I am sure my first encounter with Beauty and the Beast was on VHS. When the movie was released in theaters in November of 1991, I was living in Wyoming in a town north of a?very small private school, training for pastoral ministry. No prospects had panned out for that vocation, although I had, for…
The Reagans are back – and better than ever. While some procedural shows seem to stall out (or worse, use the same storylines over and over again), the beauty of this show about a family on one side of the law is that it continues to make us care about the struggle. The law may…
Back in 1984, director brother Joel and Ethan Coen teamed with first-time cinematographer Barry Sonnefeld to deliver their first feature film,?Blood Simple. They would go on to work together again on Raising Arizona and?Miller’s Crossing, but their combined filmography includes?O Brother, Where Art Thou?,?No Country For Old Men,?Men in Black, Fargo,?Get Shorty, and a host…
Longmire?is one of the best shows on television or, at least it was, until it was cancelled by A&E and picked up by Netflix! Now, for those who don’t stream shows, Warner Bros. and Netflix is releasing the fourth season of the hit, modern-day western about the exploits of Absaroka County sheriff Walt Longmire (Robert…
So, there are these four teenage brothers who fight crime, but they happen to be … turtles. Who knew that these Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would be so popular thirty-two years after they first appeared in the comics? Of course, thanks to the production of Michael Bay, the second in this cinematic iteration has more…
Perhaps the only thing more unstoppable than a horror movie villain is a horror movie sequel.? Since 1935?s The Bride of Frankenstein, Hollywood has proven that you can?t contain evil in only ninety minutes of celluloid.? But out of the hundreds of sequels, only a handful rival their source material.? Still, every now and then,…
The Iron Giant?is an old-school animated adventure that highlights the unearthed prowess of director Brad Bird. While this was his animated debut away from Disney, Bird is best known for his work on?The Incredibles?and?Ratatoille, as well as live-action films like?Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol?and?Tomorrowland. It’s obvious that the man knows how to blow things up beautifully…
With a star-studded cast to top even the first film,?Now You See Me 2?blends Penn & Teller with?Ocean’s Eleven, proving to be wildly entertaining, clever, and dazzling. It’s a lark of epic proportions! In hiding, Atlas (Jamie Eisenberg), Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson), and Jack Wilder (James Franco) continue to wait for their next ‘assignment’ to…
In 2011, before Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, and American Sniper, Bradley Cooper starred with Robert De Niro in a ?little? thriller called Limitless, based on Alan Glynn?s novel The Dark Fields. Now, Cooper executive produced a CBS series of the same name about the powers of mind that one man inherits when he takes…
Kevin Bacon leads an eclectic but effective cast in Blumhouse Productions/Chapter One Films? thriller, The Darkness, a spooky (if not overly scary or original) allegorical yarn that speaks to the power of faith and forgiveness. Though not as unnerving as some of its contemporaries, The Darkness blends Native American spiritual folklore with creepy hands-from-outta-the-wall special…
