Documentary, On DVD, Netflix Streaming, Amazon Instant Video, iTunes, Google Play and other streaming services. Tom Shadyac, comedy writer and director of Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, The Nutty Professor, and Bruce Almighty, has a serious bicycle accident, suffers a concussion with painful side effects, and begins a spiritual quest for the meaning of life. Shadyac [...]
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Movie: Starred Up – tough stuff, hard to watch but profoundly moving
"Starred Up manages to make these scarred men characters that you care about. O’Connell and Mendelsohn give great performances that are full of rage and regret, with forces that push them both against and towards one another. This film is currently available only by streaming, but I imagine it may find a few screens in [...]
Film: The Giver is a response to the Genesis story of the Garden of Eden
"In the Bible, Adam and Eve are cast out of Paradise due to their willful breaking of the law. In The Giver, we find a society that does everything it can to enforce Paradise and a way of life in which the thwarting of the good is not even considered. For Christians, this is a [...]