Kenneth Morefield
@kenmorefield.bsky.social
Teacher, film critic, board gamer, Christian, author.
Personal site: http://1morefilmblog.com.
Owner and curator of http://artsandfaith.com
Personal site: http://1morefilmblog.com.
Owner and curator of http://artsandfaith.com
Privileged to get a chance to chat with Rebecca Miller about her excellent series, Mr. Scorsese:
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Rebecca Miller Arts & Faith Interview
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November 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Privileged to get a chance to chat with Rebecca Miller about her excellent series, Mr. Scorsese:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-2D...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-2D...
The Carpenter’s Son: A New Testament Scholar Discusses Controversial Depiction of Jesus 1morefilmblog.com/2025/11/11/t...
Summary of my interview with Dr. Jennifer Bashaw about the new Jesus film, The Carpenter's Son.
Summary of my interview with Dr. Jennifer Bashaw about the new Jesus film, The Carpenter's Son.
The Carpenter's Son: A New Testament Scholar Discusses Controversial Depiction of Jesus - 1More Film Blog
When I first saw the trailer for The Carpenter's Son, the new film loosely based on Apocryphal Gospel of Thomas, I confess my heart sank a little. I am old enough to have lived through the furor surro...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The Carpenter’s Son: A New Testament Scholar Discusses Controversial Depiction of Jesus 1morefilmblog.com/2025/11/11/t...
Summary of my interview with Dr. Jennifer Bashaw about the new Jesus film, The Carpenter's Son.
Summary of my interview with Dr. Jennifer Bashaw about the new Jesus film, The Carpenter's Son.
I was pleased to interview Dr. Jennifer Bashaw, Associate Professor of New Testament and Christian Studies, about the new film, The Carpenter's Son:
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Kenneth Morefield interviews Jennifer Bashaw
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November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I was pleased to interview Dr. Jennifer Bashaw, Associate Professor of New Testament and Christian Studies, about the new film, The Carpenter's Son:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0k8...
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Remember, remember the fifth of November...
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Anarchy At The Movies (Part I)
Perhaps the most unfortunate thing about Culture and Anarchy, Matthew Arnold's series of essays that were later collected together as a book, is the title. No matter how many times I tell students--an...
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November 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Remember, remember the fifth of November...
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I asked James Vanderbilt how he tried to make Nuremberg a thriller when viewers would know the ending. His answer surprised me...
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James Vanderbilt Arts and Faith Interview Nuremberg
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November 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I asked James Vanderbilt how he tried to make Nuremberg a thriller when viewers would know the ending. His answer surprised me...
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Speaking of government waste, the highest paid state employee in Louisiana is set to make $54 million dollars to not coach football.
October 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Speaking of government waste, the highest paid state employee in Louisiana is set to make $54 million dollars to not coach football.
Stitch Head (Hudson, 2025) 1morefilmblog.com/2025/10/23/s...
Are you ready for monsters? Stitch Head is a little gem in a space -- family friendly movies -- that is too often populated with a lot of slick, empty cartoons.
Are you ready for monsters? Stitch Head is a little gem in a space -- family friendly movies -- that is too often populated with a lot of slick, empty cartoons.
Stitch Head (Hudson, 2025) - 1More Film Blog
The first twenty minutes of Stitch Head is just sublime. In terms of art design, story set-up, and characterization, it is on par with the better Pixar films. The titular tyke is the first creation of...
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October 23, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Are you ready for monsters? Stitch Head is a little gem in a space -- family friendly movies -- that is too often populated with a lot of slick, empty cartoons.
Are you ready for monsters? Stitch Head is a little gem in a space -- family friendly movies -- that is too often populated with a lot of slick, empty cartoons.
Happy to get a chance to chat with Justin Lin about his new film, Last Days. (Review coming tonight, but the skinny is that I thought it was very good, able to see the moral complexity in John's story and have respect for diverging opinions):
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Kenneth Morefield interviews Justin Lin
YouTube video by Kenneth R. Morefield
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October 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Happy to get a chance to chat with Justin Lin about his new film, Last Days. (Review coming tonight, but the skinny is that I thought it was very good, able to see the moral complexity in John's story and have respect for diverging opinions):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f27w...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f27w...
Blue Moon (Linklater, 2025) 1morefilmblog.com/2025/10/18/b...
