David Paul Baird is a film critic for The B.C. Catholic, and is assistant professor of theology at Catholic Pacific College.
While the first season of the Netflix original series Stranger Things can be recommended to anyone with a stomach for suspense and horror, the recently released third season will probably sit … Continued
High-concept in setup and deliberately constricted in scope, I Am Mother weaves an assured if subtle kind of fascination through its small-scale yet suggestive coming-of-age drama. Recently released directly to Netflix … Continued
Rather like the ice cream cones on offer at amusement parks, Spider-Man: Far From Home does well what the Marvel movies do best: it delivers a surge of brand-standard superhero … Continued
Great in ambition, albeit modest in achievement, Yesterday sets for itself the apparently impossible task of making an out-of-this-world idea – what things would be like if almost no one … Continued
More often than not, it has been said, when someone sees good in something, he or she is probably right. Conversely, when one can only see what is bad, he … Continued
The film opens on a sequin-bedazzled devil striding boldly down a hallway. In the costume is the popstar Reginald Kenneth Dwight, better known by his stage alias, Elton Hercules John. … Continued
With this issue we introduce weekly film reviews to The B.C. Catholic. Film critic David Baird, assistant professor of theology at Catholic Pacific College, will supplement Alan Charlton’s reviews every … Continued