Denis & Margie Haack continue to write at Critique-Letters
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…
Category: Justice
The Growth of Nones
It is an interesting exercise to ask friends what changes going on in our world seem to them to be most significant. The answers…
Thinking about terrorism in Paris
Introduction This is a guest blog by an acquaintance of mine, Thomas K. Johnson, a philosopher and theologian. It’s a piece of rather…
Detective stories (2): achieving justice
I argued in the first installment of this series that one reason we are drawn to detective stories is that we were made to…
Detective stories (3): a dependable hero
The appeal of detective stories includes our need for order when crime has introduced disorder (always a dangerous state), and our yearning for justice…
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…
Film comment: Lincoln (2012), Waste Land (2010), Traitor (2008)
In terms of genre these three films are very different: Lincolnis a historical drama, Waste Land is a documentary, and Traitor is a spy…
Film Comment: Zero Dark Thirty (2012) Pt. 2
We need to talk Like Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow’s 2008 Oscar winning film, Zero Dark Thirty is a compelling war film, appropriately gritty and…
Film Comment: Zero Dark Thirty (2012) Pt. 1
We need to talk I am not a pacifist. I thought I was one for a few years, but my oldest daughter who was…
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…