Hell or High Water (2016)
This is a 5-star movie with the return of Jeff Bridges as a tough Texas Ranger. Click the image to read my entire review.
August 2016 Journal
Inside this Issue: Hell or High Water, Star Trek Beyond, The Secret Life of Pets, Now You See Me 2, Wiener-Dog, The Purge: Election Year, and more.
Going in Style (2017)
Three life-long friends plan & carry out a bank robbery when the bank is responsible for one losing his house & all of them their pensions.
Finding Spiritual Values in Oscar’s “Best Pictures”
Courtesy of the Presbyterian News Service Each year the Academy for Motion Pictures and Sciences nominates five to ten films for the “Best Picture” category. I wish that it were a full ten this year, with the addition of Martin Scorcese’s haunting Silence rounding out the number. This well-filmed story, based on the terrible persecution …
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Film Capsules August 2016
To see a longer review, click onto the titles that are highlighted. Hell or High Water Rated R. Running time: 1 hour 42 min. Proverbs 6:30-31; Romans 6:23. This crime thriller is outstanding due to the excellent cast and its story grounded in the on-going financial crisis in which banks are foreclosing on property owners …
Clemency (2019)
The warden of a prison is deeply affected by the ordeal of presiding over executions, especially of her 12th, who might well be innocent of killing a police officer.
1917 (2019)
During WW I, to save 1600 British soldiers from a German trap, 2 soldiers are sent on a dangerous mission to call off their attack.
The Report (2019)
The true story of how Daniel Jones investgated for Sen. Dianne Feinstein the CIA’s torture of Al Qaeda prisoners and tried to cover it up.
The Report (2019)
The true story of Senate Investigator Daniel Jones’ uncovering of the CIA’s torturing of suspected terrorists caught after 9/11 & the attempt to cover it up.
Downton Abbey (2019)
All our favorite characters are in this big screen version of Downton Abbey with so many subplots that I wish it could be a series again.