Kenneth Morefield

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Privileged to get a chance to chat with Rebecca Miller about her excellent series, Mr. Scorsese:

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The Carpenter's Son: A New Testament Scholar Discusses Controversial Depiction of Jesus - 1More Film Blog When I first saw the trailer for The Carpenter's Son, the new film loosely based on Apocryphal Gospel of Thomas, I confess my heart sank a little. I am old enough to have lived through the furor surro...

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Summary of my interview with Dr. Jennifer Bashaw about the new Jesus film, The Carpenter's Son.

YouTube video by Kenneth R. Morefield Kenneth Morefield interviews Jennifer Bashaw

I was pleased to interview Dr. Jennifer Bashaw, Associate Professor of New Testament and Christian Studies, about the new film, The Carpenter's Son:
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Anarchy At The Movies (Part I) Perhaps the most unfortunate thing about Culture and Anarchy, Matthew Arnold's series of essays that were later collected together as a book, is the title. No matter how many times I tell students--an...

Remember, remember the fifth of November...
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I asked James Vanderbilt how he tried to make Nuremberg a thriller when viewers would know the ending. His answer surprised me...
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Speaking of government waste, the highest paid state employee in Louisiana is set to make $54 million dollars to not coach football.

Congrats.

Stitch Head (Hudson, 2025) - 1More Film Blog The first twenty minutes of Stitch Head is just sublime. In terms of art design, story set-up, and characterization, it is on par with the better Pixar films. The titular tyke is the first creation of...

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Are you ready for monsters? Stitch Head is a little gem in a space -- family friendly movies -- that is too often populated with a lot of slick, empty cartoons.

YouTube video by Kenneth R. Morefield Kenneth Morefield interviews Justin Lin

Happy to get a chance to chat with Justin Lin about his new film, Last Days. (Review coming tonight, but the skinny is that I thought it was very good, able to see the moral complexity in John's story and have respect for diverging opinions):
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Blue Moon (Linklater, 2025) - 1More Film Blog Blue Moon is a film so dour, so bitter, so devoid of joy or hope or spirit, that even those who praise it have trouble articulating why they are doing so. If you hop on over to the critics' reviews on...

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Seems like most liked this, but I found it tedious and exhausting.

I find it a little strange -- but somehow appropriate to their season -- that while scrolling the Internet today, I have seen four commercials letting me know that tickets are available for UNC's football opener against TCU on September 1.

Good Fortune (Ansari, 2025) - 1More Film Blog The body-swapping conceit of Good Fortune is tired and overused, but the film's execution of it is so good that it manages to transcend the constraints of recycling a familiar premise. Arj (Aziz Ansar...

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Can't quite stick the landing, but still better than most body-swapping comedies. Keanu for Best Supporting?

If by "people" he means "Peter Thiel," than I probably agree.

I heard Frontier was offering its GoWild promotion, and I was considering it. Then I interacted with its web site for five minutes and stopped any consideration. Wonder if they realize just how bad their web site is and how much business a bad interface costs them.

"...I or my AI assistant can reach out if you are interested..."

Actual line from a spam text I got. My goal is to hire my own AI assistant to tell his AI assistant to go to hell and then charge him $250 for an hour's "consultation."

Suspended Time (Assayas, 2024) - 1More Film Blog Suspended Time is the first narrative set during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in which I recognized elements of my own experience of the time. The World Health Organization reports that just over se...

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Ken Morefield reviews Suspended Time at 1More Film Blog

Dear Regal theaters, I would happily pay an extra dollar for my Movies Unlimited Pass this summer to be guaranteed I won't have to watch that horrid Roses trailer yet again....

The Arts & Faith Top 100 -- 2025 List - Arts & Faith Watch Kenneth Morefield and Noel Manning discuss this list and the Arts & Faith history at Meet Me at the Movies. Listen to Arts & Faith voters Lindsey Dunn, Reed Lackey, and Brian Duignan discuss fil...

