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Written and directed by Richard Curtis, who also wrote Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones’s Diary, Love Actually has much to recommend it, despite a couple of storylines of questionable taste. The film is book-ended by scenes of arrivals and departures at London’s Heathrow Airport, as we hear a narrator state …
A human raised at the North Pole by an elf learns he is a man, & so sets off for NYC to find his father. Runs into a series of surprises.
I have enjoyed most of Wes Anderson’s droll comedies, especially Moonrise Kingdom and Isle of Dogs. This time his satirical tale set in the desert town of Asteroid City, Population 87, left me a bit cold and nonplussed. Its hero is a husband grieving over the recent loss of his wife and his inability to …
Directed by Nicholas Stoller and written by Nicholas Stoller and Billy Eichner, Bros is the first gay romantic comedy from a major studio featuring an entirely LGBTQ principal cast to be released widely. Unfortunately it drew in less than half its production cost during its opening weekend, despite many glowing reviews. It really is as …
A humble London cleaning woman’s dream of buying a Christian Dior dress inspires her to go to Paris and struggle to make it come true.
A naive but honest Ukrainian history teacher rants against corrupt politicians & his students use social media to spread his fame & get him elected president of the nation.
Tune in to my “Gospel & Comedy” event this Friday, 7 PM Feb. 18 at the Grosse Ile Michigan Presbyterian Church. We’ll explore a few Scripture passages such as the birth of Isaac and some of the parables of Jesus.—and, of course, does God and Jesus have a sense of humor? Some of the many …
After wooing Dora & siring a son with her, Guido goes all out to protect the little boy from reality when all are sent to a Nazi camp.
When a disgruntled TV reporter gets angry with God because of his troubles, chaos results when God gives him charge of things for a period.
When one member of a down on their luck improv group is picked to join the cast of New York’s popular Week End TV show, the other 5 have mixed feelings.