Seems like most liked this, but I found it tedious and exhausting.
Seems like most liked this, but I found it tedious and exhausting.
Blue Moon (Linklater, 2025) - 1More Film Blog
Blue Moon is a film so dour, so bitter, so devoid of joy or hope or spirit, that even those who praise it have trouble articulating why they are doing so. If you hop on over to the critics' reviews on...
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October 19, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Seems like most liked this, but I found it tedious and exhausting.
Seems like most liked this, but I found it tedious and exhausting.
I find it a little strange -- but somehow appropriate to their season -- that while scrolling the Internet today, I have seen four commercials letting me know that tickets are available for UNC's football opener against TCU on September 1.
October 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I find it a little strange -- but somehow appropriate to their season -- that while scrolling the Internet today, I have seen four commercials letting me know that tickets are available for UNC's football opener against TCU on September 1.
Good Fortune (Ansari, 2025) 1morefilmblog.com/2025/10/15/g...
Can't quite stick the landing, but still better than most body-swapping comedies. Keanu for Best Supporting?
Can't quite stick the landing, but still better than most body-swapping comedies. Keanu for Best Supporting?
Good Fortune (Ansari, 2025) - 1More Film Blog
The body-swapping conceit of Good Fortune is tired and overused, but the film's execution of it is so good that it manages to transcend the constraints of recycling a familiar premise. Arj (Aziz Ansar...
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October 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Can't quite stick the landing, but still better than most body-swapping comedies. Keanu for Best Supporting?
Can't quite stick the landing, but still better than most body-swapping comedies. Keanu for Best Supporting?
I heard Frontier was offering its GoWild promotion, and I was considering it. Then I interacted with its web site for five minutes and stopped any consideration. Wonder if they realize just how bad their web site is and how much business a bad interface costs them.
September 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I heard Frontier was offering its GoWild promotion, and I was considering it. Then I interacted with its web site for five minutes and stopped any consideration. Wonder if they realize just how bad their web site is and how much business a bad interface costs them.
"...I or my AI assistant can reach out if you are interested..."
Actual line from a spam text I got. My goal is to hire my own AI assistant to tell his AI assistant to go to hell and then charge him $250 for an hour's "consultation."
Actual line from a spam text I got. My goal is to hire my own AI assistant to tell his AI assistant to go to hell and then charge him $250 for an hour's "consultation."
August 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM
"...I or my AI assistant can reach out if you are interested..."
Actual line from a spam text I got. My goal is to hire my own AI assistant to tell his AI assistant to go to hell and then charge him $250 for an hour's "consultation."
Actual line from a spam text I got. My goal is to hire my own AI assistant to tell his AI assistant to go to hell and then charge him $250 for an hour's "consultation."
Dear Regal theaters, I would happily pay an extra dollar for my Movies Unlimited Pass this summer to be guaranteed I won't have to watch that horrid Roses trailer yet again....
August 1, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Dear Regal theaters, I would happily pay an extra dollar for my Movies Unlimited Pass this summer to be guaranteed I won't have to watch that horrid Roses trailer yet again....
The Arts & Faith Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films for 2025 is now complete. Lots of new write-ups and appreciations. Check it out.
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The Arts & Faith Top 100 -- 2025 List - Arts & Faith
Watch Kenneth Morefield and Noel Manning discuss this list and the Arts & Faith history at Meet Me at the Movies. Listen to Arts & Faith voters Lindsey Dunn, Reed Lackey, and Brian Duignan discuss fil...
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July 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The Arts & Faith Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films for 2025 is now complete. Lots of new write-ups and appreciations. Check it out.
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Hello Blue Sky.
I am an American who won @fifaclubworldcup.bsky.social tickets to see Benefica play Chelsea. Which team should I root for? Thanks.
I am an American who won @fifaclubworldcup.bsky.social tickets to see Benefica play Chelsea. Which team should I root for? Thanks.
June 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Hello Blue Sky.
I am an American who won @fifaclubworldcup.bsky.social tickets to see Benefica play Chelsea. Which team should I root for? Thanks.
I am an American who won @fifaclubworldcup.bsky.social tickets to see Benefica play Chelsea. Which team should I root for? Thanks.
First record album I ever owned, a gift from my cousin, circa 1974.
June 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
First record album I ever owned, a gift from my cousin, circa 1974.
