Unanimously Overturning Fraud at the Box Office
The greatest boon to American political films came, oh, some four score and eight years ago, when movie studios...
Compelling Documentary on America's Past (and Present) Racial Injustice
#33: 13th (2016)
Director: Ava Duvernay
I am a white woman living near St. Louis;...
Studio-Era Hollywood's Still-Beguiling Screen Sphinx
“There just aren't any faces like that any more. Well, maybe one – Garbo.”
From evocative titles for sile...
A Compassionate Glimpse at Coming of Age on the Autism Spectrum
#32: How to Dance in Ohio (2015)
Director: Alexandra Shiva
Street Date: September 27, 2106...
SPECIAL EFFECTS WINNER IS A BATTLE OF WITS AT SEA
DIRECTED BY DICK POWELL/1957
STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 20, 2016/KINO LORBER STUDIO CLASSICS
Denys Rayner wa...
Fritz Lang's Silent Evil Genius in High Definition
DIRECTED BY FRITZ LANG/1922
STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 13, 2016/KINO LORBER STUDIO CLASSICS
Language: Si...
A Sly Documentary About a Medical Outsider
#31: Nuts! (2016)
Director: Penny Lane
Nuts! is being screened as part of the Webster University Film Series
...
Connery, Sean Connery.
How else to begin a round-up of the famed Irish/Scotsman's films on this, the month of his birth? Perhaps it's what's expected, and fo...
A Grim, Amoral Account of the Greatest Manhunt in American History
#30: Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
It’s been 15 years since 9/11. A...
Meryl Streep Is Perfectly Awful as a Singer with Delusions of Talent
Director: Stephen Frears/2016
What a strange story this is, and all the stranger for b...
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!”
