Flora & Son (2023)
When troubled son Max refuses a guitar from his mother Flora, she decides to learn to play it, her teacher via Internet being a Californian., this leading to positive results.
The Swimmers (2022)
The true story of 2 Syrian refugee sisters, one of whom became an Olympic swiimer & the other who joined a refugee aiding agency.
Tiger Within (2020)
In L.A. an elderly Holocaust survivor befriends a homeless Goth teenager from Ohio despite the swastika on the back of her jacket.
The Little Mermaid (2023)
Any questions I had about the wisdom of remaking the classic film that revived the flagging Disney studio back in 1989 were quickly dissipated when Halle Bailey appears as Ariel, the unsatisfied daughter of underseas King Triton (Javier Bardem). This wonderful singer, whose voice can raise the rafters, greatly enhances the story, her beautifully tawny …
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
A beloved book about a young girl’s puberty & confusion of faith in an interfaith marriage is faithfully transferred to the screen.
The Master Gardener (2023
The violent past of the Master Gardener haunts him when the owner tasks him with taking on her troubled bi-racial niece as an apprentice.
The Quiet Girl (2022)
A shy, quiet Irish girl ignored by her overly taxed pregnant mother and drunkard father blossoms during the summer she spends with loving relatives.
Jesus Revolution (2023)
During the Hippy Era a charismatic street evangelist transforms a youth & the pastor of a dying church into the spearhead of a Jesus Revolution.
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)
The classic story is re-imagined as unfolding in Fascist Italy where the wooden puppet learns slowly what it is to be a human & a father to accept a son as he is.
SOME FURTHER THEOLOGICAL RUMINATIONS ON FOUR 1997 FILMS (Including ROSEWOOD)
(The four films reviewed in the April 1997 issue are Secrets & Lies; Marvin’s Room; Sling Blade; and Rosewood.) “It isn’t good for the man to live alone,” the author of the second Genesis creation story has God declare. And so he relates the story of the creation of the woman, the two forming a …
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