This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Two Lovers should be a depressing downer of a film, but it’s not. Moody, melancholy and frequently cheerless, the film is not high drama but it’s not trying to be. Drama doesn’t need to reach to great [...]

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Best motion picture of the year
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
WILL WIN: Slumdog Millionaire
SHOULD WIN: Slumdog Millionaire
Blame it on the economy or whatever excuse you want — the unrepentantly joyous and optimistic Slumdog Millionaire has struck a chord with America. The little film that could is snowballing (it has won 20-something critics [...]

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Beliefnet, a website dedicated to multi-faith dialogue, has announced its nominees for Best Spiritual Film, Best Spiritual Performance and Best Spiritual Documentary. Once again, I was honored to be one of the judges. Check out the results here.

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This is an abridged version of a review I wrote for Christianity Today Movies. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Move over Darth Vader. Get out of the way Hannibal Lector. Take your pink slip and go Joker. There’s a new villain in town: the evil bank. Timing is everything, and [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
I have a confession to make. I rarely ever go to horror movies. The reason is quite simple really. They scare me. I’m the guy who has to occasionally pause The Office because the awkward tension [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Confessions of a Shopaholic starts off with promise but unencumbers itself of that burden fairly early on. Like the prototypical addict, the film continually falls off the wagon and repeatedly picks itself up again, before finally deciding [...]

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Tim Gordon (aka “Film Gordon”) and I dropped by BDK’s Movie Show again this weekend to help decide which film is greater: The Godfather or Goodfellas. You can listen to the two-part podcast here and here. Nell Minow (aka “The Movie Mom”) and I joined BDK for a segment focusing on whether or not Coraline [...]

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This is an abridged version of a review I wrote for Christianity Today Movies. To read this review at its original source, click here.
Coraline is a horror film made especially for children. It’s pretty heady stuff for adults too. When the international best-selling book debuted in 2002, the New York Times dubbed it “one of [...]

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This is an abridged version of a review I wrote for Christianity Today Movies. To read this review at its original source, click here.
We’ve all heard it. Some of us have said it: “I’m so glad I’m not out there anymore.” It’s the kind of statement that is made after observing the elaborately convoluted nature [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
If there’s ever been an actor living off expired fame, it’s Steve Martin. It’s been more than a decade — possibly closer to two — since Martin headlined a truly amusing film. Yet he continues to be [...]

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