Johnny Depp was the face of evil in 2015. There, I said it. Thanks to the 2001 non-fiction expose, Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob, Depp delivered a magnificently wicked performance as Whitey Bulger. (The only other film that came close to that was?Denis Villeneuve’s?Sicario,…
The Coen Brothers? Hail, Caesar is an entertaining look at the old Hollywood Studio System with a load of insider references. (I would love to have a Cliff Notes type of resource to identify all those references.)
Alrighty. Let me tell y?all what you already know. $135 million in the bank in it?s first three days. Hard R rating. F-bombs, blood, sex and wanton irreverence galore. Yup. That?s Deadpool ? that career reviving, genre twisting, don?t give a darn Fox/Marvel collaboration that is the toast of early 2016. At first glance to…
Ever since the atrocity that was X-Men Origins: Wolverine, it has been Ryan Reynolds’ mission to give fans the perfect Deadpool movie. For years, FOX has put it on hold. Maybe they didn’t want to go the R rated movie route, or maybe they weren’t confident in the character. But one would think, with FOX’s…
I?m sure that many people head to the kitchen for dessert when the Oscar is awarded for Best Foreign Language Film. But that is one of the categories that I pay special attention to. Films that come from other countries and cultures often give us wonderful insights into the what the world is like outside our own cultural bubble.
I don’t usually do horror, but when I do … it’s Guillermo del Toro. Not all directors hit it out of the park for me every time, but del Toro does. While I didn’t?love?Hellboy, it was engaging;?Pacific Rim?and?Pan’s Labyrinth?are exquisitely visualized tales that would make James Cameron blush. And then, there’s?Crimson Peak. Centered around Edith…
There is a sense in which this story reflects not just what is needed for individuals to find their forgiveness, but also for the Church (again, not just the Catholic Church) and society and the task for bringing healing into places where our own flaws and failures have brought pain.
This conflict about reality is essentially a spiritual and metaphysical question. Even within Western thought there often arise conflicts between science and religion?even between different scientific views and different religious views.
In The Revenant, Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his son are scouts for a team of fur trappings in the late nineteenth?Century. After a chance encounter with a bear, Glass is left bloodied and (almost) dead. As the team struggles to carry him along, they decide to leave him until he passes on. However, after…
With a compelling story, great acting, and fantastic visuals, The Martian is a worthy film to be considered for this year?s Best Picture nomination.
