Lost in space, a bubble drifting And I’m pretending to care When I’m not even there Gone, but I don’t know where ~Aimee Mann,…
Denis Haack
Denis is the author of The Rest of Success: What the World Didn’t Tell You About Having It All and has written articles for such journals as Reformation & Revival Journal, Eternity, Covenant, and World. He holds a Master of Arts in Theological Studies degree from Covenant Seminary in St. Louis.
I [HEART] Huckabees (David O. Russell, 2004)
In case you were wondering, the title of this movie is pronounced, “I [HEART] Huckabees.” If that raises the question, “What does that mean?”…
Hotel Rwanda (Terry George, 2004)
Tension between Hutus and Tutsis can be traced all the way back to the 14 th century. That was when Tutsis migrated into Hutu…
Garden State (Zach Braff, 2004)
You know that point in your life when you realize the house you grew up in isn’t really your home anymore? The idea of…
Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen, 1989)
Cliff Stern (Woody Allen) is an idealist filmmaker… until he’s offered a lucrative job shooting a flattering profile of a pompous TV producer (Alan…
Contact (Robert Zemeckis, 1997)
Word is out, in some circles, that Christians should avoid this film like the plague. “The movie is so blatant and one-sided in its…
Chocolat (Lasse Hallström, 2000)
Chocolat is a charming movie, a whimsical fairy tale that takes place “once upon a time” in an isolated and far-off French village. It…
Chicago (Rob Marshall, 2002)
Judged by traditional values, criminals are objects of reproach and scorn. But judged by the values of entertainment, which is how the media now…
Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1989), Three Colors Trilogy: Blue (1993), White (1994), Red (1994) (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Sometimes if the film is good enough and its story told well, a character or image will lodge in the imagination like a splinter,…
Foreign Bodies (Hwee Hwee Tan, 1997)
I first heard of Foreign Bodies, a novel by a young Oxford educated Singaporean writer now living in New York, in a review in…