Greta Gerwig has arrived on the 2025 Arts & Face Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films list, and Evalyn Cogswell tells you why voters picked the GG film they did.
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Lady Bird - Arts & Faith
The last time the Arts & Faith community released a Top 100 Spiritually Significant films list, I campaigned hard for Lady Bird’s inclusion. It finished in the bottom ten. This time I shared an essay ...
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June 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Greta Gerwig has arrived on the 2025 Arts & Face Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films list, and Evalyn Cogswell tells you why voters picked the GG film they did.
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For the first time in 21 years and seven list iterations, a Disney film has landed on the Arts & Faith Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films list...
Anton E. Bergstrom welcomes Pinocchio (1940), to the list:
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Anton E. Bergstrom welcomes Pinocchio (1940), to the list:
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Pinocchio (1940) - Arts & Faith
Walt Disney’s Pinocchio is one of the great moral fables that American cinema has gifted the world. I understand that Disney based his studio’s second animated feature on an Italian literary classic—C...
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June 4, 2025 at 9:49 PM
For the first time in 21 years and seven list iterations, a Disney film has landed on the Arts & Faith Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films list...
Anton E. Bergstrom welcomes Pinocchio (1940), to the list:
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Anton E. Bergstrom welcomes Pinocchio (1940), to the list:
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Before 2025, Ben-Hur had never been on an Arts & Faith Top 100 list. Nathanael T. Booth gives it some love in his appreciation for this year's list:
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Ben-Hur (1959) - Arts & Faith
Ben-Hur is a glorious example of epic Hollywood filmmaking—big, bombastic, sometimes creaky and often inspiring. It combines the usual ahistorical Hollywood hokum (“Roman salutes,” slave galleys, stat...
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May 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Before 2025, Ben-Hur had never been on an Arts & Faith Top 100 list. Nathanael T. Booth gives it some love in his appreciation for this year's list:
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Children of Men made it debut appearance on an Arts & Faith Top 100 List by coming in at #20 in 2025. Reed Lackey gives his take here.
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Children of Men - Arts & Faith
Despair is rarely more oppressive or more acute than when we cannot hope for a future. Alfonso Cuarón’s film Children of Men, based on a novel by P.D. James, explores this condition in perhaps its mos...
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May 20, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Children of Men made it debut appearance on an Arts & Faith Top 100 List by coming in at #20 in 2025. Reed Lackey gives his take here.
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It is doubtful that Christians -- or other film viewers -- will ever agree about the spiritual significance and artistic value of Last Temptation. In his write up, Christian Jessup explains why voters at Arts & Faith included it in the 2025 Top 100 list:
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The Last Temptation of Christ - Arts & Faith
Few religious dramas have been met with as much contention and protest as Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ. Based on the 1955 novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, the film’s unorthodox portrayal...
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May 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
It is doubtful that Christians -- or other film viewers -- will ever agree about the spiritual significance and artistic value of Last Temptation. In his write up, Christian Jessup explains why voters at Arts & Faith included it in the 2025 Top 100 list:
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Signs appeared on the very first Arts & Faith Top 100 list in 2004 but was not selected by Arts & Faith voters again until 2025. In her appreciation, Lindsey Dunn discusses why a new generation of film critics are reconsidering the film's spiritual significance.
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Signs - Arts & Faith
Signs came out during a precarious moment of cinematic history in the sometimes-fraught relationship between communities of faith and Hollywood. Following the release of The Last Temptation of Christ,...
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May 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Signs appeared on the very first Arts & Faith Top 100 list in 2004 but was not selected by Arts & Faith voters again until 2025. In her appreciation, Lindsey Dunn discusses why a new generation of film critics are reconsidering the film's spiritual significance.
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artsandfaith.com/signs/
What is your favorite Powell & Pressburger? A Matter of Life and Death makes the Arts & Faith Top 100 for the first time in 2025. Read the appreciation from Mitchell Capps here:
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A Matter of Life and Death - Arts & Faith
How did you imagine heaven as a child? Chances are it’s more true than the theological precision with which you now conceive it; that is, if you’ve managed to retain your belief at all. How might you ...
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May 15, 2025 at 2:29 AM
What is your favorite Powell & Pressburger? A Matter of Life and Death makes the Arts & Faith Top 100 for the first time in 2025. Read the appreciation from Mitchell Capps here:
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artsandfaith.com/a-matter-of-...