Clifford the Big Red Dog has never been my favorite children’s book, and I vaguely remember watching some animated episodes with my son as he progressed from the intolerable Barney to the more likable children’s programs like The Smurfs. The in-between spot found him watching this giant puppy rampaging through the streets of his small…
In Netflix’s The Unforgivable, Sandra Bullock plays Ruth Slater, who went to prison for twenty years for murder and now slowly works to rebuild her life. Using Sally Wainwright’s British series Unforgiven as a road map, director Nora Fingscheidt sets the audience up for a series of shocking, emotional twists and turns, all while asking…
The Erwin Brothers have delivered the real life stories Woodlawn, I Can Only Imagine, and I Still Believe, with American Underdog about to debut with the story of Kurt Warner’s unlikely rise from grocery store stocker to NFL MVP. But during the pandemic, they recorded interviews with leading Contemporary Christian Music artists to detail the…
Warner Bros. has thought of everything, aimed at enticing the lovers of all things J.R.R. Tolkien and Peter Jackson into the purchase to end all purchases, the Middle-Earth Ultimate Collector’s Edition of the films that brought The Lord of the Rings saga into the twenty-first century and made its characters household names even among those…
S.E. Hinton’s seminal work, made into a motion picture by Francis Ford Coppola, wasn’t considered complete by purists. Now, the story of two 1960s Oklahoma gangs, the East side’s poor Greasers and the West-side rich kid Socs, gets a more elaborate release with thirty-three extra minutes of material. Launching a series of “Brat Pack” films…
Forty years after David Carradine’s Kung Fu debuted, Kung Fu (2021) showed a different twist on the old story: Nicky Shen (Olivia Liang) learns at the Shaolin Monastery in the Yunnan Province of China, after she runs away from the arranged marriage her mother attempts to force her into as a student studying abroad. When…
Jared Padalecki transitioned seamlessly from Supernatural to the reboot of the Chuck Norris headliner Walker (dropping Texas Ranger), moving from a fifteen-year run as a demon hunter to a criminal-pursuing, door-kicking member of the Rangers. As Cordell Walker, he returns home after spending too long on the road doing his job, only to discover his…
Screenfish is giving away 5 pairs of 2 FREE tickets to the November 3rd showing of NEEDTOBREATHE‘s new documentary, Into the Mystery at your local cinema. The film is only in theaters for one night and you can find a complete listing of theaters here. Winners will be notified on Monday November 1. Check to make sure there is a…
For the last thirty years, James Bond has captured my attention, with the mix of courage, violence, wit, and debonair charm of George Lazenby, Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and, most recently, Daniel Craig. I have in fact written more on the character than on just about anything else (short of Star…
In an alternate DC Universe, Joker and Harley Quinn decide to have some fun in Metropolis, at Superman’s expense. They kill Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, and Superman’s unborn child that Lane is carrying, before devastating the entirety of Metropolis. Superman loses his temper and kills Joker, before announcing to the world that evil and injustice…
