THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST has gotten rave reviews and won kudos at the Cannes Film Festival last year. This is surprising for two reasons. One, it is almost like a home movie, although it is very winsome. Two, it is unabashedly pro-Christian and pro-Salvation Army. The movie opens on a train with a man rolling a cigarette. He gets off in Helsinki, walks to a park bench and falls asleep on his suitcase. Three gang members come up and take CLOCKWORK… Continue reading
…and Director of the Center for Marriage and Religion Research, Family Research Council, Washington, D.C. The author acknowledges his debt to Drs. Jill Manning, Stephanie Sargeant-Weaver and James B. Weaver III without whose reviews of the literature, Senate Testimonies and pointers towards the underlying studies he could not have prepared this paper. Their work suffuses the whole project. These reviews include Jill C. Manning, “The Impact of In… Continue reading
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…lence in this big screen adaptation. TOY STORY 3 June 18 The toys are back in town. After over a decade from the release of the first movie that put Pixar on the map, Woody and Buzz are off on a new adventure. You can read reviews from TOY STORY and TOY STORY 2. TOY STORY and TOY STORY 2 each won Movieguide®’s Crystal Teddy Award for Best Family Movie. KNIGHT & DAY June 25 Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz team up in this action comed… Continue reading
THE BASKET is a redemptive masterpiece. This small movie, made in Spokane Washington of all places, is drawing rave reviews from everyone. Like THE STRAIGHT STORY and THE WINSLOW BOY, it tackles tough human conditions and resolves them with a redemptive grace. Unlike those two films, this movie was done by first timers, much like THE SPITFIRE GRILL, though without some of the foul language in that film. When the lead actor, Peter Coyote, stepped… Continue reading
Yet Another: Mission Impossible 5 By Evy Baehr, associate editor of MOVIEGUIDE® Tom Cruise says “yes” to yet another Mission Impossible movie. This makes for the fifth Mission Impossible movie in the successful movie franchise. Overall, Movieguide has given the MI movies positive reviews. And – 3 of the 4 movies have earned a Movieguide® Award! Check out these Movieguide® reviews: MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE MISSION: IMPOSSIB… Continue reading
…dall Wallace had a stubborn notion that if everyone agreed with him, he could be pretty sure he was wrong! Use Disappointments as Springboards Randall went on to write his second novel, SO LATE INTO THE NIGHT. It got terrific reviews. One reviewer gushed, “It is elegant prose, reminiscent of the best of Robert Penn Warren” Another, Edwin Yoder, compared Wallace’s work to that of Charles Dickens. “Yes, it got great rev… Continue reading
During the early and mid 1950s, Italian neo-realist movies were the darling of American critics, then came Japanese live action movies, the French New Wave, the British, the Germans, the Australians, and now Japanese animation, or anim=E9. Drawing rave reviews for sumptuous animation, and earning more money in Japan than any other movie except for TITANIC, PRINCESS MONONOKE is Japanese mythology animated. To understand the Japanese worldview, at… Continue reading
…ot trust the MPAA ratings system. You have to know before your children go. Ask a fellow parent whose judgment you trust if they have seen it. Ask around. But, the sure fire way is to go to www.movieguide.org to check out the reviews of the latest movie releases from Hollywood. All reviews are free when the movie is new to the theaters. After that they are in our Internet Archive, which can be accessed for only $2 a month - a real help when you o… Continue reading
…much more information and useful tips about this vital issue, and many more topics, please be sure to read THE CULTURE-WISE FAMILY by Dr. Ted Baehr and Pat Boone, available here. Also, please check back daily for the latest reviews of the latest movies. MOVIEGUIDE® also has reviews of more than 4,000 movies, videos and television programs of the recent past and from the Golden Age of Hollywood. … Continue reading
