“I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something that will lift up his heart. And it seems her heart had not been lifted up by anything of mine she had read. I think that if her heart had been in the right place, it would have been lifted up.” – Flannery O’Connor Emotion,...
2012′s lineup for Best Picture brings to mind sober reflection. As we redefine who we were in America, on the eve of President Obama’s second inaugural, our troubled past still haunts us. Two films deal in very different ways with the subject of slavery. Two films deal with our volatile war with radical Islam. Two films deal with choosing a more optimistic...
