Silence raises all kinds of provocative questions of faith. What does it mean to claim Christ as Lord? Would you hold onto your personal faith if you could save a dozen lives by simply going through the motions of apostasy? How many times should you forgive someone? How do you persuade people of another faith [...]
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Movie review: Fences
Playwright August Wilson gives us these rich characters and allows us to observe them in beautifully written dialogue filled with humor and occasional joy, but haunted by the past and life’s inequities and challenges. Fences is a 1987 Pulitzer Prize winning play and Director-Actor Denzel Washington uses the cast from the 2010 Broadway revival in [...]
Movie: Hello, “My Name Is Doris” – an entertaining character study
Photo By Roadside Attractions "Director-writer Michael Showalter gives Sally Field plenty of room to inhabit this character, with outrageous and colorful clothing to accompany her wistful dreams. Field has compared this role to Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp and she shows us real joy as well as the melancholy of a person who may have postponed [...]