It's Not Just The Trail That's Unique In This Test Of Endurance
Film #11: The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young (2014)
Directors: Annika Ilti...
Film #10: Wadjda (2012)
Director: Haifaa Al Mansour
Wadjda (Waad Mohammed) is all that’s best about being an 11 year old girl. She is funny and feisty, long...
Staring Down Our Unseen McQueen Titles
Steve McQueen. For men of a certain age, and plenty of women too, there is no substitute. Revving onto the Hollywood s...
A Disappointing Installment In An Already Disappointing Series
Well, it’s not good. In a sea of dystopian YA lit. adaptations, Divergent has always been the ru...
Five Sisters, Not Easily Broken
Film #9: Mustang (2015)
Director: Deniz Gamze Urgüven
I write this review on International Women’s Day, and I couldn’t ha...
Tina Fey's New Movie Is Funny But Flawed
Tina Fey does light comedies: Baby Mama, Date Night, Sisters. Given her career to this point, I expected Whisky Tango ...
Documentary Gives A Human Face To Both Victims And Abusers
Film #8: Deliver Us From Evil (2006)
Director: Amy Berg
I write this just a couple of days aft...
Movie Still Plays Well, On And Off The Field
Movie #7: A League of Their Own (1992)
Director: Penny Marshall
This falls into the “I can’t believe you haven...
A Stylish But Morally Ambiguous Romantic Comedy
Film #6: An Education (2009)
Director: Lone Scherfig
After I reviewed 2015’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl ...
You Only Hurt The Ones You Love
Film #5: Your Sister’s Sister (2011)
Director: Lynn Shelton
Jack (Mark Duplass) remains trapped grief and depression a year...
Sharon is an experienced writer with her own blog and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's religion blog. A wife and mother to 5 kids, she in on staff with her church and enjoys running, coffee, and good books. A bit of an activist around certain topics (politics, religion, sexuality, gender), Sharon looks to cinema for the empathy and fun it can provide. “I believe art is a gift from a good Creator. Sometimes Christians are suspicious of film, but I find that thoughtful engagement with movies has been a means of personal and spiritual growth for me. I hope my involvement with Zeke helps others to have a similar experience with film!”
