Movie Review: Sifting the Ashes of Bible Belt Church Fires

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Neil Genzlinger

A Texas church that burned, from “Little Hope Was Arson.” Credit Jamie Maldonado/The Orchard

HOLLYWOOD---Ten churches were burned in January and February 2010 before two young men, Jason R. Bourque and Daniel G. McAllister, were arrested. There’s nothing fancy about “Little Hope Was Arson,” a documentary on the 2010 church fires in East Texas, and that’s the beauty of it. The filmmaker, Theo Love, presents the people in the story as they are, without passing judgment and without apology, whether they are investigators or pastors or just ordinary folks caught up in the inexplicable. It’s Americana unvarnished and, because of that, as absorbing as it is respectful. [link]