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.
AVATAR: The Way of Water (2022)
The Na’vi family has to flee to a distant land of water & learn new ways when the humans return to Pandora’s moon to rape it for minerals.
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 …
60th Anniversary of the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, my journals, part 2
For this 60th anniversary, the veteran film critic and author shares with us his journals from the historic Freedom Summer in Mississippi.
Storm Warning (1950)
The people who made this early film about the KKK water down its attack, as we will see, with the script barely mentioning racism. It is distinguished mainly because it features three stars who seldom appeared in a film purportedly dealing seriously with social issues. Ginger Rogers, Doris Day, and Ronald Reagan were better known …
The Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot (2024)
Director/co-writer (with his wife Rebekah) Joshua Weigel tells a story that we’d say is too Pollyannish, but for the fact that it is based on a true story. It is a heart-warming story of a community of people opening their hearts to dozens of abused children, so broken that no one wanted to take them …
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Asphalt City (2023)
French-born director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire has gifted us with the most harrowing parable about an ambulance medic since Martin Scorsese’ 1999 film Bringing Out the Dead. That title fits the newer film as well, with so many of the victims treated by the two medics in this story dying before or just after arriving at the hospital, …