For those sensitive to dizziness, Josh Matthews warns of going to see "First Man" in the theaters: "A movie can be about vertigo, but it should not create vertigo."

Critical reflections on art and culture.
For those sensitive to dizziness, Josh Matthews warns of going to see "First Man" in the theaters: "A movie can be about vertigo, but it should not create vertigo."
The nostalgia-oriented documentary, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”, depicts the unlikely TV personality of Fred Rogers—who created, produced, wrote, and acted in the show—and it answers some of our questions that we, as adults who once watched the show as kids, would now have.
Have you heard about the “salsafication” of American Christianity? That is, while Christianity overall seems to be in a precipitous decline, Latino Protestantism seems to be growing—and even thriving.
First Reformed is set in and around the longest continuously operated church in the United States and focuses attention on its pastor Ernst Toller played masterfully by Ethan Hawke.
The Rider uses—so it appears to me—all untrained actors for all of its parts, as untrained as some of the movie’s horses. It seems like a documentary, and parts of it look like a camera crew showed up to film what was already happening in real life.
Has Disney created anything fresh and interesting in its take over and continuation of the Star Wars story?