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Catholic visionary Maria Valtorta quoted Jesus as saying, "I am wherever there is life or a manifestation of life. Wherever a wise man meditates, a sculptor sculpts, a poet writes, ... I am there together with Him from Whom I come. ... I am there with the Most High Creator" (333).
John W. Whitehead, on "GOD AND FILM" writes, "In this chaotic age, people are increasingly seeking something outside themselves to give order and meaning to their lives. While painting once tackled these questions, modern film now addresses this search, which inevitably includes the subject of God. Of all the artistic forms throughout the ages, film may be the most suitable forum for the discussion of religion and God" (267).
If Jesus is in all works of art, and especially in film, then movies should yield that influence through comparison with the Bible. Such I have tried to do in these my reviews, updated weekly, by including an Ideology section in each of them. I don't have a particular point to make other than finding a biblical comparison most apropos to the material.
I follow standard content ratings for a Christian in line with (I Cor. 10:27-28) "If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake. But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof." The feast in this case is a movie and the invite is per age group and/or caution. If you're disposed to see it and are old enough or receiving guidance, be my guest and just ignore the objectionable parts. Don't get all worked up over what's best ignored.
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| Title | Year | Rating | Stars | Description |
| Adrift | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | Two young bohemians meet in Xanadu, fall in island love, swing a sailing gig, and crew a crippled ghost boat. The book deal turned into this movie. |
| Black Panther | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | Some third-world African kings and pretenders duke it out while in possession of the world's most valuable rocks. News to the CIA. Old news to the UFO's. |
| Breaking In | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆★ | Four surprised crooks, two child hostages, and one queen bee mix it up on an isolated estate. Desperate moves are called for. |
| The Commuter | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A genuine ride. Life goes terribly wrong for an unsung commuter. If only Liam Neeson were there to save the day. |
| Den of Thieves | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | Cocky criminal masterminds hit the Fed Reserve Bank in L.A. while being surveilled by Major Crimes Hotshots. Bullets do fly. |
| The First Purge | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | Beta testing an experimental 12 hour suspension of law and order on Staten Island. On live TV with dead participants. |
| Game Nite | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | Three game-addicted couples & odd neighbor or bro mix it up on game night to play Murder We Wrote. Some of the players aren't acting. Some of the guns shoot real bullets. |
| Hotel Artemis | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | A hospital for wounded criminals has an upswing in admissions during the 2028 L.A. riots. Personalities clash, power fails, and a hitwoman executes her plan. |
| Hunter Killer | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | The hot line is kaput, the subs are sunk, the SEALs are disavowed, and the new skipper is leading a merry chase. DEFCON ONE, anyone? |
| The Hurricane Heist | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | Ambitious crooks hit a Federal Treasury facility during a super storm. An inside man and a cooperative blow guarantee their success, but tenacious patriots interfere. |
| Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom |
2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | An awakening volcano on Isla Nublar threatens to drive the dinosaurs extinct - again. U.S. Congress debates catastrophe, dinosaur advocates attempt liberation, and animal traffickers cash in. |
| Maze Runner 3 | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | A fast-paced teen-heroes action flick cum medical thriller. Apocalyptic overtones. Third of a trilogy. |
| The Meg | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | A disgraced, divorced, and disenfranchised deep sea diver redeems himself fighting the sea monster of his nightmares. I-told-you-so on steroids. |
| Mile 22 | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | Clandestine organization Overwatch ops make a run at delivering an asset to an extraction plane 22 miles away in a hostile city, along contested roads, and under a ticking clock. Failure is not an option. |
| Mission Impossible 6 | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆☆ | An out-of-favor Ethan Hunt leads his IMF team (what's left of them) on a deadly chase to secure three Plutonium cores before what survived of The Syndicate gets them. A shell game of spies. |
| Ocean's Eight | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | Released feloness gathers seven hustlers to snatch a prized necklace at the Met Gala. Makes it look easy. |
| Overlord | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | A small band of Allied paratroopers landing in occupied France to prepare for D-Day find their target infested with Nazi super-soldiers. This experimental batch isn't stable. |
| Peppermint | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | A drug-crazed LA social scene sprouts a revenge-driven mama. She's an angel to some. |
| The Predator (2018) | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆☆ | Hybrid space "predators" drop into a small town on Halloween night and share goodies and frights with escapees from a loony bus. An autistic kid speaks their language. |
| Rampage | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | A video-game–derived creature feature. A reclusive gorilla whisperer and a brilliant geneticist join forces to try to save Chicago & an infected ape before the army bombs them all to smithereens. |
| Ready Player One | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | VR game maven stretches himself to score the grand prize while getting distracted by a virtual chick. Or is it a Chuck? |
| Robin Hood Adventures | 1938 | PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | Well-known English medieval legend springs to life on the big screen. Well-worn plot never grows old. Much vigorous swordplay. |
| Robin Hood (2018) | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | A returned crusader lord disguised with a hood robs from the rich and gives to the poor in merry old England. Against much opposition. |
| Samson | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | A reluctant longhaired superhero with a heart to the ladies is selected to judge Israel and squash the domineering Philistines or die trying. |
