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Kenneth Morefield

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Teacher, film critic, board gamer, Christian, author. Personal site: http://1morefilmblog.com. Owner and curator of http://artsandfaith.com

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Kenneth Morefield @kenmorefield.bsky.social · Feb 2

My ten favorite film experiences of 2024.

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2025 Top Ten - 1More Film Blog

In Stephen Frears's adaptation of High Fidelity, the hapless but somehow affable protagonist, Rob, lists his dream jobs, with "architect" coming in at #5. Eventually, after some pushback from his girl...

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Kenneth Morefield @kenmorefield.bsky.social · 7d

Speaking of government waste, the highest paid state employee in Louisiana is set to make $54 million dollars to not coach football.

Kenneth Morefield @kenmorefield.bsky.social · 9d

Congrats.

Kenneth Morefield @kenmorefield.bsky.social · 11d

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.

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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Kenneth Morefield @kenmorefield.bsky.social · 13d

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

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Kenneth Morefield @kenmorefield.bsky.social · 16d

Blue Moon (Linklater, 2025) 1morefilmblog.com/2025/10/18/b...

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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Kenneth Morefield @kenmorefield.bsky.social · 17d

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.

Kenneth Morefield @kenmorefield.bsky.social · 19d

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?

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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Kenneth Morefield @kenmorefield.bsky.social · 23d

If by "people" he means "Peter Thiel," than I probably agree.

Kenneth Morefield @kenmorefield.bsky.social · Sep 4

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.

Kenneth Morefield @kenmorefield.bsky.social · Aug 26

"...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."

Kenneth Morefield @kenmorefield.bsky.social · Aug 12

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Ken Morefield reviews Suspended Time at 1More Film Blog

Suspended Time (Assayas, 2024) - 1More Film Blog

Suspended Time is the first narrative set during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in which I recognized elements of my own experience of the time. The World Health Organization reports that just over se...

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Kenneth Morefield @kenmorefield.bsky.social · Aug 1

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....

Kenneth Morefield @kenmorefield.bsky.social · Jul 2

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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Kenneth Morefield @kenmorefield.bsky.social · Jun 27

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.

Kenneth Morefield @kenmorefield.bsky.social · Jun 12

First record album I ever owned, a gift from my cousin, circa 1974.

Kenneth Morefield @kenmorefield.bsky.social · Jun 6

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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Kenneth Morefield @kenmorefield.bsky.social · Jun 4

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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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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Kenneth Morefield @kenmorefield.bsky.social · May 28

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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Kenneth Morefield @kenmorefield.bsky.social · May 20

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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Kenneth Morefield @kenmorefield.bsky.social · May 18

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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Kenneth Morefield @kenmorefield.bsky.social · May 17

Write your name and your dream on a
Card or a pad or a ticket
Throw it high in the air and
Should our lady pick it
She will change your way of life
For a week or even two
Name me anyone who cares as much as Eva Peron
Rollin' on out, rollin' on out

Kenneth Morefield @kenmorefield.bsky.social · May 15

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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Kenneth Morefield @kenmorefield.bsky.social · May 15

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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Kenneth Morefield @kenmorefield.bsky.social · May 12

Neil R. Coulter welcomes Paterson to the 2025 Arts & Faith Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films list:

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Paterson - Arts & Faith

“Well, Paterson. How’s life doin’ you?”“Uh, no complaints. You?” What is “the good life”? It’s a question that has occupied humans in every age. To answer it, we create stories and proverbs that warn ...

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Kenneth Morefield @kenmorefield.bsky.social · May 12

Neal R. Coulter explains why voters thought a fifty year-old, made for television special deserved a spot with the masters of world cinema on the 2025 Arts & Faith Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films list.

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A Charlie Brown Christmas - Arts & Faith

This commercial dog is not going to ruin my Christmas. A Charlie Brown Christmas premiered on CBS on December 9, 1965, and every year since, it has continued to welcome viewers into twenty-five minute...

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