The long-awaited film adaptation of Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. provides a powerful reminder of the true meaning of becoming a woman to a world that glorifies faux “women” like Lia Thomas and Dylan Mulvaney. Adapting…
Think The Silence of the Lambs mixed with The Exorcist and Primal Fear. Blend and stir in some The Screwtape Letters with modern disbelief. The result? A gripping new movie that lives up to its hype: Nefarious. The plot is simple. A supposed sociopathic murderer named…
On Thursday, February 23, the two-week-long, nonstop religious revival at tiny Asbury University in rural Wilmore, Kentucky saw its official end. Starting with about 20 students who stayed after a regular campus chapel service, tens of thousands had been drawn…
I have not watched the Super Bowl (or NFL league play) for years, ever since Colin Kaepernick and his cohort of stooges and ingrates persuaded me that I despise too many of those overpaid, undereducated lunks to care. I likewise…
The franchise of Bond, James Bond has suffered the same fate as some other companies in corporate America: it has lost its brand identity due to a lack of focus. It is both confused and confusing. And the franchise has…
The other day, after watching the 2015 Swedish movie A Man Called Ove for the first time — an experience punctuated, not infrequently, by both laughs and tears — I looked up Rolf Lassgård, the wonderful actor who plays the…
In an episode of the late, great sitcom The King of Queens, Doug Heffernan (Kevin James) and his wife, Carrie (Leah Remini), meet their friends Deacon and Kelly at a cineplex for a night at the movies only to discover…
The promise of a new year is that we have another chance to start fresh and recommit ourselves to our long- and short-term goals. The new year also means that we may be blessed with pleasant surprises. We may find…
The history of Hollywood is studded with failed attempts to adapt European films. Take Édouard Molinaro’s charming 1978 French-Italian comedy La Cage aux Folles, about a gay male couple who masquerade as a straight couple to win the approval of…
“Oh, Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind,” Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) tells the second-grader Susan Walker (Natalie Wood) in the perennial holiday classic Miracle on 34th Street (1947). Sometimes, we get too caught up in our…