| The Spy Who Dumped Me |
2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | Two artless citizens get chased around Europe by mysterious bad guys associated with the boyfriend of one of them. Turns out he's a spy. |
| Upgrade | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A techno throwback loses his progressive wife and is aided by an AI implant to avenge her death. Cutting edge technology at its scariest. |
| Title | Year | Rating | Stars | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adrift | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | Two young bohemians meet in Xanadu, fall in island love, swing a sailing gig, and crew a crippled ghost boat. The book deal turned into this movie. |
| Black Panther | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | Some third-world African kings and pretenders duke it out while in possession of the world's most valuable rocks. News to the CIA. Old news to the UFO's. |
| Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween |
2018 | PG | ☆☆☆☆ | A college-bound senior, her science-minded brother, and their holiday-ready neighbor(s) have a spooky Halloween when the overworked mom gets attached to the props. Electrifying! |
| Holmes and Watson | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | A thumbnail sketch of the life of Sherlock Holmes showing how his reputation was improved by his association with Dr. Watson. America had an influence, too. |
| Hostiles | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆★ | The American character was forged by hostile Indians, hostile environment, and hostile politics, with a bit of optimism and Yankee know-how thrown in. One man's journey depicted here. |
| Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom |
2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | An awakening volcano on Isla Nublar threatens to drive the dinosaurs extinct - again. U.S. Congress debates catastrophe, dinosaur advocates attempt liberation, and animal traffickers cash in. |
| Lost Horizon | 1937 | PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | While the world teeters on the brink of war and diplomats despair, a forgotten Belgian priest invites an outsider to partake of his idyllic community. |
| Mile 22 | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | Clandestine organization Overwatch ops make a run at delivering an asset to an extraction plane 22 miles away in a hostile city, along contested roads, and under a ticking clock. Failure is not an option. |
| Moonrise Kingdom | 2012 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆☆ | In an insular island community about to be blasted by a storm, two troubled twelve-year-olds band together, elude pursuers, and flaunt authority. More power to them. |
| Mission Impossible 6 | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆☆ | An out-of-favor Ethan Hunt leads his IMF team (what's left of them) on a deadly chase to secure three Plutonium cores before what survived of The Syndicate gets them. A shell game of spies. |
| Only Angels Have Wings | 1939 | NR | ☆☆☆☆☆ | In the glory days of aviation, a remote South American way station attracts daredevil pilots and their groupies. An air transport company works hard to secure a contract while the women work hard to land their men. |
| Overlord | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | A small band of Allied paratroopers landing in occupied France to prepare for D-Day find their target infested with Nazi super-soldiers. This experimental batch isn't stable. |
| The Predator (2018) | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆☆ | Hybrid space "predators" drop into a small town on Halloween night and share goodies and frights with escapees from a loony bus. An autistic kid speaks their language. |
| Rampage | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | A video-game–derived creature feature. A reclusive gorilla whisperer and a brilliant geneticist join forces to try to save Chicago & an infected ape before the army bombs them all to smithereens. |
| Ready Player One | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | VR game maven stretches himself to score the grand prize while getting distracted by a virtual chick. Or is it a Chuck? |
| Robin Hood Adventures | 1938 | PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | Well-known English medieval legend springs to life on the big screen. Well-worn plot never grows old. Much vigorous swordplay. |
| Robin Hood (2018) | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | A returned crusader lord disguised with a hood robs from the rich and gives to the poor in merry old England. Against much opposition. |
| The Sisters Brothers | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | The old west is changing and two brothers, guns for hire, must change with it or face extinction. Out of the frying pan into the fire. |
| Title | Year | Rating | Stars | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Bible (Genesis) | 1966 | none | ☆☆☆☆ | An epic Sunday School story depiction of the first twenty-two chapters of Genesis. |
| Darkest Hour | 2017 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | When the Nazi hammer is about to fall on Great Britain, a plodding cabinet member proves to be the man of the hour to lead the nation. |
| Green Book | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | A wop factotum escorts an ace coon on a music tour of the deep south in the 1960s at the fag end of segregation. They go by the book. |
| The Life of Emile Zola | 1937 | G | ☆☆☆☆ | A famous French author of the 19th century goes from struggling artist to successful writer only to, later in life, get embroiled in intrigue once more when he publishes a letter to the President defending an innocent soldier who'd been wrongly convicted of treason. |
| Il Postino | 1994 | PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A postman's eye is captured by a village barmaid, and in residence on his route lives a reclusive love poet. The left hand washes the right. |
| The Wolfpack | 2015 | R | ☆☆☆ | An inside out fairy tale where the wolf huffs and puffs and blows out the door from the inside. Captivating. |
| Young Mr. Lincoln | 1939 | NR | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A series of anecdotes about the young man Abraham Lincoln: experiences and influences as he heads towards his life calling. |
| Title | Year | Rating | Stars | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Analyze This | 1999 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | A family-practice shrink analyzes a mob boss with a girlish disposition. It's professional suicide for both if this gets out. The feds and a fiancee have their say, too. |
| The Band's Visit | 2007 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Egyptian musical ambassadors play a poky town in Israel named Hope. |
