The Gravity of Prayer

I’ve got a bone to pick with Gravity, or with its marketing scheme at the very least. The film, a tense walk with Sandra Bullock through the worst space trip since 1979, presents itself as a sci-fi survivalist nightmare, think Open Water in orbit…

Oscar snubs

When a film is nominated for an Oscar — let alone if it wins — it gets a big financial boost. Some movies are made…

Of Gods and Men

The first images of the monks’ daily lives in Of Gods and Men are peaceful ones: They tend to gardens, pour jars of golden honey,…

The Spurlock Exercises

Morgan Spurlock gained fame and an Oscar nomination by becoming a human guinea pig in the documentary Super Size Me in which he ate nothing…