The Blackening (2022)
A switch on the usual trapped victims in a horror movie–the entire group is Black
A switch on the usual trapped victims in a horror movie–the entire group is Black
Writer-director Celine Song leaves the fantasy world of The Wheel of Time, which she scripted, to give us a heart-warming story set in the present world of the romantic, yet pragmatic. Divided into three parts, hers is a spiritual film, though that of Buddhism rather than Christianity. It is infused with such wisdom and restraint …
We have all, I am sure, chuckled at one of Yogi Berra’s sayings, such as “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” There’s even a term for these: “Yogi-isms.” His amusing sayings, plus his once almost ubiquitous appearance in TV ads have overshadowed his amazing accomplishments—and it is this which director Sean Mullin and executive …
A beloved book about a young girl’s puberty & confusion of faith in an interfaith marriage is faithfully transferred to the screen.
Kevin Hanlon and Dan Carracino’s fascinating bio-documentary is filled with a myriad of details on the life of the founder of Alcoholics, William G. Wilson. Employing photographs, recorded speeches, home movie clips, correspondence, diary entries, commentary by several historians, testimony by numerous AA members of how they owe their lives to AA, and dramatized scenes, …
The story of how Nike designed and signed the Air Jordan shoe and how his mother shrewdly held out for a percentage of the sales.
During the Hippy Era a charismatic street evangelist transforms a youth & the pastor of a dying church into the spearhead of a Jesus Revolution.
A French couple try to evict the man who bought their basement when he moves in & is discovered to be a Neo-Nazi influencing their daughter.
In this remake of a Kurosawa classic a London bureaucrat finds meaning for his life when he pushes through a neglected children’s park project.
A group of abused Mennonite women meet in a hayloft while the men are gone & debate whether to stay & fight the rapist or leave & start over.