“To be, or not to be, that is the question...” Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1. I admit it: Cormac McCarthy fascinates me. In the…
R. Greg Grooms
Greg Grooms lives with his wife Mary Jane in Hill House, a large home across the street from the University of Texas in Austin, where they regularly welcome students to meals, to warm hospitality, to ask questions, and to seriously wrestle with the proposition that Jesus is actually Lord of all.
The Conspirator (Robert Redford, 2010)
Baseball, Hotdogs, Apple Pie, and… the Rule of Law? I remember when my email inbox began filling with the messages about “Ground Zero Mosque”:…
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
A Picture in Need of Words Remember the old saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words?” It’s not true. Take Terrence Malick’s latest…
The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)
At the end of their 1979 ode-to-nihilism album entitle The Wall, Pink Floyd --after dismissing most of the things we turn to for comfort—school,…
The King’s Speech (Tom Hooper, 2010)
"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.” [William Shakespeare in Twelfth Night,…
Get Low (Aaron Schneider, 2009)
A Story that Needs to be Told I love good stories. Sitting in a rocking chair on my grandmother’s front porch on a hot…
Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010)
Reality Revisited Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.…
A Serious Man (Coen Brothers, 2009)
Laughing with the Devil The devils laughs because God’s world seems senseless to him; the angel laughs with joy because everything in God’s world…
Avatar: A Review (James Cameron, 2009)
To See or Not to See Avatar: A Movie Review Why, perhaps, you should see Avatar I know all the good reasons not to.…
Doubt (John Patrick Shanley, 2008)
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. --Montaigne How do you feel about people who are certain? Do you find them…