The Fix 2024 - Movies (Nov 22nd)
Genie 2023 - Movies (Nov 22nd)
Armor 2024 - Movies (Nov 22nd)
Remnant 2024 - Movies (Nov 22nd)
Blitz 2024 - Movies (Nov 22nd)
Woman of the Hour 2023 - Movies (Nov 22nd)
Godzilla Minus One 2023 - Movies (Nov 21st)
Love Lies Bleeding 2024 - Movies (Nov 21st)
Parallel 2024 - Movies (Nov 21st)
Gladiator II 2024 - Movies (Nov 21st)
Paddington in Peru 2024 - Movies (Nov 21st)
Surveilled 2024 - Movies (Nov 21st)
Free LSD 2023 - Movies (Nov 20th)
Speak No Evil 2024 - Movies (Nov 20th)
Reagan 2024 - Movies (Nov 20th)
Searching for a Serial Killer The Regina Smith Story 2024 - Movies (Nov 20th)
The Mystery of Mr. E 2023 - Movies (Nov 20th)
Nugget Is Dead A Christmas Story 2024 - Movies (Nov 20th)
Repentance 2023 - Movies (Nov 20th)
Shadows Side 2024 - Movies (Nov 20th)
Baby Steps 2023 - Movies (Nov 20th)
Empresses in the Palace - (Nov 22nd)
TNA iMPACT - (Nov 22nd)
The Creep Tapes - (Nov 22nd)
Someday at a Place in the Sun - (Nov 22nd)
Crime Scene Kitchen - (Nov 22nd)
Landward - (Nov 22nd)
Ant Anstead- Born Mechanic - (Nov 22nd)
The Impact- Atlanta - (Nov 22nd)
The Real Housewives of Orange County - (Nov 22nd)
Gardening Australia - (Nov 22nd)
Outlander - (Nov 22nd)
Hells Kitchen - (Nov 22nd)
House of Villains - (Nov 22nd)
The Last Word with Lawrence ODonnell - (Nov 22nd)
Off Shoot - (Nov 22nd)
Disasterinas My Drag Is Valid - (Nov 22nd)
Canadas Drag Race - (Nov 22nd)
Found - (Nov 22nd)
Alex Wagner Tonight - (Nov 22nd)
Law and Order- Special Victims Unit - (Nov 22nd)
**_Great filmmaking, cast and locations, but strangely inert (overlong) story_** Released in late 2016 and directed by Martin Scorsese based on the novel by Shûsaku Endô, "Silence" chronicles events in 1640 when two Jesuit priests (Andrew Garfield & Adam Driver) journey to Japan to check on the persecuted church and find out what happened to their mentor, whom it is rumored fell from the faith (Liam Neeson). Issei Ogata is on hand as the sadistic, but seemingly reasonable Japanese inquisitor. The Jesuits were a society of Catholic missionaries started in 1540 in response to the spreading evangelism of the Protestant reformers. They were an essential part of the Roman counter-Reformation. With this in mind, the seeming Christianity portrayed in the movie is decidedly Catholic in nature, with the requisite unbiblical stuff, like confessions to priests, icons, rosary beads, etc. In tone and theme, "Silence" is reminiscent of movies like the excellent "Black Robe" (1991), the solid "The Mission" (1986) and the surprisingly great "Black Death" (see my review). There are also elements of "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957). If you appreciate any of these films you might appreciate "Silence," but it didn't work for me. Sure, Scorsese is a great auteur and so the filmmaking is top-of-the-line – the cinematography, the cast, the costuming, locations and score. Unfortunately, the story's not compelling and I never connected with the main character, despite Garfield's quality performance. There's some worthy mindfood (or spiritfood) to glean from the proceedings, however, like: Why does God allow the excruciating persecution of His faithful? Why is He silent? IS He silent? Can a believer be restored after cowardly denying the Lord in the face of torture/death? Can a Christian hide their faith while living in a thoroughly hostile culture? But I didn't buy for a second that the Japanese couldn't conceive of a Deity that transcends physical nature, like the sun, sea or mountain. While the idea may have been alien to their communal mindset at the time, it's absurd to think that no individual man or woman could discern the obvious (see Psalm 19:1 & Romans 1:20). Although I'm sorta glad I saw it, "Silence" is curiously dull and overlong; and so I never care to see it again. There are far superior movies that tackle similar topics. Those who give it the highest possible rating must be fanatical devotees of Scorsese. The movie runs 161 minutes and was shot in Taiwan and the Cathedral Of Saint Paul In Macau, China. GRADE: C-
"Grandmother" is a highly romanticized autobiographical novel by a Czech 19th century writer, Bozena Nemcova. It's a classical, compulsory reading in Czech schools, about a wise, working-class woman, happier in her simplicity and good heart than the nobles whom she serves.
Hideo Suzuki is a 35-year-old mangaka assistant, whose life seem to be stuck around his exhausting but low-paying job, unfulfilled dreams, strange hallucinations and unsatisfying relationships. He sees himself as a supporting character in his own life, has low self-esteem, resulting in frustration. One day, the world as Hideo knows it is shattered by the presence of a disease that turns people into homicidal maniacs, whose first instinct is to attack and devour the nearest human.
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because they were music hall artists, "entertainers". But because he's the sole legatee of an uncle's fortune, his relatives become friendly with him.. at least for a while.
20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. It is supposed to be about aggressive behavior in an artificial prison situation. A journalist senses a story behind the ad and smuggles himself in among the test subjects. They are randomly divided into prisoners and guards. What seems like a game at the beginning soon turns into bloody seriousness.
Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is forced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary.
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.
"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.
Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.