Essays & Film Reviews
Scarface
June 11, 2013 | Clint Cullum
THE WORLD IS YOURS … proclaims a marquee atop the Goodyear Blimp. The phrase clearly strikes a chord with Tony Montana since he has it inscribed on a giant, Atlas-like globe and sets it as the …
The New Arrested Development
May 30, 2013 | Cinema & New Media Arts
The New Arrested Development Is Dark, Uneven and Frustrating. Can We Have Another?
James Poniewozik – TIME Entertainment
If you marathoned old AD before watching this, turning on the first episode (focused on a falling-out between …
Stepping Back: The Key to Star Wars
May 25, 2013 | Joshua Sikora
“One of the things that I’m doing in these films, to give it a little bit of a reality, is to give the shots a kind of documentary feel, where things float off the shot. I …
Scholars on "The Great Gatsby"
May 19, 2013 | Cinema & New Media Arts
Over at The Millions, five English scholars weigh in on Baz Luhrmann’s new film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, including HBU’s own Doni Wilson:
Doni M. Wilson, Houston Baptist University…
The Forgotten Virtue of Star Trek
May 17, 2013 | Joshua Sikora 3
“Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow — it’s not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that …
Why Star Trek Endures
May 17, 2013 | Chris Hammons
In the realm of science fiction, there is a big divide between Trekkers and Star Wars fans. I consider myself the latter, and always enjoyed the more mystical, quasi-religious elements of Star Wars to the technical …
Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance
May 14, 2013 | Cinema & New Media Arts
Nate Marshall writes on Koyaanisqatsi (1982) over at The Examined Life:
It isn’t a narrative drama, it isn’t a fiction, and it’s only reluctantly categorized as a documentary (because it’s not at all a documentary, …
Grace and Modernism in "Journey to Italy"
May 9, 2013 | Clint Cullum
Take it for what it’s worth, but speaking as a bachelor, if there is a greater movie about marriage than Roberto Rossellini’s Journey to Italy (1954) floating around out there in filmdom, then I haven’t seen …
The Warmth of “Parks & Rec”
May 2, 2013 | Cinema & New Media Arts
Matt Zoller Seitz at Vulture on Parks & Recreation:
More than any network sitcom since The Andy Griffith Show, Parks and Rec catches the spirit of Preston Sturges’s small-town comedies (Hail the Conquering Hero, The Miracle …
John Huston's "Wise Blood"
April 28, 2013 | Clint Cullum
Periodically at my church, St. James the Apostle Episcopal Church, I host an evening in which I show a film and then lead a discussion afterwards focusing on the finer points of film artistry and …
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