There are two ways to approach Jon Avnet’s Three Christs, a drama based on the infamous 1959-1961 psychological study at Ypsilanti State Hospital where three paranoid schizophrenics who believed themselves to be Jesus Christ were made to live together. The…
Them That Follow Movie Review: Faith based film aims to spark conversation
Entrenched in a rural Pentecostal community of Appalachian snake handlers who risk their lives in order to test their devotion to God (led by a reliably skeezy Walton Goggins), a pastor’s daughter (Alice Engler of Ginger & Rosa and Beautiful…
Tomb Raider Movie Review: Alicia Vikander carries it as far as she can
In adapting Square Enix’s revisionist take on the iconic video game character Lara Croft, director Roar Uthaug finds himself in a strange position. He carries an obvious love for the material, painstakingly recapturing the harrowing jungle adventure that rips the…
Movie Review: ‘Diablo’
I’ll give Lawrence Roeck credit, at least he didn’t reveal the twist to his new film Diablo in its last few minutes. Usually when a major twist is saved until the very end of a film, it comes across as…
Movie Review: ‘The Hateful Eight’
Quentin Tarantino, the only contemporary director of a blaxploitation film, a samurai movie and a Nazi revenge fantasy, baptizes his audiences in blood, rebirthing them through vengeance. But what’s most fascinating about Tarantino’s latest three films – Inglorious Bastards, Django…
TV Review: Justified 6×01 – “Fate’s Right Hand”
I have been both looking forward to and dreading this final season of the wildly entertaining FX TV show Justified. Though I just recently began watching the show, which chronicles the life of a US Marshal named Raylan Givens and…