There is a very high faith-based quotient in this true story, 2015’s Woodlawn. The Jesus movement Woodlawn depicts the Jesus movement in Birmingham, Alabama, circa the 1970’s. People were converting to Jesus. In Woodlawn, the movement’s scale seems amazing. In Birmingham and at Woodlawn High School there are race problems and segregation issues. The school chaplain Hank…

The BFG (Big Friendly Giant; 2016, out now on DVD) comes with questions, but it is a journey. It’s the journey there that keeps the audience glued because we want to know the answers to the questions that we implicitly ask while watching The BFG. The first question is why Sophie is taken away by a…

There are a couple of things I’d like to hone on, but first, Arrival is about extraterrestrial visitors in twelve places across the globe. They come in black “shells”. On the ground level, the U.S. military camp on a large field. They are investigating one of the shells with the help of scientists. They can…

Florence Foster Jenkins (2016, UK), out on DVD December 13 2016 (in North America). Florence Foster Jenkins (Meryl Streep) has the advantages of being a wealthy socialite or celebrity, New York, 1944. Being wealthy gives her the ability to throw money at her passion: singing. This is the story of a socialite who is in the opportunity…

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