| Blockers | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆★ | High school is a done deal / adulthood is now real / and prom night's a real thrill / if mom and dad will stop / parental overkill. |
| Bull Durham | 1988 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | Trailing Durham Bulls acquire a rookie pitcher with a million dollar arm and a five cent brain. Under the tutelage of a seasoned catcher and influence of a heady main squeeze, he blossoms. |
| Crazy Rich Asians | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | A Chinese-American economics professor accompanies her Singapore boyfriend home to attend his best friend's wedding. Their respective families trace different paths. |
| Destry Rides Again | 1939 | TV-PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A lawless western town known for its "promiscuous shooting" is tackled by a famous lawman's son who relies more on his repartee than a six-shooter. Who will have the last laugh? |
| Downsizing | 2017 | R | ☆☆☆ | Miniaturized humans to solve the world's overpopulation problem. You wish. |
| Easy Living | 1937 | TV-PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | Compounded misunderstandings about a sable coat disrupt a tycoon's married life and New York's financial district. No good deed goes unpunished. Chaos rules. |
| Game Nite | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | Three game-addicted couples & odd neighbor or bro mix it up on game night to play Murder We Wrote. Some of the players aren't acting. Some of the guns shoot real bullets. |
| Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween |
2018 | PG | ☆☆☆☆ | A college-bound senior, her science-minded brother, and their holiday-ready neighbor(s) have a spooky Halloween when the overworked mom gets attached to the props. Electrifying! |
| The Great Dictator | 1940 | G | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A shell-shocked German trooper from WWI resumes barbering, commences courtship, and gives a stand-in speech. Here, here! |
| The Great McGinty | 1940 | Cert | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A reformed politico and a bent banker commiserate in a tavern. The janitor shares their history. |
| Green Book | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | A wop factotum escorts an ace coon on a music tour of the deep south in the 1960s at the fag end of segregation. They go by the book. |
| The Grinch | 2018 | PG | ☆☆☆☆ | The mean Grinch hatches a plan to steal Christmas from the unwary Whos, but a kindhearted Who-child touches his heart. |
| His Girl Friday | 1940 | Cert. | ☆☆☆☆☆ | Newspaper editor entices his ex-wife/former employee back to work a scoop, hoping to re-marry her. Her new fiance waits in the wings. |
| Holmes and Watson | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | A thumbnail sketch of the life of Sherlock Holmes showing how his reputation was improved by his association with Dr. Watson. America had an influence, too. |
| Life of the Party | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | A dumped housewife joins her daughter to finish college together. The old girl is a hit, college has gotten strange, and the hubby's upgraded style shows some slippage. |
| The Magician | 1958 | NR | ☆☆☆☆ | A troupe of 19th century carnies hemmed in by the law must pull a do-or-die trick out of the hat to survive. Science rules. |
| The Maiden Heist | 2009 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | Three aging, museum security guards reroute their favorite curios rather than see them shipped overseas. Made-in-Boston fakes take their place. |
| Moonrise Kingdom | 2012 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆☆ | In an insular island community about to be blasted by a storm, two troubled twelve-year-olds band together, elude pursuers, and flaunt authority. More power to them. |
| My Favorite Wife | 1940 | G/PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A big city lawyer remarries after his long missing wife is declared legally dead. When she shows up on their honeymoon, problems ensue. Big time. |
| My Man Godfrey | 1936 | NR | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A derelict gets a job as a rich family's butler and does better than expected. There's more to him than meets the eye. |
| Ninotchka | 1939 | US TV-G | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A special envoy from Moscow comes to Paris to facilitate the sale of state confiscated jewels, contested by their former female owner whose main man has designs on the dish. Red rhetoric meets big blarney. |
| Nothing Sacred | 1937 | TV-PG | ☆☆☆☆ | This screwball comedy spares no one. A Cinderella story where the fairy godmother is the wicked witch of the west. A whirlwind tour de force takes an unprepossessing Vermont charmer to the big city lights where her wishes all come true in the worst possible way. Zany! |
| Ocean's Eight | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | Released feloness gathers seven hustlers to snatch a prized necklace at the Met Gala. Makes it look easy. |
| Overboard | 1987 | PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | Variation on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. Lives of the Rich and Famous meet lives of the poor and infamous. Good lessons to be learned by all. Can true love triumph? |
| Overboard | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | Love/hate at first slight. Pretty young working widow mom turns tables on rich playboy cad when the latter falls into the deep and awakes sans memory or anyone to claim him. |
| Paint Your Wagon | 1969 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | Low brow comedy set in an all-male town soon to be colonized by women of easy virtue. How low will it go? |
| The Philadelphia Story | 1940 | G | ☆☆☆☆☆ | An ex-husband introduces a couple gossip columnists to the family of his ex-wife on the eve of her upcoming wedding day. The party is a real deal-breaker. |
| Il Postino | 1994 | PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A postman's eye is captured by a village barmaid, and in residence on his route lives a reclusive love poet. The left hand washes the right. |
| A Serious Man | 2009 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | A Minnesota Jew in 1967 struggles amidst building pressures to make sense of an unrewarding life. Not going to happen. |
| Shall We Dance? | 1996 | PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A middle aged Japanese accountant relieves the tedium of his humdrum life by taking up ballroom dancing on the sly. His wife is onto him. |
| The Sisters Brothers | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | The old west is changing and two brothers, guns for hire, must change with it or face extinction. Out of the frying pan into the fire. |
| Songs from 2nd Floor | 2000 | NR | ☆☆☆☆ | Changes are happening in Sweden at the dawn of the new millennium and it's difficult for some to relinquish the old. Not just in Sweden. |
