Dogma

Kevin Smith manages to makes a film that both pokes fun at the Catholic Church and upholds the faith.

"...heavenly doors of our cineplexes with his new movie, Dogma, a film that both pokes fun at the Catholic..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Data Before Dogma

"...must support candidates and policies that prioritize data before dogma. The new "crisis pregnancy centers" ordinance is a victory..."

April 13, 2010 Postmarks

Mifune

"...is also recognized as the third product of the Dogma 95 Collective. What does that mean? It means that,..."

April 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Celebration

"...in this manner was ordained by his participation in Dogma 95, the manifesto of a film movement he helped..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mr. Fish: Cartooning From the Deep End

Documentary explores the dying art of controversial editorial cartoons

"...you could reasonably call Fish anti-war, anti-corporate, anti-capitalist, anti-religious dogma, and anti-systems. All of the systems...."

Aug. 31, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

J. Edgar

The man who played Dirty Harry directs Leonardo DiCaprio as America's top cop, J. Edgar Hoover.

"...man was also undone by his bigotry, secrecy, narrow-minded dogma, and unbridled power to ruin lives. Eastwood gives us..."

Nov. 11, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Adam's Apples

Pitting a skinhead against a priest, this Danish comedy, like most of that country's dramas, is dark, dark, dark.

"...recognizable to American audiences as the scriptwriter of such Dogma 95 classics as Mifune, Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself,..."

June 1, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India

"...intractable political forces, a love story that pricks the dogma of racial barriers, and a sports drama that effectively..."

May 24, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Angela's Ashes

"...when it irreverently recounts the twisted logic of Catholic dogma, as viewed from the eyes of a young boy...."

Jan. 14, 2000 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Boys Don't Cry

Without resorting to dogma, ideological tracts, or cautionary tales, Boys Don't Cry evocatively tells the true story of a young Nebraska woman who changed her sexual identity and transformed herself (sans surgery) into a young man. Swank won her first Oscar for this role.

"...Boys Don't Cry accomplishes all this without resorting to dogma, ideological tracts, or cautionary tales. It tells a gripping..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Superstar

"...is all over a movie like Kevin Smith's soon-to-be-released Dogma (their protests provide good copy for the nightly news),..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Olympia

"...their own organic sense of story rather than screenwriting-workshop dogma. Olympia isn't the kind of movie everyone will love...."

Nov. 13, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Siege

"...has crafted a fairly tight actioner here. Remove the dogma and the occasional screed, and what you have is..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Slaves to the Underground

"...this movie is its snapshot documentation of how absolutist, dogma-driven movements ultimately diffuse into the confusingly protean reality of..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Panama Deception

"...many of the unknown “experts” who dispute the government dogma are presented with the identifying tag of “journalist/author” and..."

Oct. 9, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Man and Myth

Comic-book artist Dean Haspiel set to attend Staple! Independent Media Expo

"...of honor. The engaging Haspiel – creator of Billy Dogma, illustrator of Harvey Pekar's The Quitter, and collaborator with..."

March 2, 2007 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Fake Fast Food Restaurateur (and Filmmaker) Kevin Smith Welcomes Austin to Mooby's

Silent Bob talks fan connection, veganism, and Mooby's origins

"...franchise that’s been featured in the Kevin Smith movies Dogma, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Clerks II, and..."

May 11, 2021 Food Post by Kevin Curtin

1999 Film Critics Poll

"...Dogma, Rushmore, Election, Cookie's Fortune, Run Lola Run..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Screens Feature

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Evolution is only scientific "dogma" in the same way that geometry is mathematical "dogma."..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Column

Push for Intelligent Design From Christian Right

"...seem unclear how science works. Evolution is only scientific "dogma" in the same way that geometry is mathematical "dogma."..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Postmarks

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Our readers talk back.

"...Our minds are still controlled by dogma. Science just stole the baton from the religious establishment...."

Aug. 8, 2003 Column

Mr. Smith Goes to Austin

Writer / director Kevin Smith discusses his new film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

"...the religious right and a deluge of hate mail: Dogma, his fallen angels road pic/satire/labor of love about the..."

Aug. 10, 2001 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Starving the Beast

Doc exposes big money on campus

"...those who would push a particular political agenda or dogma. It’s an ongoing argument that’s happening across the country..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Timbuktu

Jihad in Mali goes from comic to horrific in the blink of an eye.

"...world who bear witness to the sting of persecutory dogma. Timbuktu, an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film,..."

March 6, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hunt

Mads Mikkelsen stars in this Danish film by Thomas Vinterberg as a man whose enitre life is undone by a little girl's lie.

"...friend and Lucas’ son manage to sidestep the prevailing dogma. A coda packs an additional wallop, just when you..."

July 26, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lege Lines: The Score

How the 83rd did on water infrastructure, the budget, education, the environment, and transportation

"...follow these continuing stories. – Michael King Budget: Fake Dogma, Real Numbers..."

June 14, 2013 News Feature by Brandon Watson

Cop Out

Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan star in Kevin Smith's painfully unfunny throwback to the Eighties buddy-cop movies.

"...the profane and powerfully human comedy Chasing Amy and Dogma. It's seemingly not even the Kevin Smith who directed..."

March 5, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Battle for Terra

An animated tale of a peace-loving race of creatures known as Terrians, who are invaded by alien humans.

"...artist on such films as Hellboy and Kevin Smith's Dogma, works wonders on a budget that was probably equal..."

May 1, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

For Mature Audiences Only

How did Kevin Smith prep to make a movie about two kids making a porn? Years of research.

"...from the director who made Clerks., Chasing Amy, and Dogma, that's saying a lot. Elizabeth Banks and Seth Rogen..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Press Needs to Hold Politicians Accountable

"...Mayor Wynn subscribes to the "growth at all costs" dogma. He voted with Krusee's crowd this year to spend..."

Dec. 11, 2007 Postmarks

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