For Greater Glory: Catholic Filmmaking
For Greater Glory: Interesting perspective from Catholic Filmmaker on Faith and Hollywood. And it’s on Netflix streaming! http://tinyurl.com/pvlanjv The post For Greater Glory: Catholic Filmmaking...
View ArticleMan of Steel: Jesus Was an Ancient Alien?
The previous Superman movie, what was it called? What was it about again? Eh, forgettable. Except that Bryan Singer clearly played up the religious connections of Superman with Jesus. He did miracles,...
View ArticleCloud Atlas: Freedom, Dystopias, and Sex Change Operations
On DVD. As a movie fan, I have a love/detest relationship with the Wachowskis. Sometimes, they poop out very terrible pieces of excrement with bad philosophy, like V For Vendetta, and sometimes they...
View ArticleBeautiful Creatures: Ugly Monsters, Anti-Christian Hate Speech
Beautiful Creatures is a YA (young adult) paranormal romance, coming of age story about a teen, Ethan, who falls for troubled girl, Lena, who happens to be a witch. In just a matter of weeks, Lena is...
View ArticleWorld War Z: Zombies Prove the Existence of God
I love the zombie movie genre. And when I think of what great things can be done on the usual cheap zombie movie budget like a 28 Days Later, or Rec, or Mutants (the French one), it is a shame to see...
View ArticleMonsters University: Nerds, Outcasts, Oddballs (Like Me) Kick Butt
For anyone who has ever felt like they don’t belong, like they’re an outcast, or that they aren’t in the in crowd or that they don’t have that something special that others seem to have, or that they...
View ArticleQuartet: Growing Old Sucks $#!%!
Is all we have to look forward to in our twilight years, the hope for a one last curtain call? This was a cute, whimsical, and serious movie all rolled into one with some wonderful characters, drawn...
View ArticleWhite House Down: Obama as Action Hero Vs. Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
Die Hard at the White House as Obama propaganda. Okay, now you know the entire movie. Well, not really, because this movie has what Die Hard did not: An invulnerable hero, played by Channing Tatum....
View ArticleInhale: How Far Would You Go to Save Someone You Love?
Medical conspiracy thriller about organ donation on Netflix Streaming. This is a little gem of a movie about Paul Stanton (played superbly by Dermot Mulroony) and his wife Diane (Diane Kruger) who have...
View ArticleThe Lone Ranger: The Noble Savage Vs. Greedy Capitalist
Comic book action movie of the beloved hero of yesteryear and his trusty sidekick the Lone Ranger. Yes, you read that right. Tonto is really the lead in this movie, as played by Johnny Depp, who does...
View ArticleDespicable Me 2: Gru Supports Proposition 8 Traditional Marriage
Mediocre sequel to the brilliant original. Okay, it was hard to equal the original with its amazing storytelling and wonderful characters. And this one, I can’t say was captivating. Bad guy wants to...
View ArticlePacific Rim: Global Warming Causes Godzilla
Japanese Godzilla movie Hollywood style. Huge monsters created by SUV exhaust, oil pipelines, second hand smoke, and our failure to protect the California Delta Smelt. The world is being attacked by...
View ArticleIdentity Thief: A Parable About Restorative Justice, not Humanistic...
Slapstick Comedy. Jason Bateman plays Sandy Patterson, a guy with an androgynous name, whose identity is stolen by Diana played by Melissa McCarthy in another state. When he goes on a trip to try to...
View ArticleThe Conjuring: Got Demons? A Little of Jesus Goes a Long Way
Demon horror. Supposedly true story based on an incident in the 1970s about the most horrifying experience of two paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren. The Perron family with five girls...
View ArticleR.I.P.D.: Evil Must be Punished or There is No Justice
Men in Black with evil souls instead of aliens. Or Ghostbusters 2013. Ryan Reynolds plays Nick, a cop who finds himself killed in the line of duty and winds up on R.I.P.D. the Rest in Peace Department...
View ArticleThe Wolverine: Eternity is a Curse if You Have No Meaning
After seeing the previous abysmal Wolverine movie, I almost didn’t go to this one. I am just so tired of these superhero sequels that are boring trash. The first ones are often very good, Iron Man,...
View Article2 Guns: Kant Vs. Nietzsche Knockdown! 2 Good Not 2 See
A great action buddy cop flick about two undercover agents who stumble upon corruption in the CIA, the Navy, and the DEA, and pretty much everywhere. I have not seen such a rewarding and funny action...
View ArticleElysium: A Preachy Apologetic for Obamacare
Marxist Utopian Tale told by Greedy Hollywood Capitalists. Coming from writer/director Blomkamp, whose District 9 was agitprop for illegal alien activism, and Matt “Elmer Gantry of Leftism” Damon, one...
View ArticleThe Host: Collectivism Vs. Individualism
A flaccid futuristic dystopian morality tale. Another kind of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. If it were not for the phenomenally talented acting of Saorise Ronan, this movie would be terribly boring...
View ArticleJobs: Visionary as Obsessive Narcissistic A$$h*!e Changes the World
A biopic about Apple. What? You thought it was about Steve Jobs? Well, it is – technically — but watching the movie gives one the impression that it is more about the image and concept of the...
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