| Sorry to Bother You | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | An upwardly mobile Negro on a winning streak risks losing his girl for his success. There's plenty of room at the bottom. |
| The Spy Who Dumped Me |
2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | Two artless citizens get chased around Europe by mysterious bad guys associated with the boyfriend of one of them. Turns out he's a spy. |
| Stage Door | 1937 | (PG) | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A coterie of theater neophytes (and one maven) occupy a Manhattan boarding house for women waiting for their big breaks. Lots of spicy dialogue. One ringer. |
| Synecdoche, New York | 2008 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | A middle-aged theater director moves to the Big Apple to create his magnum opus only to find he's bit off more than he can chew. His wife has deserted him. His daughter is gone. |
| Super Troopers 2 | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | Disgraced troopers who couldn't color between the lines reprise themselves to patrol a no-man's land between movable U.S.-Canadian borders. Diplomacy is not their strong suit. |
| Upgrade | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆ | A techno throwback loses his progressive wife and is aided by an AI implant to avenge her death. Cutting edge technology at its scariest. |
| Vanya on 42nd St | 1994 | PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | New York actors rehearse Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' in a dilapidated theatre sans trappings. David Mamet's modern adaptation of the play. |
| Wise Blood | 1979 | PG | ☆☆☆☆ | A discharged serviceman out to redefine himself finds it difficult to cast off his religious upbringing. Bible Belt blues. |
| The Women | 1939 | NR | ☆☆☆☆ | A New York Socialite is pressured to divorce her cheating husband but afterwards holds regrets. Her ex doesn't like his new model. Their daughter doesn't like divorce. |
| Title | Year | Rating | Stars | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Analyze This | 1999 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | A family-practice shrink analyzes a mob boss with a girlish disposition. It's professional suicide for both if this gets out. The feds and a fiancee have their say, too. |
| Bad Times at the El Royale |
2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | Six guests and one hotel hand converge on a tawdry, fringe motel to sort out their lives. Whatever rings their bell. |
| Borderline | 1950 | TV-PG | ☆☆☆☆ | Two US Customs agents posing as man and wife make a run to the border with a load of faux drugs, a parrot that doesn't say much, and a mule that says less. Surprises await them. |
| Breaking In | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆★ | Four surprised crooks, two child hostages, and one queen bee mix it up on an isolated estate. Desperate moves are called for. |
| The Commuter | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A genuine ride. Life goes terribly wrong for an unsung commuter. If only Liam Neeson were there to save the day. |
| Dead End | 1937 | TV-PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A sultry day in a New York ghetto will see dead ends and new beginnings as its denizens size up their options and fight for the gravy. Not a musical. |
| Den of Thieves | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | Cocky criminal masterminds hit the Fed Reserve Bank in L.A. while being surveilled by Major Crimes Hotshots. Bullets do fly. |
| Game Nite | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | Three game-addicted couples & odd neighbor or bro mix it up on game night to play Murder We Wrote. Some of the players aren't acting. Some of the guns shoot real bullets. |
| The Girl in the Spider's Web |
2018 | R | ☆☆☆ | A dyke on a bike and her sis with a history strive over a stolen top secret NSA encryption program. Other powers join the fray. |
| Holmes and Watson | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | A thumbnail sketch of the life of Sherlock Holmes showing how his reputation was improved by his association with Dr. Watson. America had an influence, too. |
| Hotel Artemis | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | A hospital for wounded criminals has an upswing in admissions during the 2028 L.A. riots. Personalities clash, power fails, and a hitwoman executes her plan. |
| The Hurricane Heist | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | Ambitious crooks hit a Federal Treasury facility during a super storm. An inside man and a cooperative blow guarantee their success, but tenacious patriots interfere. |
| Jesse Stone Innocents Lost |
2011 | TV-PG | ☆☆☆ | Jesse Stone is divorced, sans badge, down one friend, living alone, and imbibing two drinks a night. He consults for the Mass. State Police on a hinky bust and moonlights avenging his friend. |
| The Maiden Heist | 2009 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | Three aging, museum security guards reroute their favorite curios rather than see them shipped overseas. Made-in-Boston fakes take their place. |
| Mile 22 | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | Clandestine organization Overwatch ops make a run at delivering an asset to an extraction plane 22 miles away in a hostile city, along contested roads, and under a ticking clock. Failure is not an option. |
| The Mule | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆ | A 90-year-old drug mule has unresolved family issues that impinge on his new trade when he gets a stricter boss. Out of the frying pan ... |
| Ocean's Eight | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | Released feloness gathers seven hustlers to snatch a prized necklace at the Met Gala. Makes it look easy. |
| A Simple Favor | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | A nanny vlogger having lost her charge's mommy discovers commonality with the mommy's hubby. An expanding number of followers log in daily. |
| The Sisters Brothers | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | The old west is changing and two brothers, guns for hire, must change with it or face extinction. Out of the frying pan into the fire. |
| Super Troopers 2 | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | Disgraced troopers who couldn't color between the lines reprise themselves to patrol a no-man's land between movable U.S.-Canadian borders. Diplomacy is not their strong suit. |
| White Boy Rick | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆ | A 1980s teenage hustler is conscripted as a drug informant by the FBI. Later he moves drugs on his own. Risky business this. |
| Widows | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | When a $2 million cash heist blows up in the criminals' faces, the gang it was stolen from seeks reparation from their widows. Or else. |
