By Tim Winterstein - "And you may find yourself/Living in a shotgun shack And you may find yourself/In another part of the world And you may find yourself/Behind the wheel of a large automobile And you may find yourself in a beautiful house/With a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself, well/How did I get … Continue reading Chasing Life’s Lottery
By Tim Winterstein - If you have never read (or heard of) Olov Hartman's Holy Masquerade, it's a book that you should buy and read now. (I like to read it during Lent because it takes place over the Sundays until Easter.) I thought of Holy Masquerade as I watched The Other Side of Sunday … Continue reading Between God and the Pious
By Tim Winterstein - There are not many movies that depict the Christian life with any sort of reality or substance. Far more often, movies resort to caricatures or stereotypes. And this is true, unfortunately, whether the filmmaker is a Christian or not. The only thing that changes is whether the caricature is a positive … Continue reading Bearing Burdens
By Tim Winterstein - [SPOILERS] Velvet Buzzsaw (streaming on Netflix) is the latest example of how Netflix is changing the film industry. It used to be (and still is, for the most part) that people like me had to wait months to see a film that people at major film festivals were talking about. But … Continue reading Death is Art
By Tim Winterstein - Puns abound in the 2015 documentary Finders Keepers (streaming on Netflix). The title is my favorite, though it is first among equals. It had been on my list to watch for a while, so I finally got around to it. I'm probably not putting it number one among my favorite documentaries, … Continue reading Without a Leg to Stand On
By Tim Winterstein - There's nothing quite as uncomfortable as watching someone who does awkward well. In comedy, consider both Steve Carell's Michael Scott and Ricky Gervais' David Brent on both the American and English versions of The Office. But Jim Cummings could teach a master class on dramatic and (within the world of the … Continue reading Everything Falls Apart
By Tim Winterstein - I pretty much knew what I was going to get when I turned on Beautiful Boy. I didn't know if it would be good as a film or not (although I was looking forward to seeing Steve Carell in a serious role—though sometimes I had trouble not letting his The Office … Continue reading The Beautiful and the Broken
