David Paul Baird is a film critic for The B.C. Catholic, and is assistant professor of theology at Catholic Pacific College.
Weathering with You is director Makoto Shinkai’s follow up to the 2016 smash hit Your Name, to date the highest grossing anime film in history. With expectations understandably (and probably unreasonably) … Continued
The 10-part Netflix drama The Messiah centres on a beguiling religious figure in the contemporary Middle East who claims to speak for God and appears to work miracles. With the … Continued
This grey weather is a good time to test out a different sort of cinema Why not start off this new calendar year with a hidden gem from last year? … Continued
It’s that time of year again. Not only to celebrate Christmas, but to drag out and start grinding again those old battleaxes about its true meaning. Should Christians say “Merry … Continued
See Alan Charlton’s review of The Two Popes: Fictionalized tale of two Popes hard not to like. The Two Popes is a film that’s difficult to discuss with equanimity because it … Continued
A broody, restrained, and verbally-attentive kind of beautiful, The King’s adaptation of Henry V wraps up the plot of Shakespeare’s play in an aesthetic blend of Braveheart and The Crown. Considered … Continued
Think for a second about a world in which the truth is utterly irrelevant. If somebody wants something another person has, he or she merely makes the requisite noises, adopts … Continued
Somehow simultaneously light-hearted, heavy-handed, and sporadically obscene, The Laundromat promises a kind of ironic and worldly-wise lesson in the basic principles of international money laundering. What it delivers, however, is of … Continued
It is difficult to decide which of two seemingly opposite things to say first. That Joker is a very good, perhaps even great, film. Or that there is very little, … Continued
Like a lot of depressing movies, Ad Astra’s strong dose of melancholia may well aim at indirectly endorsing a reinvigorated engagement with life. Having administered its nihilistic fix, the film … Continued