A bracket of 64 gets argued down to one winner! (sort of)
The Best Sci-Fi Movies of the Past Ten Years
Category: movies
Raising the Bar I have a hard time with religious movies…often. They seem to encourage a black and white thinking that our culture traffics in to our great detriment. Not many treat our tradition with a sophistication I recognize from 40 years around believers. Mostly religious movies seem aimed at adolescents. (That may be true of 90% of movies in theaters now that I think of it…) Christian movies as of late also relish a victim mentality with mostly phony persecutors at hand so we can feel the self-righteous underdogs…
Not Quite “Wild” Enough
I really wanted “Wild” to be an inspiring movie about female empowerment, adventure, and finding yourself against the odds. So I took my wife. Cheryl Strayed’s best seller (from which this is taken) has been that kind of book for many apparently. And this movie kinda made me want to read it.
A Painful, Beautiful, Whiplash
It is indeed, as a poster claims, a “groove,” a “duel” and a “revelation” and certainly one of the best movies I saw from 2014. “Whiplash” is a tense and surprising “overcoming obstacles” story that provides enough twists to keep you eager for more. The world of jazz students in their 20s attending a demanding academy feels claustrophobic; there is little else to occupy the story. But it is this focus and intimacy in the film that makes it work so well. I love it when storytellers know when to stop…