War
Faith of Our Fathers – a.k.a. To the Wall (2015)
I have no objection to the output of PureFlix Entertainment. Christian movie goers should have their films on the big screen just as much as fans of horror or comedy or action pictures. The writers and directors of the films put out by PureFlix have set out on a mission, to give a forgotten audience […]
The Longest Ride (2015)
Nicholas Sparks is the perennial schlock-meister of romantic goo-goo eyes. He has made a cottage industry of creating a romantically-tinged alternate universe in which the ups and downs of romance are beaten back by reading old love letters and restoring a house. His stories are worry-free fantasies designed for those who run screaming from anything […]
The Imitation Game (2014)
Benedict Cumberbatch has made his niche as that actor that you like, yet never quite warm up to. There’s a standoffish quality about his screen presence that pushes you away and, although you’re not turned off, you watch him with great curiosity. For a good while during The Imitation Game, I watched him doing the […]
Unbroken (2014)
It would not be unreasonable to accuse Angelina Jolie of steering her directing career down the same path that has offered great success to Kathryn Bigelow. Bigelow, of course, has had great success with two recent, hard-hitting (not to mention Oscar-winning) war dramas, The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty and so Jolie, it seems, […]
Video Review: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1
Welcome to my ‘We’ll Talk in the Car’ review of “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1.” I decided to do my review in my car because I couldn’t get good sound in the house.
Lone Survivor (2013)
You kind of know where “Lone Survivor” is headed once you hear the title. You also work out the identity of the title survivor once you realize that Mark Wahlberg plays the Navy SEAL who eventually wrote the book on which the film is based. With that pedigree, no one would blame you if you […]