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Rated PG-13. Our Ratings: V-4 ;L -1 ; S/N –1. Running time: 1 hour 36 min. Blu and Jewel fly by Christ of the Andes on a hang glider. 2011 20th Century Fox Some friends play at friendship but a true friend sticks closer than one’s nearest kin. Proverbs 18:24 In this delightful animated film …
David & Nathan Zellner have chosen an unusual group of a species that may exist only in our imaginations, a family of Sasquatches. We usually think of them as a single creature, often calling them Big Foot, but the filmmakers focus upon a family—the two parents and two male offspring. We follow their ups and …
Writer/director Minhai Baig’s elegaic story of an imaginative boy facing the end of a way of life is deeply moving. It makes me believe all the more that the best of films are being made by indepedant filmmakers. This is a must see film. The setting is the vast Cabrini-Green project that at its height …
Many angry citizens, who are upset over seemingly intractable political disputes, have talked about civil war breaking out in our nation, would do well to watch writer/director Alex Garland’s Civil War. It is a cautionary film, told through the eyes of four journalists, and it is not an uplifting story. One of its lessons is …
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, …
Almost exactly 24 years ago I reviewed the documentary Into the Arms of Strangers that told the story of the Kindertransport, a group of projects involving ten thousand Jewish children whom kind-hearted people were able to transport to England from Hitler-dominated Europe just before World War Two erupted. Director James Hawes’s, film straddling two time …
With little fanfare this inspiring film opened in our theaters midway into Women’s History Month, but it is even more timely—and significant– for another reason. It is probably the best defense of immigrants that you will see in this or any year. Although the name Mother Cabrini is well known because she became the first …
The story of the last years of Janaican reggae singer/composer Bob Marley who sought to bring peace to warring dactions through his music.
The family of Rudolh Höss, Commandant of Auschwitz, ignore the horrific sounds of torture & death transpiring on the other side of the wall, nor are we ever shown the horrors of the other side.
There is a wonderful limited (8 parts) series telling the parallel stories of Dr. MLK and Malcolm X scheduled to appear on the National Geographic Channel on Feb. 1, and then stream the next day on Disney+ and Hulu, with two new episodes debuting weekly on all platforms. I have watched all 8 episodes & …
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