Photo: 20th Century Fox Film Movie Review by Rev. Bruce Batchelor-Glader Never judge a musical by its title or its opening number. The Greatest Showman was certainly not P. T. Barnum (Hugh Jackman), who was more of a huckster in real life than the man depicted onscreen. The first song is rather underwhelming, featuring a [...]
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I, Tonya – when a film promises so much alternative truth, how can you be bothered?
By Rev. Bruce Batchelor-Glader Photo: NEON While older adults will remember the scandal of the 1994 U. S. Figure Skating Championship when skater Nancy Kerrigan (Caitlin Carver) was injured in an attack eventually connected with skater Tonya Harding (Robbie) and her husband Jeff Gillooly (Sebastian Stan), these events will be news to a younger audience who [...]
Movie: The Post “offers up a tale of civil disobedience for the sake of doing what is right”
Movie Review by Rev. Bruce Batchelor-Glader If The Post had been made about twenty years ago (still many years after 1971 when the events depicted first took place), its story would still pack a punch. The film does an excellent job recounting a landmark case that was the talk of the nation at the time [...]
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