Dave Enjoys

Charity and I recently watched Traitor and thoroughly enjoyed it. Normally, I might not have picked the title up – the preview while interesting wasn’t amazing – but Don Cheadle is a huge draw for me in any film, since his amazing work with Hotel Rwanda (on the Rwandan Genocide) and his advocacy repeatedly for [...]

What defines beauty? How do we find things that touch over very souls? Today I want to look at several films that bring me to the brink of tears and stir my heart into a frenzy of passion and humility. These films cross genres and are beautiful for the agony they arise within us – [...]

Hotel Rwanda stars Don Cheadle as a hotel manager in Rwanda during the genocide who also happens to be Hutu (the tribe in power at the time that led the genocide). Cheadle’s character, based on real-life Paul Rusesabagina, refuses to participate in the genocide and rather than idly stand by begins to offer Tutsis (the [...]