Faith and Film: The Best Pictures of the Year

I just finished listening to the Kindlings on Film and Faith and I thought it was one of the best yet.

Allison's insistence on viewing everything through a feminist lens and her somewhat divergent opinion really added a subtle, but pleasing sense of tension. I thought her take on James Cameron was narrower than I would have hoped. She seemed to convey that all his films lacked any quantifiable substance. Personally, I love his escapist sci-fi operas.

Peter's views and insights, as always, helped raise the conversation by adding back-story to particular subjects and individuals. On his blog he has weekly box-office breakdowns comparing Canada to the US. Not something I'd considered in the years I've been following the weekly box office take.

Murray too brought a strong sense of film-making knowledge into the conversation. I tend to agree with his take on AVATAR. Huge, cliche, but also good business; technically deserving of appreciation.

Overall the discussion was intriguing, divergent in opinions, and heartily worthwhile the listen.

Cheers,
-Adam Schellenberg
adamschellenberg@gmail.com

There are no rooms no more for guessing because the winners are already known. ABC had the Oscars this year, and all I had to say about it was…meh. I've thought the Academy Awards were kind of a joke for a while (Pulp Fiction loses to Forrest Gump? That's a sick joke) and I haven't seen anything in the last few years to prove me wrong. I wouldn't waste getting payday loans to go the event – if members of the public can even go. (I'm not sure on that one.) I wasn't surprised that Tarantino got snubbed, again, though Christoph Waltz DID win Best Supporting Actor, which he thoroughly deserved.