Titus Kaphar, painter, speaker, and now filmmaker, delivers a slow-building knockout of a film with a semi-autobiographical message in Exhibiting Forgiveness. Tarrell (André Holland) and Aisha (Audra Day) have a beautiful marriage, happy life, and successful careers....
Todd Komarnicki (Sully) has taken the facts and theology of German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and directed an earnest cast in delivering a moving, challenging film about a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the peak of World War II. Komarnicki spun a screenplay...
Nat Clifton (born Clifton Nathaniel) is better known by history as "Sweetwater." As one of the first black men to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA), Clifton played well in high school and college, before a three-year tour in Europe as a soldier in the...
In 2017, a "little" film called Wonder shared R.J. Palacio's story about finding love and acceptance through the example of a little boy with facial deformities named Auggie. In that story, Auggie's main tormentor is a young man named Julian (Bryce Gheisar) who finds...
Whew! The Watchers is a creepy take on the fact that no matter what you think, your life doesn't stay secret. Someone is always watching you, and just because you lie to yourself (and everyone else) doesn't mean that the truth isn't out there. Now that we got the...
Twisters is a sequel, kind of, to the 1996 disaster flick starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton. It's a different kind of film though, thanks to the nearly thirty year difference in special effects technology and the patient direction of Minari director Lee Isaac Chung....
Prequels. They're everywhere. Some provide something that deepens our love and understanding of the movie that isn't chronological, but adds to the mythos. Some are less spectacular, or look like they must've happened after the film that we loved because everything is...
The latest collection of Sylvester Stallone's Rocky movies is Rocky: The Ultimate Knockout Collection. It’s hard not to love Stallone, even if the image you have of Stallone involves some Rambo, Judge Dredd, Barney Ross, and a sprinkling of Dwight Manfredi: He’ll...
So my English major side is incredibly bothered by my title here, but the truth is that The Fall Guy may be the most perfect movie to hit theaters in years. In terms of appealing to action fans, romance fans, men, women, conservatives, liberals, even Red Sox and...