| Title | Year | Rating | Stars | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alien Crash at Roswell | 2013 | TV-14 | ☆☆☆ | An Air Force Major discovers some UFO wreckage, shows it to his family, then follows orders to cover it up. His grandson tells what he knows. |
| The Wolfpack | 2015 | R | ☆☆☆ | An inside out fairy tale where the wolf huffs and puffs and blows out the door from the inside. Captivating. |
| Title | Year | Rating | Stars | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adrift | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | Two young bohemians meet in Xanadu, fall in island love, swing a sailing gig, and crew a crippled ghost boat. The book deal turned into this movie. |
| All This and Heaven Too | 1940 | (PG) | ☆☆☆☆ | A new French instructor at a girls school must win her pupils' respect by regaling them with the story of her being governess for a French duke. Don't believe the gossip. |
| Bad Times at the El Royale |
2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | Six guests and one hotel hand converge on a tawdry, fringe motel to sort out their lives. Whatever rings their bell. |
| The Band's Visit | 2007 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Egyptian musical ambassadors play a poky town in Israel named Hope. |
| The Bible (Genesis) | 1966 | none | ☆☆☆☆ | An epic Sunday School story depiction of the first twenty-two chapters of Genesis. |
| Borderline | 1950 | TV-PG | ☆☆☆☆ | Two US Customs agents posing as man and wife make a run to the border with a load of faux drugs, a parrot that doesn't say much, and a mule that says less. Surprises await them. |
| Breaking In | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆★ | Four surprised crooks, two child hostages, and one queen bee mix it up on an isolated estate. Desperate moves are called for. |
| The Commuter | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A genuine ride. Life goes terribly wrong for an unsung commuter. If only Liam Neeson were there to save the day. |
| Darkest Hour | 2017 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | When the Nazi hammer is about to fall on Great Britain, a plodding cabinet member proves to be the man of the hour to lead the nation. |
| Dead End | 1937 | TV-PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A sultry day in a New York ghetto will see dead ends and new beginnings as its denizens size up their options and fight for the gravy. Not a musical. |
| Den of Thieves | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | Cocky criminal masterminds hit the Fed Reserve Bank in L.A. while being surveilled by Major Crimes Hotshots. Bullets do fly. |
| Downsizing | 2017 | R | ☆☆☆ | Miniaturized humans to solve the world's overpopulation problem. You wish. |
| Fear | 1996 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | A busy architect with a blended family could use a little help as his teenage daughter hooks up with a bad boy. Chickens come home to roost. |
| The Girl in the Spider's Web |
2018 | R | ☆☆☆ | A dyke on a bike and her sis with a history strive over a stolen top secret NSA encryption program. Other powers join the fray. |
| Goodbye, Mr. Chips | 1939 | NR | ☆☆☆☆☆ | Public school don reflects on his many-storied past before bidding his final adieu to his charges not a few. Based on the book. |
| Grand Illusion | 1937 | (G) | ☆☆☆☆☆ | At a couple WWI POW camps, officers make do as life goes on and some plan an escape. Lines get blurred between combatants. |
| The Grapes of Wrath | 1940 | G/PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A dispossessed Okie sharecropper family heads west in search of greener pastures ... along with a whole lot of other people. Americana tableau. |
| The Great Dictator | 1940 | G | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A shell-shocked German trooper from WWI resumes barbering, commences courtship, and gives a stand-in speech. Here, here! |
| Green Book | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | A wop factotum escorts an ace coon on a music tour of the deep south in the 1960s at the fag end of segregation. They go by the book. |
| His Girl Friday | 1940 | Cert. | ☆☆☆☆☆ | Newspaper editor entices his ex-wife/former employee back to work a scoop, hoping to re-marry her. Her new fiance waits in the wings. |
| The Homecoming | 1973 | PG | ☆☆☆☆ | A peripatetic son stops off at his English birthplace to introduce his wife to his all-but-forgotten family. They take to her big time. |
| Hostiles | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆★ | The American character was forged by hostile Indians, hostile environment, and hostile politics, with a bit of optimism and Yankee know-how thrown in. One man's journey depicted here. |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame | 1939 | TV-PG | ☆☆☆☆ | The printing press challenges superstition when a beautiful Gypsy girl awakens Medieval prejudices. She really rings the bells. |
| Jesse Stone Innocents Lost |
2011 | TV-PG | ☆☆☆ | Jesse Stone is divorced, sans badge, down one friend, living alone, and imbibing two drinks a night. He consults for the Mass. State Police on a hinky bust and moonlights avenging his friend. |
| The Life of Emile Zola | 1937 | G | ☆☆☆☆ | A famous French author of the 19th century goes from struggling artist to successful writer only to, later in life, get embroiled in intrigue once more when he publishes a letter to the President defending an innocent soldier who'd been wrongly convicted of treason. |
| Lost Horizon | 1937 | PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | While the world teeters on the brink of war and diplomats despair, a forgotten Belgian priest invites an outsider to partake of his idyllic community. |
| The Magician | 1958 | NR | ☆☆☆☆ | A troupe of 19th century carnies hemmed in by the law must pull a do-or-die trick out of the hat to survive. Science rules. |
| Moonrise Kingdom | 2012 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆☆ | In an insular island community about to be blasted by a storm, two troubled twelve-year-olds band together, elude pursuers, and flaunt authority. More power to them. |
| The Mule | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆ | A 90-year-old drug mule has unresolved family issues that impinge on his new trade when he gets a stricter boss. Out of the frying pan ... |
| My Man Godfrey | 1936 | NR | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A derelict gets a job as a rich family's butler and does better than expected. There's more to him than meets the eye. |
| The Natural | 1984 | PG | ☆☆☆☆ | A gifted young ballplayer loses his focus while on the cusp of the big leagues but later in life rediscovers his talent and his girl. The stuff of legend. |
| Nothing Sacred | 1937 | TV-PG | ☆☆☆☆ | This screwball comedy spares no one. A Cinderella story where the fairy godmother is the wicked witch of the west. A whirlwind tour de force takes an unprepossessing Vermont charmer to the big city lights where her wishes all come true in the worst possible way. Zany! |
