Faith and Film

Faith and Film blog

Torey Lightcap
Forget popcorn! Here's something to chew on from film reviewer and Episcopal priest Torey Lightcap, offering his comments about what we're watching on the big screen.

 

WORTH WATCHING: THE TRAIN
Its roots are in the conventions of the classic genre of the action film, but The Train is also a war movie and an ethical think-piece. And it’s this last element— the moral universe it inhabits —that can make this film so enticing to anyone on a spiritual journey.

THE VILLAGE: A FILM BUILT ON QUESTIONS
In his 2004 film The Village, M. Night Shyamalan uses a 19th century Shaker-like community to pose pointed questions about purity, innocence and the utopian dream.

VIOLENT DUDS
We find these days that people don’t understand what it takes to present violence on film in ways that actually make us think or turn us to the good, and we’re left with the continuation of a grossly disturbing trend.