Post Tagged 'movie review'

October 30, 2021

Discovering human dignity in Villeneuve’s Dune

With an opening weekend revenue of $41 million, director Denis Villeneuve’s Part 1 of his adaptation of Frank Herbert’s science fiction classic Dune has succeeded in getting Warner Bros. to greenlight Part 2, set for a 2023 release. Continue Reading...

December 28, 2018

The 5 deep spiritual reasons we love ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’

Over the last century no movie has been more synonymous with the Christmas season than It’s a Wonderful Life. It endures, more than seven decades after its release, because it strikes at least five deep spiritual chords in every human heart. Continue Reading...

February 27, 2017

Movie review: ‘The Founder,’ Schumpeter, and the entrepreneur

Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty made a mistake of historic proportions at the 2017 Academy Awards, when they mistakenly awarded the Oscar for “Best Picture” to La La Land. They should have awarded it to The Founder, the new biopic about McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc which, alas, did not garner any Oscar nominations. Continue Reading...

June 04, 2009

Film Review: Taking Chance

Lieutenant Colonel Mike Strobl began his 2004 essay “Taking Chance” by saying, “Chance Phelps was wearing his Saint Christopher medal when he was killed on Good Friday. Eight days later, I handed the medallion to his mother. Continue Reading...