David Paul Baird is a film critic for The B.C. Catholic, and is assistant professor of theology at Catholic Pacific College.
A slow week at the cinema invites a dip into the archives, and this week I can recommend the early science fiction silent film Metropolis. With its gripping visual style … Continued
Historiographers distinguish between annals, chronicles, and histories. Annals simply list events according to date, and chronicles situate them sequentially in prose, whereas a history arranges events around a perspective upon … Continued
One of those movies that is significantly less enjoyable to watch than to mull over afterwards, The Green Knight is not at all the High Middle Ages action flick the marketing … Continued
In writing this review I am running up against the very best kind of dilemma, the kind which only really arises when I have to speak about the very best … Continued
Like the fizzy soft-drink version of a zeitgeist cocktail, Raya and the Last Dragon offers a colourfully upbeat presentation of contents which are definitely mixed. Now streaming on Disney+, for the … Continued
The most interesting movie this week came out 55 years ago. A masterpiece of spiritual filmmaking that has been described as the War and Peace of Russian cinema, Andrei Rublev … Continued
In the Heights is the latest high-energy stage musical adaptation from Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, and if you really liked its predecessor it’s probably safe to say you’ll like the … Continued
Netflix’s latest computer animated original The Mitchells vs the Machines follows an oddball family on a road trip across a country apocalyptically overrun by evil robots. Loosely a commentary on … Continued
A micro-scale science fiction think piece that punches well above its weight, Netflix’s latest French-language feature, Oxygen, delivers some unexpectedly cathartic claustrophobia. The premise is simple: a woman wakes up in … Continued
Chaos Walking (available by digital rental) is a well made sci-fi young adult yarn with an intriguing premise and strong performances which regrettably cannot reach escape velocity from the downward … Continued