Hacksaw Ridge
Hacksaw Ridge (2016) Rated R Directed by Mel Gibson Production Company: Summit Entertainment Starring Andrew Garfield, Vince Vaughn, Sam Worthington, Hugo Weaving A young man volunteers for combat duty in World War II despite his spiritual convictions to not kill another human being. Opening Thoughts How was your Fourth of July? I spent mine […]
The Last Unicorn
A solitary unicorn discovers that all the rest of her kind have disappeared, and she sets out on a journey to find them, aided by a clumsy wizard and a bandit’s wife…
The Last Picture Show
This week I say goodbye to that old friend, Chunky’s Cinema Pub in Pelham, NH…
The Blues Brothers
It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we’ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses, so let’s hit it and see what God showed me in The Blues Brothers!
Luther
The movie begins in the year 1505 with Martin Luther, fearing death in a thunderstorm, promises God he will pledge his life to him by becoming a monk. He does so to the consternation of his family, who had hopes of him becoming a lawyer…
Under the Tuscan Sun
Being a creature of habit and tradition, I like to watch this movie in early February, bringing in Valentine’s Day in the best way I know how…with happy sighs and chocolate hearts. I guess this isn’t a romance movie per se, at least, it doesn’t have a traditional love story. Rather, Under the Tuscan Sun is about a woman, Frances, who divorces her husband after he…
Tron 1982
TRON (1982) Rated PG Directed by Steven Lisbergere Walt Disney Pictures Starring Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, Cindy Morgan, David Warner, Dan Shor A computer programmer is sucked into a digital world of his own design where he must defeat a devious artificial intelligence intent on taking over the whole system. Opening Thoughts This is […]
8-Bit Christmas
The movie begins in the present day with an adult Jake showing his cell-phone obsessed daughter his Nintendo gaming system. He then proceeds to share the story of a boyhood Christmas when…
Red Dawn
It’s an ordinary September day in Calumet, Colorado. High schoolers Matt, Aardvark, Daryl, Robert, and Danny are in a history class when paratroopers start to drift down from the sky. The troops begin slaughtering teachers and students alike as Matt’s brother Jed rescues them from the attack, speeding them away in his truck…
Rebecca (1940)
A young woman marries a rich Englishman after a whirlwind courtship, and she returns home with him to his country estate, where they are both haunted by memories of his first wife, Rebecca