Elijah Davidson
As the distribution channels continue to flatten, we increasingly have the opportunity to view some of Oscar's other gems. All five of the nominees for Best Documentary Feature are available to stream online, four of them from the same streaming video service (Netflix). They're each worth your time.
Elijah Davidson
The Academy Awards honor five special animated shorts each year. Here are brief reviews of each nominee.
Elijah Davidson
I love messy movies. I think more humanity and beauty comes seeping out of the cracks in a work done by a group of people than is often present in its more perfect parts. The LEGO Movie is full of cracks...
Jessi Knippel
Llweyn Davis is often found apologizing to the people who love and care about him for his behavior and actions to him. He is a broken man who avoids his grief and turns it into frustration for the people who love and care for him. However, over and over again he experiences their mercy and grace...
Elijah Davidson
Is Philomena very critical of the Church? Yes. But I also applaud the film for being honest about how confusing vibrant Christian faith appears from the outside...
Elijah Davidson
Can someone fall in love with a voice? Essentially, that's what Samantha is - an intelligent voice whose intelligence and existence eventually transcends Theodore's. The only things that separate Theodore and Samantha are physicality and mortality...
Elijah Davidson
Nothing I will write here will be better than what Reel Spirituality Co-Director Eugene Suen as already written for our site about The Wolf of Wall Street. The film is indeed an explicit, hilarious, expertly crafted satire about greed, the immorality it leads to, the attractiveness of that
Jessi Knippel
When does life become real? When is that startling moment of clarity where you realize that life as you had been living it previously was not the best use of this one and only life you have? Often this happens when death or the threat of death is knocking down your door and yelling at you. What
Elijah Davidson
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is a big, scenic, exciting, funny, surprising, beautifully scored, parable about being content...
Elijah Davidson
I do truly admire Ron Burgundy's genuine innocence. He expects the best in every circumstance. Yes, that means he is prone to reveling in his rich mahogany and leather-bound books (that he probably hasn't read), but he also expects the best from others and from the world...
