Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet (2015)
Based on my understanding from reading about Kahlil Gibran, the author of the 1923 book The Prophet, the film’s depiction of Mustafa is consistent with Gibran’s drawing from his Catholic upbringing as well as...
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The Churchmen — Season 1, Episode 1 Recap
The series chronicles five candidates as they arrive at Paris’s Capuchin Seminary. Despite being a tad overcrowded and a bit formulaic, the opening episode shows promise. The pilot episode has to introduce each of...
Noble (Bradley, 2014)
Did I want a biopic that was critical of its heroine? Of course not. But I wanted one where she was presented as a fully realized human being. The Christina Noble represented in this...
Beyond the Mask (Burns, 2015) – 1morefilmblog review
From the 1morefilmblog while the film’s Christian content was both overt and unabashed, it was actually embedded into a story rather than tacked on to it. William Reynolds (Andrew Cheney) is an eighteenth-century corporate spy/assassin...
Snowpiercer vs. The Giver (1More Film Blog)
Kenneth R. Morefield compares the two recent movies. The more heavily the ideological deck is stacked in a film, the more the viewer is forced into a passive role. Rather than being invited to...
1morefilmblog: Cannibal
Cannibal (★) is a love story–at least it purports to be–between a mild-mannered tailor and the woman he can’t quite bring himself to murder. Before it comes to its inevitable (and overdue) conclusion, he...