Each year many thousands of people walk the 600 mile Camino de Santiago, a route that has been a religious pilgrimage since the middle ages. Not all those who walk the Camino are religious pilgrims, but even those who do it as tourists may well discover spiritual insights along the way. Strangers on the Earth is the most recent documentary to focus on the Camino.
In Ocean?s Eleven, Danny Ocean gets back the wife who had left him. (For a list of actors playing ?the eleven,? see my previous review, Ocean?s Eleven: Danny?s Perfect Hand.) In Ocean?s Twelve, it?s Rusty Ryan?s turn to get back the girl. At the beginning of the movie, Rusty is seen with Isabel Lahiri, who…
What happens when all you?ve ever dreamed of is taken away? That is a question that many films ask, but few answer it as beautifully and spiritually as Chlo? Zhao?s The Rider.
Warner Bros.’ Archive Collection releases, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt and While the City Sleeps, are the latest in a batch of ‘old school’ dramas in black and white that film fans will investigate for nuggets of past glory and drama. In the first, a newspaper reporter sets out to expose the fragile, tenuous state of…
One of my biggest regrets is I did not read more “classic novels” when I was growing up. I was well into my adulthood before I read such books as Of Mice and Men and Watership Down. My first reading of A Wrinkle in Time was in 2009 when I was spearheading Hollywood Jesus’ LOST…
Directed by Ethan Warren, West of Her tells the story of Dan (Ryan Caraway), a young man searching for purpose. Alone and adrift in life, he signs on with a mysterious organization, agreeing to travel the country with the enigmatic Jane (Kelsey Siepser) as they unveil mysterious and enigmatic street art in the middle of…
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight?takes Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignola’s story of the same name, unofficially the first DC Elseworlds story printed, and transforms it into an R-rated animated feature film that pits Batman against Jack the Ripper. With Bruce Greenwood as Batman/Bruce Wayne and Jennifer Carpenter as Selina Kyle, the film dynamically spins a story…
Winter has come. In the seventh season of HBO’s?Game of Thrones, which may be the most addictive television show of all time (at least, since?Lost), the separate worlds held apart by power, water, and dragons finally crash together in an explosive penultimate season in George R.R. Martin’s wickedly created series. Now available on Blu-ray, DVD,…
One of my earliest cinematic memories is watching?The Miracle Worker?at school. In fact, we watched it for multiple years, to the disgust of my friends, while I found myself captivated by the determined insistence of Annie Sullivan to help Helen Keller learn to communicate. There was beauty there, back in the black and white narrative…
So…um…wow! ?The World Series is packing more compelling action than the entire 2017 Movie Season! ?My Dodgers may be on the brink of losing, but that storyline is better than 90% of the crap Hollywood has force fed onto our eyeballs this year! Anyhoo…let?s get to it (SPOILER WARNING): Suburbicon?is a metaphor about White Flight…
