Mini Reviews of the Contenders for Best Animated and Best Live Action Shorts
Each year, millions of Oscar viewers who are inclined to play along at home pickin...
The Future is Now?
DIRECTED BY SPIKE JONZE/2013
Hailed as one of the singular best, most important, and most thought provoking films of 2013, Her, the unusu...
Good Intentions Don't Hide the Flaws
DIRECTOR: ROTIMI RAINWATER/2013
It’s hard to review a movie like Sugar honestly without feeling like a heel. The direc...
Mass Murderers and Their Hollywood Dreams
DIRECTED BY JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER/2013 (U.S. Theatrical Release)
Joshua Oppenheimer doesn’t mislead in the ope...
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!”
