The Awkwardness and the Ecstasy
Directed by Richard Ayoade (2010)
It was impossible to watch Richard Ayoade’s Submarine without thinking of Wes Ander...
Ronald Miller is a Jerk
DIRECTED BY STEVE RASH/1987
A nerd and a popular kid winding up in love is a tale as old as time (or at least as old as 80s t...
A Short, Sharp, Shocking German Comedy
DIRECTED BY ROBERT SIODMAK/1931STREET DATE: April 6, 2021/KINO LORBER STUDIO CLASSICS
Chronological snobbery i...
A Piercing Rom-Com About a Very Prickly Man's Search for Love
DIRECTED BY SIMON AMSTELL/2018DVD STREET DATE: AUGUST 25, 2020/KINO LORBER
Simon Amste...
The End. Or Is It???
I'm done. I've watched 50 holiday rom-coms since the beginning of November: a few good, a lot bad, almost all cheesy. I have seen mo...
The Banality of Christmas
The sameness really gets to you after a while. A few basic plots are rehashed over and over. The lead actors and actresses look ...
In Praise of Older Leading Ladies
You know one thing I appreciate about Hallmark rom-coms? It's not unusual for the female leads to be in the 30s, 40, or e...
New and Improved! Now includes Hanukkah!
This subtitle is a bit bogus since last year's rom-com-athon included one movie about an interfaith couple and some...
Sharon is an experienced writer with her own blog and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's religion blog. A wife and mother to 5 kids, she in on staff with her church and enjoys running, coffee, and good books. A bit of an activist around certain topics (politics, religion, sexuality, gender), Sharon looks to cinema for the empathy and fun it can provide. “I believe art is a gift from a good Creator. Sometimes Christians are suspicious of film, but I find that thoughtful engagement with movies has been a means of personal and spiritual growth for me. I hope my involvement with Zeke helps others to have a similar experience with film!”