The Arts & Faith Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films for 2025 is now complete. Lots of new write-ups and appreciations. Check it out.

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Hello Blue Sky.
I am an American who won @fifaclubworldcup.bsky.social tickets to see Benefica play Chelsea. Which team should I root for? Thanks.

First record album I ever owned, a gift from my cousin, circa 1974.

Lady Bird - Arts & Faith The last time the Arts & Faith community released a Top 100 Spiritually Significant films list, I campaigned hard for Lady Bird’s inclusion. It finished in the bottom ten. This time I shared an essay ...

Greta Gerwig has arrived on the 2025 Arts & Face Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films list, and Evalyn Cogswell tells you why voters picked the GG film they did.

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Pinocchio (1940) - Arts & Faith Walt Disney’s Pinocchio is one of the great moral fables that American cinema has gifted the world. I understand that Disney based his studio’s second animated feature on an Italian literary classic—C...

For the first time in 21 years and seven list iterations, a Disney film has landed on the Arts & Faith Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films list...

Anton E. Bergstrom welcomes Pinocchio (1940), to the list:

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Ben-Hur (1959) - Arts & Faith Ben-Hur is a glorious example of epic Hollywood filmmaking—big, bombastic, sometimes creaky and often inspiring. It combines the usual ahistorical Hollywood hokum (“Roman salutes,” slave galleys, stat...

Before 2025, Ben-Hur had never been on an Arts & Faith Top 100 list. Nathanael T. Booth gives it some love in his appreciation for this year's list:
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Children of Men - Arts & Faith Despair is rarely more oppressive or more acute than when we cannot hope for a future. Alfonso Cuarón’s film Children of Men, based on a novel by P.D. James, explores this condition in perhaps its mos...

Children of Men made it debut appearance on an Arts & Faith Top 100 List by coming in at #20 in 2025. Reed Lackey gives his take here.

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The Last Temptation of Christ - Arts & Faith Few religious dramas have been met with as much contention and protest as Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ. Based on the 1955 novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, the film’s unorthodox portrayal...

It is doubtful that Christians -- or other film viewers -- will ever agree about the spiritual significance and artistic value of Last Temptation. In his write up, Christian Jessup explains why voters at Arts & Faith included it in the 2025 Top 100 list:
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Write your name and your dream on a
Card or a pad or a ticket
Throw it high in the air and
Should our lady pick it
She will change your way of life
For a week or even two
Name me anyone who cares as much as Eva Peron
Rollin' on out, rollin' on out

Signs - Arts & Faith Signs came out during a precarious moment of cinematic history in the sometimes-fraught relationship between communities of faith and Hollywood. Following the release of The Last Temptation of Christ,...

Signs appeared on the very first Arts & Faith Top 100 list in 2004 but was not selected by Arts & Faith voters again until 2025. In her appreciation, Lindsey Dunn discusses why a new generation of film critics are reconsidering the film's spiritual significance.

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A Matter of Life and Death - Arts & Faith How did you imagine heaven as a child? Chances are it’s more true than the theological precision with which you now conceive it; that is, if you’ve managed to retain your belief at all. How might you ...

What is your favorite Powell & Pressburger? A Matter of Life and Death makes the Arts & Faith Top 100 for the first time in 2025. Read the appreciation from Mitchell Capps here:

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Paterson - Arts & Faith “Well, Paterson. How’s life doin’ you?”“Uh, no complaints. You?” What is “the good life”? It’s a question that has occupied humans in every age. To answer it, we create stories and proverbs that warn ...

Neil R. Coulter welcomes Paterson to the 2025 Arts & Faith Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films list:

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A Charlie Brown Christmas - Arts & Faith This commercial dog is not going to ruin my Christmas. A Charlie Brown Christmas premiered on CBS on December 9, 1965, and every year since, it has continued to welcome viewers into twenty-five minute...

Neal R. Coulter explains why voters thought a fifty year-old, made for television special deserved a spot with the masters of world cinema on the 2025 Arts & Faith Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films list.

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