Everyone has their favourite Christmas film. Maybe it?s something traditional like Miracle on 34th Street, It?s a Wonderful Life, or White Christmas or more modern treasures like Elf or Home Alone but each of these classics seem to bring something nostalgic or special on a cold, winter night. Then, there?s Christmas Eve. When a car…
I remember seeing The Return of the Jedi?as a seven year old. Sure, I’d seen?A New Hope?and?The Empire Strikes Back. I couldn’t wait for the good guys to bust in and reclaim?Han (remember, we didn’t know for sure he could be rescued but we?hoped), and for the evil Empire to be destroyed. In those days…
Charles Dickens was a genius. His evaluation of the nature of humankind mixed with an astute understanding of what conversion, repentance, and redemption look like still stands tall as a classic representation of the Christian faith?and?Christmas itself. But when it comes to the cinematic adaptation of his fine morality play, there is none quite like…
Longmire: Season Four?is one of the?best shows I’ve watched this year. While?Quantico?and?Blindspot?have the splashiest ad spots, Netflix’s latest pickup quietly dominates with action, team dynamics, and socially-conscious issues about what it means to be human in today’s ever-changing landscape. Robert Taylor stars as Sheriff Longmire, the taciturn leader of the Absaroka County, Wyoming, sheriff’s department,…
With apologies to?Fantastic Four?and?The Maze Runner:The Scorch Trials,?Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation?is the biggest film to hit Blu-ray and DVD between now and Christmas… and it’s not even close. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is back in his fifth MI film, this time directed from a screenplay written by his collaborator Christopher McQuarrie (Edge of Tomorrow,?Jack Reacher,…
Mark Sommer tackles The Return of the Jedi, Hollywood’s portrayal of women, and the hope of the Jedi in his latest editorial.
The Empire Strikes Back begins on a seemingly dead ice planet, Hoth. The bleakness of the planet is contrasted with the warm relationship which has evolved among the four main protagonists. Although Leia is furious that Han is planning to leave, their conflict only thinly veils the affection between them. And even though she continues…
Anakin Skywalker turns to the Dark Side. Why? The simple answer you may take away from this movie is that Anakin was afraid of losing Padm? because of the dreams he is having about her death. Darth Sidious has promised him the key to keeping her alive, so he turns to keep that hope alive….
?The Dark Side clouds everything.? Yoda admits?to Chancellor Palpatine that he is unsure of what awaits them in the future. Senator Padm? Amidala has just returned to Coruscant, and attackers assault her ship, killing her decoy. Her company joins Yoda, Plapatine, Master Windu, and Ki-Adi-Mundi, and she tells them that ?everything in my being tells…
As the world approached the third millennium, Star Wars movie fans were getting excited. After a decade and a half of waiting, we were finally going to get more details about the ?back story.? What we were about to find out would bewilder and confuse us a bit, and many would be rather disappointed. Many…
