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...
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...
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...
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...
I begrudgingly watched?another?Steve Jobs film. Seriously, was there more information to be covered, some new angle to be unveiled? As a matter of fact, there was. Thanks to Danny Boyle's (Sunshine, 127 Hours, Slumdog Millionaire)?direction and Michael Fassbender's...
When Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield) defaults on his mortgage payments, real estate mogul Rick Carver (Michael Shannon) takes his house. Fighting to get a set of tools back from Carver's work crew, Nash is offered various roles that allow him to climb from gofer to...
