Denis & Margie Haack continue to write at Critique-Letters
Film comment: Child of God (2013)
Child of God (1973) is Cormac McCarthy’s most disturbing book, and the film is hard to watch. The story is of Lester Ballard (played…
Category: Evil
Film Comment: The Founder (2016)
Some books are published not because there is any chance they will become best sellers but because they need to be published. What they…
Detective stories (4): an incorruptible system
The fourth reason detective mysteries are appealing as stories is related to the foundational truth that human existence is meaningless apart from community. We…
Movie comment: Django Unchained (2012)
I went to see this movie without reading any reviews or seeing much about it in the media except that some people (including director…
Movie comment: No Man’s Land (2001)
The year is 1993 and war has come to Bosnia. Two soldiers, a Croat and a Serb, find themselves caught in a trench between…
When the gospel is not the gospel (II)
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped from slavery and went on to advocate for the equality of all human beings. Sadly, while Douglass was leaning against…
Movie comment: Gomorra (2008)
Italian director Matteo Garrone takes us into the lives of a series of people, some involved in the brutal mob Camorra that rules the…