Boatlift: An Untold Tale of 9/11 Resilience
On September 11, 2001, ordinary boat captains answered an extraordinary call, helping evacuate nearly 500,000 people from Manhattan. In this Forged in Film reflection on Boatlift: An Untold Tale of 9/11 Resilience, we look at courage, sacrifice, and what the Good Samaritan can teach us about stepping forward when someone needs help.
A Star is Born
A Star is Born (2018) Rated R Directed by Bradley Cooper Production Company: Warner Brothers Starring Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Sam Elliot, Andrew Dice Clay, Ron Rifkin A mega-famous rock star falls in love with a waitress, but can their love survive when her talent starts to […]
Star Trek 2009
Star Trek (2009) Rated PG-13 Directed by JJ Abrams Production Company: Paramount Pictures Starring Chris Pine, Chris Hemsworth, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, Karl Urban, Leonard Nimoy, Eric Bana, Bruce Greenwood, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Ben Cross, Winona Ryder A young Starfleet cadet and his classmates must band together to stop a hostile alien […]
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
It began with the Forging of the Great Rings…
Avonlea “Memento Mori”
Avonlea “Memento Mori” Not Rated Season 5 Episode 2 (air date 3/7/94) Directed by Don McBrearty Production Company Sullivan Entertainment Starring Sarah Polley, Jackie Burroughs, Mag Ruffman, Cedric Smith, Lally Cadeau In the quaint village of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island, Hetty, matriarch of the King family, prepares to celebrate her 50th […]
Walking Distance
Martin Sloan is a businessman, harried, tired, fed up with his life, and looking for a break from it all. He finds himself at a filling station just outside the town of Homewood, where he grew up…
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…