Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur is a mixture of Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Mad Max!  Filled with action, magic, swords, darkness and an unlikely hero, this version is far from the fairytale

The non-stop action of James Gunn’s second film portraying this ragtag group of heroes is impressive.  However, the snarky and sometimes crude conversations between them is deserving

The life of Emily Dickenson is shown to be one of increasing despair in this film by Terence Davies.  As both writer and director, Davies portrays both a depressing form of Christianity as

The animated tale of two brothers who come to recognize the value of love sounds like a story we would appreciate.  However in the telling of The Boss Baby, we enter such a disturbing

Every parent of a child with autism wants them to thrive.  However, the way they help varies according to the values of the parent.  If the parent believes that the best course is to teach the

In the genre of brutal vengeance, The Magnificent Seven is an exemplary film.  We have a villain sufficiently evil to require our anger.  We have a damsel in distress sufficiently alluring so as to

Bridgett Jones (Renée Zellweger) has returned after a long rest to carry on the sad, but comedic life she portrayed in Bridgett Jones Diary (2001) and Bridgett Jones: The Edge of Reason

Sometimes a movie has little depth of message, but can still be entertaining.  Such is the case of the newly recast and updated version of the 1984 classic “Ghostbusters” which originally

Complications of grief are seldom as troubled as we see in the life of Davis (Jake Gyllenhaal) in the film Demolition.  Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée and based on a screenplay by Brian Sype, 

Although we take the television shopping networks for granted today, that was not true only three decades ago.  Founded in 1986, QVC “Quality, Value, Convenience” was a small cable

The fourth and final film in The Hunger Games franchise is entertaining but lacks the novelty we learned to expect from the earlier films.  Based on a trilogy by Suzanne Collins, the decision to

The broken lives caused by a young mother leaving her husband and three young children to pursue her dream as a rock star is powerfully presented by Jonathan Demme in his film Ricki and the Flash.  Written

The recent film production of I’ll See You in My Dreams is depressing.  That is not to say that it is not good cinema or that the performance of Blythe Danner is not noteworthy.  It is the shallow 

Spy stars Melissa McCarthy who plays Susan Cooper, a super-spy, or better yet a superficial spy, in this slapstick version of a James Bond 007 film.  In only a few short years McCarthy has emerged as one of 

Are there natural disasters that scare you or cause you to fear going places?  I have heard people who live with tornados in the Mid-West tell me that they would never live in California because 

The seventh film in the Fast & Furious series is directed by James Wan and continues the ensemble cast that was assembled over the previous six films.  Written by Chris Morgan, as were 

The sequel of John Madden and Ol Parker’s film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is an engaging tale.  The ensemble cast continues to be its strength as well as the culturally rich setting of India 

When Richard Dawkins suggested in the documentary film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed that aliens “seeded” the earth with the first human beings, Andy and Lana Wachowski were 

When J.R.R. Tolkien created the world of Middle Earth, he did so both as an expression of his literary talents and to explore his Christian faith through analogous symbols.  Thus the power of 

It is an easy prediction to say that Birdman will be loved by the cinema community.  It is a well-crafted story, artfully told, about a series of remarkably shallow people.  The center of the story 

Parents’ ambitions for their children often hurt their relationships and damage their identities.  Thinking that they are helping their children succeed, their love can be eclipsed by the high 

Expecting to enjoy the same romantic depth of Nicholas Sparks as we saw in The Notebook, we were disappointed in this film.  Also based on a novel by Sparks, The Best of Me is similar in its 

The promotional material for The November Man gives you the whole story: An ex-CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his 

It is hard to take seriously the messages delivered through comic books characters, but at least in this case “good” always wins out over “evil.”  If you take this film seriously, though, you miss 

When Marvel Comics’ Stan Lee and Steve Kitko created the character of Spider-man in 1962, they captured the imagination of a generation.  Since the Marvel Universe has been brought to film by Marvel Entertainment, a new generation

Wes Anderson’s wacky interpretation of author Stefan Zweig’s lurid life and times of “The Grand Budapest Hotel” is filled with a cornucopia of stars.  Ralph Fiennes leads

If you remember the days of the “spaghetti western” or low budget romantic films from the 1960’s, then this is an updated version for you.  The story is still

Both directing and playing a major role in his film, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, Kenneth Branagh creates an entertaining if formulaic action film.  Similar to

The choice to film in black and white is appropriate for Alexander Payne’s Nebraska.  The bleak landscape of winter in the northern states creates a depression that color would

The morality explored in Gavin Hood’s science fiction rests on two foundational questions:  Is it moral to turn children into soldiers?  Is it moral to