This challenging story about the life of a tough Irish priest, caught in an impossible circle of relationships, mirrors the final days of Jesus. Click the movie’s title to read my entire review.
Get On Up (2014)
James Brown’s life was glorious, heroic and deeply troubled as well. Click on the movie’s title to read my complete review of “Get On Up.”
THE HURRICANE (1999)
Black boxer, convicted of murder by a racist cop using false testimony, writes a book but is unable to prove innocence until a teenaged boy pushes his case.
NUREMBERG (2000)
The docudrama of the Nuremberg Trials, presided over by Justice Jackson, is the story of how the infamous Nazi top echelon were at last brought to justice.
Divergent (2014)
Rated R. Running time: 2 hours 18 min. Our content advisories (1-10): Violence 5; Language 1; Sex/Nudity 2. Our star rating (1-5): 2.5 Don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its own mould, but let God re-mould your minds from within, so that you may prove in practice that the plan of God …
JESUS OF MONTREAL (1989)
When Daniel,an actor in Montreal, is hired by a priest to revise a tired old Passion Play, he uses modern scholarship to come up with a version that upsets and exposes the hypocrisy of the priest.
Nebraska (2013)
When a father keeps trying to walk to Nebraska to claim a prize, a son, unable to convince him that it is a scam, decides to drive him there. Rich in humor.
The Book Thief (2013)
Based on a beloved novel, the story is set in Germany in WWII as a young girl must hide with foster parents when the Gestapo arrest her real parents. Click the movie title to read the whole review.
Shadowlands (1993)
Late in life famed author/theologian C.S. Lewis marries American author Jay Davidson, only to lose her a few years later to cancer. Once writing about pain from an academic viewpoint, he now understands it from the point of view of the broken-hearted living in shadowlands.