“From the minds who brought you?Napoleon Dynamite?and?Nacho Libre…” That should tell you enough?as you watch?a film about what happens when an archaeologist runs out of real Biblical artifacts to hunt for and starts making them up. Sam Rockwell stars as the digger-turned-gravedigger Don Verdean, while?Flight of the Concords’?Jemaine Clement serves as his Israeli partner-in-crime Boaz….
In the latest direct-to-DVD Lego DC film, the Justice League battles Brainaic’s evil plan to miniaturize and catalogue Earth (and all other societies). Thanks to the brave efforts of superheroes (some of which you’ve never heard of before), kids and adults will delight as his plot is thwarted. Just don’t be surprised if someone from…
The following are excerpts from our staff roundtable over The Oscars highs and lows. Sunday night (live) J Alan Sharrer:?Some iffy camera work there.?This is a pretty brutal monologue. Chris Utley:?LOVE IT! Alan:?This scrolling thing makes the presentation look like Pop Up Video. Darrel Manson:?My picks for the first two came through…. Alan:?I expect…
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.- I Corinthians 9:24 It’s not surprising that Paul used a race metaphor to explain the life of a Christian. He could have used wrestling or some other…
When Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber) becomes the new editor of?The Boston Globe, he pushes investigative journalist Robby Robinson (Michael Keaton) to explore the accusations of lawyer Mitch Garabedian (Stanley Tucci). Garabedian has gone public, saying that the Catholic church and local authorities have covered up accusations of child abuse by a local priest. Robinson is…
In Pixar’s latest hit animated feature, Arlo the young Apatosaurus finds himself forced out into the wild after his father is swept away by a flood and he encounters a cave child, who he calls Spot. Blaming Spot for his father’s death, Arlo accidentally leaves his mother behind in an attempt to exact some sort…
Twenty years after his mother was murdered by terrorists, Harry Turner (Kellan Lutz) must go on a frantic rescue mission (of sorts) to save his father, legendary CIA operative Leonard Turner (Bruce Willis). When his ex-girlfriend and current operative Victoria (Gina Carano) is sent to stop him, the two join forces in an attempt to…
Over a decade ago, on the way to a youth retreat, one of my senior high students asked if we could play the album of an up-and-coming comedian in the van. After some discussion over the comedian’s content and language, I agreed with the stipulations that it would be both clean?and?funny. An hour later, having…
The Oscar races this year are absolutely clear cut… in my mind. Having seen fourteen?of the nominated films?(out of approximately sixteen?films in the major categories),?these are my favorites to win. At Best Actor, the portrayal of screenwriter and Communist Dalton Trumbo by Bryan Cranston put him in rare air, not that of the illicit drugs…
Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) wrote excellent scripts but his membership in the Communist Party made him anathema in the mid-nineteenth century. After he was sentenced to eleven months in prison, he became a persona non grata in Hollywood, but found a way to use his words to tell stories… even if he couldn’t get credit…
