Sex, Death and Bowling (Walker, 2015)
Adrian Grenier almost always charms in charming movies.
Adrian Grenier almost always charms in charming movies.
The Ballet Boys (★★½) doesn’t quite hold our attention as strongly as First Position, but it should nevertheless please its target audience. The film focuses on the high-school experiences of… Continue reading "The Ballet Boys (Elvebakk, 2015)"
"I want my dad in my life, but I grew up with addicts..."
I started to write that it took me a week to decide whether or not I liked Sleeping with Other People (★★), Leslye Headland's Millenial riff on When Harry Met Sally, but that wasn't true. It took me a week to accept and come to terms with the fact that I didn't.
To those who are like me, who were always taught that God does not intend for the Ark to be found and any attempt to locate it is a challenge to God, there is a surprise in how much enjoyment and illumination can be gained from Brent Baum’s documentary, Finding Noah: An Adventure of Faith.
While it is not as accomplished and polished as Do The Right Thing, The Sixth Sense, or Reservoir Dogs--films that announced the arrival of a major new talent--Boiling Pot is certainly good enough to land the Ashmaweys on my "keep an eye out for what they do next" list.
Jesse is a young, average-looking, bald guy trying to make it in Hollywood.
These days when I watch a new Christian movie, my first question is usually: who is the intended audience?
Our Last Tango would be worth watching, if only for the dance sequences.
The Man Who Saved the World begins with an epigraph from Mark 8:36: “For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul.”