…e’ll have a link to Dr. Baehr’s book The Culture-Wise Family along with a link to the movieguide.org website. What a great tool that is for parents. Ryan It really is. We’re also playing some of their movie reviews at familytalk.org — right there on our home page, so you know exactly what you’re going to get when you plop down that cash to treat your family to a movie. Louann Dr. Ted Baehr’s team has also compiled… Continue reading
…ould harm his brain. Thus, the theme of the fallenness of man and the need for salvation runs throughout the movie, and it is this theme that is appealing to audiences, including the secular reviewers who have written glowing reviews without addressing the spiritual side of the movie. GEORGE WASHINGTON is a small film that will probably not reach big audiences. It had trouble finding a distributor. The audiences that would respond to its spiritua… Continue reading
With a sweet ending, CRAZY/BEAUTIFUL is going to grab some good reviews, even from some so-called family reviewers. Once upon a time, to avoid the motion picture code, movie studios tacked on redemptive or crime-doesn’t-pay endings at the end of vile movies. This became such a common practice that reviewers became wise to the trick and refused to fall for it. And, parents should not fall for it here. The message in the movie is that finding love… Continue reading
…alking her? Is it the black student she’s tutoring, who has an obvious crush on her? Or, could it even be Michael, who Frannie thinks she glimpsed getting a sexual favor at the Red Turtle on the night in question? The ads and reviews describe IN THE CUT as an erotic thriller, but it’s more like sleazy softcore pornography. Both main characters are extremely unlikable. Furthermore, director Jane Campion, who co-wrote the script with the novelist,… Continue reading
Most reviews of HAPPENSTANCE, a light, quirky French comedy, probably will not mention its strong occult elements, which include astrology and tarot cards. Instead, they are likely to focus on the movie’s theme of fate and coincidence governing people’s lives. In spite of the movie’s pagan, occult worldview, it steals an idea from Christianity, that all the things we do, including the very little things, make an important impact on our lives and… Continue reading
Inuit director Zecharias Kunuk is from Igloolik, which if you look at a map of Canada is about as far away from a movie theater as you can possibly get. Therefore, it is amazing that he has made a very compelling movie in THE FAST RUNNER – so much so that it has received rave reviews. The story opens in a tiny Eskimo village where everything is white except for the brown parkas. Even the sky is a whitish blue. One of the men is not a good… Continue reading
Clint Eastwood’s new movie J. EDGAR is another left-wing attempt to spit on the grave of FBI founder and director J. Edgar Hoover. It’s a biased representation, written by a left-wing homosexual activist in Hollywood, of Hoover’s public and private life that obviously hasn’t done the true due diligence required for such a movie. It’s too bad that Clint Eastwood apparently fell for the left-wing smears against Hoover. Radical extremists, includin… Continue reading
…me target audience that made FIREPROOF a hit in 2008. However, while that film was a hit, many films aimed at churchgoers also struggle at the box office, and very few find crossover success. The film currently only has two reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, but this is a critic-proof film. It is only playing in 1,000 theaters, so reaching the top five is probably out of the question. It could also bomb and miss the top ten. Seventh place with $6 m… Continue reading
…in the story, a few words and actions by the cameos simply appeared unmotivated by reason. Gary Busey as a highway patrolman asks Raoul for a kiss. Why? It didn’t make any sense. FEAR AND LOATHING has not received good reviews from the secular press. It seems that even those who may appreciate the depravity of the late 20th Century find this story unpalatable and loathsome. Though perhaps appreciated by some fans of the book, this movie wi… Continue reading
In the Mexican movie, AMORES PERROS, filmmaking has literally gone to the dogs! Yes, this film has been receiving critically acclaimed reviews, winning awards and prizes and blowing them away on the International film festival circuit. Yes, it is a well made, well told, well directed, and well acted movie. And, yes it does have something to say. What’s important for moviegoers to understand is knowing just what they are going to have to go throu… Continue reading
