I love interspecies films such as Fly Away, and Brazilian director David Schurmann’s film is a delightful addition to the genre. Based on a true story, it celebrates how kindness can result in a friendship that spans hundreds of miles of ocean. Joao Perei de Souza (Jean Reno) and wife Maria (Adriana Barraza) are a fisher family …
Escape From Germany (2024)
In this faith-based film set during the Nazi rule the escapees are not the usual Jewish families but 79 Mormon missionaries seeking to convert Germans to their born in America religion—you know, the kind of well-dressed young male couples whom you might have seen knocking on doors in your neighborhood. Set in August 1939, this …
The Only Way (1970)
Good Film for HOLOCAUST Day, May 6, 2024 The story of how the Danes, or rather some of them, smuggled most of the 8000 Danish Jews to Sweden is a good film to watch in honor of Holocaust Day, which comes in early May. Director/cowriter Bent Christensen focuses upon one family, the Steins, consisting of …
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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Damsel (2018)
A surprising and delightful movie. Click the image to read my entire review.
Damsel (2018)
In the Old West a suitor & a fake parson search for a woman who turns out to be far from the damsel in distress the lover had thought her to be.
Dunkirk (2017)
While over 400 K British & Allied troops are pounded on Dunkirk’s beach by Nazis, a flotilla of boats, protected by British planes, rush to evacuate them.
The Finest Hours (2015)
The true story of how 4 U.S. Coast Guardsmen ventured into a super storm on “a suicide mission” & rescued over 30 men stranded on a tanker broken in half.
Dolphin Tale 2 (2014)
A sequel to the story of a boy bonding with a dolphin with a prosthetic tale, the humans must deal with the dolphin’s grief over the death of its poolmate.
BABE: Pig in the City (1998)
In this sequel the little sheepherding pig Babe stays at a hotel when his mistress is detained. While she’s away his adventures include rescuing a drowning dog & saving his fellow animals from the authorities.