| Of Mice and Men | 1939 | PG | ☆☆☆☆ | Two Depression era itinerant workers have big plans to improve their lot. A different kind of fate awaits them when they land on a farm where a neglected wife loves soft words and one of these transients things soft. |
| Only Angels Have Wings | 1939 | NR | ☆☆☆☆☆ | In the glory days of aviation, a remote South American way station attracts daredevil pilots and their groupies. An air transport company works hard to secure a contract while the women work hard to land their men. |
| Paint Your Wagon | 1969 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | Low brow comedy set in an all-male town soon to be colonized by women of easy virtue. How low will it go? |
| Peppermint | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | A drug-crazed LA social scene sprouts a revenge-driven mama. She's an angel to some. |
| Phantom Thread | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | A consummate high-end dressmaker matches wits with 'my fair lady' a flirty barmaid. She can outstare him, but can she outdrink him? |
| Paul Apostle of Christ | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | His execution a certainty the Apostle Paul in confinement awaits his coming fate. A surprise visitor Luke the physician wants to record Paul's final thoughts for posterity and to strengthen the persecuted church. |
| Premonition | 2007 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | A hum drum housewife loses her preoccupied hubby in an accident while he's away on business. But he keeps on coming back the next day. |
| Pride and Prejudice | 1940 | G/PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | Fortunes are about to change for five spinster sisters when some new bachelors arrive in town. At least their parents hope so. |
| Il Postino | 1994 | PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A postman's eye is captured by a village barmaid, and in residence on his route lives a reclusive love poet. The left hand washes the right. |
| A Quiet Place | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | An embattled farm family of four is up against an invasion of locusts numbering ... three. These big badass bugs eat the farmers, not the farm. They're ignored by big government as usual. |
| Red Sparrow | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | What's a nice girl spy like you doing in Russian Sex School? She's doing pretty well, actually. Not that she wouldn't rather be someplace else. |
| Samson | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | A reluctant longhaired superhero with a heart to the ladies is selected to judge Israel and squash the domineering Philistines or die trying. |
| Searching | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | A single dad seemingly close to his high school daughter traces her life via her laptop computer when she turns up missing. The police help on the ground. |
| A Serious Man | 2009 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | A Minnesota Jew in 1967 struggles amidst building pressures to make sense of an unrewarding life. Not going to happen. |
| Shall We Dance? | 1996 | PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A middle aged Japanese accountant relieves the tedium of his humdrum life by taking up ballroom dancing on the sly. His wife is onto him. |
| A Simple Favor | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | A nanny vlogger having lost her charge's mommy discovers commonality with the mommy's hubby. An expanding number of followers log in daily. |
| The Sisters Brothers | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | The old west is changing and two brothers, guns for hire, must change with it or face extinction. Out of the frying pan into the fire. |
| Songs from 2nd Floor | 2000 | NR | ☆☆☆☆ | Changes are happening in Sweden at the dawn of the new millennium and it's difficult for some to relinquish the old. Not just in Sweden. |
| Stage Door | 1937 | (PG) | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A coterie of theater neophytes (and one maven) occupy a Manhattan boarding house for women waiting for their big breaks. Lots of spicy dialogue. One ringer. |
| Synecdoche, New York | 2008 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | A middle-aged theater director moves to the Big Apple to create his magnum opus only to find he's bit off more than he can chew. His wife has deserted him. His daughter is gone. |
| Vanya on 42nd St | 1994 | PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | New York actors rehearse Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' in a dilapidated theatre sans trappings. David Mamet's modern adaptation of the play. |
| White Boy Rick | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆ | A 1980s teenage hustler is conscripted as a drug informant by the FBI. Later he moves drugs on his own. Risky business this. |
| Widows | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | When a $2 million cash heist blows up in the criminals' faces, the gang it was stolen from seeks reparation from their widows. Or else. |
| Wise Blood | 1979 | PG | ☆☆☆☆ | A discharged serviceman out to redefine himself finds it difficult to cast off his religious upbringing. Bible Belt blues. |
| The Women | 1939 | NR | ☆☆☆☆ | A New York Socialite is pressured to divorce her cheating husband but afterwards holds regrets. Her ex doesn't like his new model. Their daughter doesn't like divorce. |
| Young Mr. Lincoln | 1939 | NR | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A series of anecdotes about the young man Abraham Lincoln: experiences and influences as he heads towards his life calling. |
| Title | Year | Rating | Stars | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween |
2018 | PG | ☆☆☆☆ | A college-bound senior, her science-minded brother, and their holiday-ready neighbor(s) have a spooky Halloween when the overworked mom gets attached to the props. Electrifying! |
| The Grinch | 2018 | PG | ☆☆☆☆ | The mean Grinch hatches a plan to steal Christmas from the unwary Whos, but a kindhearted Who-child touches his heart. |
| Lost Horizon | 1937 | PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | While the world teeters on the brink of war and diplomats despair, a forgotten Belgian priest invites an outsider to partake of his idyllic community. |
| Premonition | 2007 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | A hum drum housewife loses her preoccupied hubby in an accident while he's away on business. But he keeps on coming back the next day. |
| Ready Player One | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | VR game maven stretches himself to score the grand prize while getting distracted by a virtual chick. Or is it a Chuck? |
| Sorry to Bother You | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | An upwardly mobile Negro on a winning streak risks losing his girl for his success. There's plenty of room at the bottom. |
