Al Pacino is a whirling dervish of a screen presence. He sucks the air out of the room for anybody brave enough..
by Gil Rendle Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Md. 156 pages Reviewed by Allen D. Timm Gil Rendle has turned the math of..
edited by Cynthia A. Jarvis and Elizabeth Johnson WJK, Louisville, Ky. 541 pages A feast indeed! This commentary in the Feasting on..
“Spare Parts” is a feel-good movie that is curiously awkward in places, but nonetheless manages to deliver the emotional impact of the..
Movies about cyber-hacking are difficult to make because watching a guy sitting at a computer is not exactly thrilling. But trying to..
by Philip Jenkins HarperOne, San Francisco. 448 pages REVIEWED BY KEN KOVACS Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian..
Rural Appalachia is its own insulated world. Everybody has pickup trucks, which is about the only modern concession. People live pretty much..
“Selma” is an emotional experience. Whether or not you lived through the turbulent 1960s, you know that the social upheaval changed the..
by Anthony Doerr Scribner, New York. 531 pages REVIEWED BY LAURA CUNNINGHAM "None really knows why they are alive until they know..
by Judy Mitchell Rich CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 242 pages Reviewed by Houston Hodges Is “covert witness” a contradiction in terms?..
At several levels, this is a very hard movie to watch. The hardest part to take in is the war violence. We're..
by Marcia Mount Shoop Cascade Books, Eugene Ore. 132 pages Reviewed by Leslie A. Klingensmith This fall I joined a..
We first meet Margaret (Amy Adams) back in the 1950s, when housewives were expected to wear house dresses, stay home with their..
This movie is so full of clichés that you have a basic decision to make at the outset: just roll with all..
It's more difficult to evaluate a musical than a "regular" movie. The whole experience is on an entirely different plane. Characters burst..
Only rarely has one man done so much for so many and yet gone so completely unrecognized for it in his lifetime...
Not all books convert well to the big screen. Laura Hillenbrand was already a successful author (“Seabiscuit”) and had successfully converted her..
There are so many different ways to approach this film. One prominent critic, Godfrey Cheshire of RogerEbert.com, has dubbed it “the movie..
This adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's century-old novel brings to life a really fantastic fantasy world of wizards, dwarves, elves, dragons and all..
A film that’s just been nominated for three Golden Globes should be better than this. It’s loosely based on the true story..
edited by Matthew Barrett and Ardel. B. Caneday Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Mich. 288 pages The controversy over a traditional versus an evolutionary..
edited by Margaret Kohl. Introduction by Richard Bauckman Fortress Press, Minneapolis, Minn. 292 pages What is so encouraging about Jürgen Moltmann is..
It follows the book. That’s probably because the author of the book, Cheryl Strayed, not only co-wrote the screenplay for the movie,..
“Diplomacy” is a French film about the French’s love for Paris. But it’s told from an interesting perspective: Based on a play..
As a lifelong believer, it’s hard not to view this epic film in terms of how it diverges from the biblical account..
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