat finds meaning for his life when he pushes through a neglected children’s park project.
Sometimes in April 2005)
A mixed group of women, locked into a cellar for safekeeping during the Rwandan Genocide, must find ways to get along despite their hostile feelings.
SOME FURTHER THEOLOGICAL RUMINATIONS ON FOUR 1997 FILMS (Including ROSEWOOD)
(The four films reviewed in the April 1997 issue are Secrets & Lies; Marvin’s Room; Sling Blade; and Rosewood.) “It isn’t good for the man to live alone,” the author of the second Genesis creation story has God declare. And so he relates the story of the creation of the woman, the two forming a …
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I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO (2016)
Raoul Peck uses an unpublished James Baldwin work as his guide & script, enriched by archival clips & interviews, to expose racism in the US.
Armageddon Time (2022)
Paul’s beloved grandfather urges him to speak up for his Black classmate but the boy finds it difficult to stand against entrenched racism.
The School for Good and Evil (2022)
A fairy tale in which two peasant girls are placed in “wrong” schools at School for Good & Evil & face many obstacles as they figure out what to do to escape.
TILL (2022)
The murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in MS in 1955 sparks outrage leading to the C-R Movement, thanks to his determined mother Mamie.