| Title | Year | Rating | Stars | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Borderline | 1950 | TV-PG | ☆☆☆☆ | Two US Customs agents posing as man and wife make a run to the border with a load of faux drugs, a parrot that doesn't say much, and a mule that says less. Surprises await them. |
| Dead End | 1937 | TV-PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A sultry day in a New York ghetto will see dead ends and new beginnings as its denizens size up their options and fight for the gravy. Not a musical. |
| Title | Year | Rating | Stars | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Bible (Genesis) | 1966 | none | ☆☆☆☆ | An epic Sunday School story depiction of the first twenty-two chapters of Genesis. |
| Darkest Hour | 2017 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | When the Nazi hammer is about to fall on Great Britain, a plodding cabinet member proves to be the man of the hour to lead the nation. |
| The Grapes of Wrath | 1940 | G/PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A dispossessed Okie sharecropper family heads west in search of greener pastures ... along with a whole lot of other people. Americana tableau. |
| Title | Year | Rating | Stars | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The First Purge | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | Beta testing an experimental 12 hour suspension of law and order on Staten Island. On live TV with dead participants. |
| Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween |
2018 | PG | ☆☆☆☆ | A college-bound senior, her science-minded brother, and their holiday-ready neighbor(s) have a spooky Halloween when the overworked mom gets attached to the props. Electrifying! |
| The Meg | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | A disgraced, divorced, and disenfranchised deep sea diver redeems himself fighting the sea monster of his nightmares. I-told-you-so on steroids. |
| Overlord | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | A small band of Allied paratroopers landing in occupied France to prepare for D-Day find their target infested with Nazi super-soldiers. This experimental batch isn't stable. |
| The Predator (2018) | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆☆ | Hybrid space "predators" drop into a small town on Halloween night and share goodies and frights with escapees from a loony bus. An autistic kid speaks their language. |
| A Quiet Place | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | An embattled farm family of four is up against an invasion of locusts numbering ... three. These big badass bugs eat the farmers, not the farm. They're ignored by big government as usual. |
| Truth or Dare | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | Two inseparable college friends find their relation strained by a spring break excursion and a not-so-fun game. Too much information; too few options. |
| Unfriended: Dark Web | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A hapless app designer inadvertently replaces his slow laptop with someone's infected castoff, gets sucked into the dark web, and brings his friends along with him. Onscreen horror. |
| Unsane | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | A career girl gets out of her depth when she relocates to a strange city. She thinks her stalker may have followed her there. Seeking counsel she gets trapped in a mental health quagmire. |
| Upgrade | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A techno throwback loses his progressive wife and is aided by an AI implant to avenge her death. Cutting edge technology at its scariest. |
| Music / | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Year | Rating | Stars | Description |
| The Band's Visit | 2007 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Egyptian musical ambassadors play a poky town in Israel named Hope. |
| Green Book | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | A wop factotum escorts an ace coon on a music tour of the deep south in the 1960s at the fag end of segregation. They go by the book. |
| The Grinch | 2018 | PG | ☆☆☆☆ | The mean Grinch hatches a plan to steal Christmas from the unwary Whos, but a kindhearted Who-child touches his heart. |
| Paint Your Wagon | 1969 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | Low brow comedy set in an all-male town soon to be colonized by women of easy virtue. How low will it go? |
| Shall We Dance? | 1996 | PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A middle aged Japanese accountant relieves the tedium of his humdrum life by taking up ballroom dancing on the sly. His wife is onto him. |
| Title | Year | Rating | Stars | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bad Times at the El Royale |
2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | Six guests and one hotel hand converge on a tawdry, fringe motel to sort out their lives. Whatever rings their bell. |
| Blow Out | 1981 | R | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A movie soundman inadvertently records the murder of a prominent politician. Nobody is interested in his recording ... except a conspirator who doesn't like loose ends. |
| The Commuter | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A genuine ride. Life goes terribly wrong for an unsung commuter. If only Liam Neeson were there to save the day. |
| Den of Thieves | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | Cocky criminal masterminds hit the Fed Reserve Bank in L.A. while being surveilled by Major Crimes Hotshots. Bullets do fly. |
| Game Nite | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | Three game-addicted couples & odd neighbor or bro mix it up on game night to play Murder We Wrote. Some of the players aren't acting. Some of the guns shoot real bullets. |
| Holmes and Watson | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | A thumbnail sketch of the life of Sherlock Holmes showing how his reputation was improved by his association with Dr. Watson. America had an influence, too. |
| Lost Horizon | 1937 | PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | While the world teeters on the brink of war and diplomats despair, a forgotten Belgian priest invites an outsider to partake of his idyllic community. |
| The Mule | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆ | A 90-year-old drug mule has unresolved family issues that impinge on his new trade when he gets a stricter boss. Out of the frying pan ... |
| Overlord | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | A small band of Allied paratroopers landing in occupied France to prepare for D-Day find their target infested with Nazi super-soldiers. This experimental batch isn't stable. |
| Premonition | 2007 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | A hum drum housewife loses her preoccupied hubby in an accident while he's away on business. But he keeps on coming back the next day. |
