Be the Message (Shook & Shook, 2014)
Kerry and Chris Shook's conversational, observational new book is worth pausing to recommend for one big reason.
With "American Sniper," Clint Eastwood has created a movie of integrity, exploring the nature of American manhood and the costs of war.
From start to finish, this was the best, well-crafted episode of the pilots and has so much potential; it wouldn't be a surprise for this to be something really special for Amazon.
The unusual chemistry between them is passable, if again, not very remarkable.
The film that writer/director Corbin Bernsen name checks in his video introduction is Sleepless in Seattle. My philosophy is that you respect a film most, Christian or otherwise, by approaching it on its own terms. Based on that philosophy, Christian Mingle is first and foremost a Romantic Comedy and only secondarily a Christian film.
Human Capital ("Il capitale umano") is a cross between Crash and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth.
Virtue, venality, and vocation are all abundantly on display in "Virunga," a suspense-filled Netflix documentary on warring oil and conservation interests in Congo.
Mid-Season hiatuses can always be a tricky thing. Sometimes they leave viewers anticipating a show's return and other times they leave too much room for the show to be forgotten about.
These two documentaries, now available for home viewing, offer interesting profiles of Nat Hentoff and George Takei, two American icons who effectively blend their involvement in the worlds of entertainment and civil rights activism.
Ten years before Peter Jackson stretched a simple story into three movies, he stretched a simple movie into three hours.