Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Frodo & 3 Hobbit friends join with Gandolf & others to return an evil ring to a distant mountain & destroy it before the villain can seize it.
Frodo & 3 Hobbit friends join with Gandolf & others to return an evil ring to a distant mountain & destroy it before the villain can seize it.
French Canadian filmmaker writer-director François Girard, who gave us the exquisite The Red Violin in 1998, gives us another film in which a violin is important. Instead of transpiring over several centuries, this film spans the years from Hitler’s invasion of Poland to the night of a concert in 1951 to the 80s when a …
A must-see movie for fans of The Lord of the Rings. Click the movie title to read my entire review.
An 11 year-old orphan raised by cruel relatives discovers at wizard’s school that he is the son of famous parents & must face the being that killed them.
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V -6; L -1; S/N -1. Running time: 2 hour 49 min. Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or take the path that sinners tread, or sit in the seat of scoffers; but their delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his …
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V- 5; L- 0; S/N-1. Running time: 1 hour 54 min. Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd …
Rated G . Our ratings: V-1; L- 0; S/N-1. Running time: 1 hour 53 min. For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted… Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 Do …
Bayard Rustin was a genius at organizing mass events, but few Americans know anything about him–and this is just what the makers of the new Netflix film RUSTIN hope to correct. For details of his exciting story, I refer you to my review, found elsewhere on this site. What I want to address here is …
Continue reading “Bayard Rustin: Slowly Emerging from the Shadows”
“The forgotten” man’s story who organized the March on Washington & taught MLK nonviolence is told in photos, archival footage & interviews.
Although I always look forward to the new films that the next month brings to us, I am especially excited about the two coming in November–JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM and RUSTIN. When I saw the first email announcing Journey, my reaction was, “Why another film of this familiar story? We already have The Nativity Story, a very well-made …