Everest is a beautiful, tragic, exciting film about the things that challenge us …

... and the things that should be left unchallenged. “For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and estimate the cost, to see whether he has enough to complete it?” – Luke 14:28 (NRSV) Jesus is speaking here about the cost of discipleship and reminding those who seek to [...]

Movie: “A Walk in the Woods” is this month’s geezer pleaser

"Since I am in my mid-sixties and rounding third in the baseball game of life, I think that perhaps it is time to say that I am already getting rather tired of films that aim to please older adults with the onscreen antics of mature adults in the throes of arrested development," comments Rev. Bruce [...]

War Room – entertaining, if somewhat simplistic, faith-based film about the power of intercessory prayer.

East Ohio movie reviewer, Rev. Bruce Batchelor-Glader says,  "the story of War Room is simple: A young professional couple (Shirer and Stallings) are enjoying all of the benefits of an upwardly mobile lifestyle. Their marriage, however, is falling apart. When Elizabeth meets Miss Clara (Karen Abercrombie), a retired widow whose house she hopes to sell, [...]