| Red Sparrow | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | What's a nice girl spy like you doing in Russian Sex School? She's doing pretty well, actually. Not that she wouldn't rather be someplace else. |
| Runaway Jury | 2003 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | Things are queasy in the Big Easy when a juror's not excused, pretty pleasey. It ain't easy gaming the system with his main squeezey. |
| Searching | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | A single dad seemingly close to his high school daughter traces her life via her laptop computer when she turns up missing. The police help on the ground. |
| A Simple Favor | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | A nanny vlogger having lost her charge's mommy discovers commonality with the mommy's hubby. An expanding number of followers log in daily. |
| Super Troopers 2 | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | Disgraced troopers who couldn't color between the lines reprise themselves to patrol a no-man's land between movable U.S.-Canadian borders. Diplomacy is not their strong suit. |
| Title | Year | Rating | Stars | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adrift | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | Two young bohemians meet in Xanadu, fall in island love, swing a sailing gig, and crew a crippled ghost boat. The book deal turned into this movie. |
| All This & Heaven Too | 1940 | (PG) | ☆☆☆☆ | A new French instructor at a girls school must win her pupils' respect by regaling them with the story of her being governess for a French duke. Don't believe the gossip. |
| The Band's Visit | 2007 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Egyptian musical ambassadors play a poky town in Israel named Hope. |
| Bull Durham | 1988 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | Trailing Durham Bulls acquire a rookie pitcher with a million dollar arm and a five cent brain. Under the tutelage of a seasoned catcher and influence of a heady main squeeze, he blossoms. |
| Crazy Rich Asians | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | A Chinese-American economics professor accompanies her Singapore boyfriend home to attend his best friend's wedding. Their respective families trace different paths. |
| Easy Living | 1937 | TV-PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | Compounded misunderstandings about a sable coat disrupt a tycoon's married life and New York's financial district. No good deed goes unpunished. Chaos rules. |
| Goodbye, Mr. Chips | 1939 | NR | ☆☆☆☆☆ | Public school don reflects on his many-storied past before bidding his final adieu to his charges not a few. Based on the book. |
| His Girl Friday | 1940 | Cert. | ☆☆☆☆☆ | Newspaper editor entices his ex-wife/former employee back to work a scoop, hoping to re-marry her. Her new fiance waits in the wings. |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame | 1939 | TV-PG | ☆☆☆☆ | The printing press challenges superstition when a beautiful Gypsy girl awakens Medieval prejudices. She really rings the bells. |
| Moonrise Kingdom | 2012 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆☆ | In an insular island community about to be blasted by a storm, two troubled twelve-year-olds band together, elude pursuers, and flaunt authority. More power to them. |
| My Favorite Wife | 1940 | G/PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A big city lawyer remarries after his long missing wife is declared legally dead. When she shows up on their honeymoon, problems ensue. Big time. |
| My Man Godfrey | 1936 | NR | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A derelict gets a job as a rich family's butler and does better than expected. There's more to him than meets the eye. |
| Ninotchka | 1939 | US TV-G | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A special envoy from Moscow comes to Paris to facilitate the sale of state confiscated jewels, contested by their former female owner whose main man has designs on the dish. Red rhetoric meets big blarney. |
| Nothing Sacred | 1937 | TV-PG | ☆☆☆☆ | This screwball comedy spares no one. A Cinderella story where the fairy godmother is the wicked witch of the west. A whirlwind tour de force takes an unprepossessing Vermont charmer to the big city lights where her wishes all come true in the worst possible way. Zany! |
| Only Angels Have Wings | 1939 | NR | ☆☆☆☆☆ | In the glory days of aviation, a remote South American way station attracts daredevil pilots and their groupies. An air transport company works hard to secure a contract while the women work hard to land their men. |
| Overboard | 1987 | PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | Variation on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. Lives of the Rich and Famous meet lives of the poor and infamous. Good lessons to be learned by all. Can true love triumph? |
| Overboard | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | Love/hate at first slight. Pretty young working widow mom turns tables on rich playboy cad when the latter falls into the deep and awakes sans memory or anyone to claim him. |
| Paint Your Wagon | 1969 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | Low brow comedy set in an all-male town soon to be colonized by women of easy virtue. How low will it go? |
| Phantom Thread | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | A consummate high-end dressmaker matches wits with 'my fair lady' a flirty barmaid. She can outstare him, but can she outdrink him? |
| The Philadelphia Story | 1940 | G | ☆☆☆☆☆ | An ex-husband introduces a couple gossip columnists to the family of his ex-wife on the eve of her upcoming wedding day. The party is a real deal-breaker. |
| Pride and Prejudice | 1940 | G/PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | Fortunes are about to change for five spinster sisters when some new bachelors arrive in town. At least their parents hope so. |
| Il Postino | 1994 | PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A postman's eye is captured by a village barmaid, and in residence on his route lives a reclusive love poet. The left hand washes the right. |
| Robin Hood Adventures | 1938 | PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | Well-known English medieval legend springs to life on the big screen. Well-worn plot never grows old. Much vigorous swordplay. |
| Vanya on 42nd St | 1994 | PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | New York actors rehearse Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' in a dilapidated theatre sans trappings. David Mamet's modern adaptation of the play. |
| Shall We Dance? | 1996 | PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A middle aged Japanese accountant relieves the tedium of his humdrum life by taking up ballroom dancing on the sly. His wife is onto him. |
| Widows | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | When a $2 million cash heist blows up in the criminals' faces, the gang it was stolen from seeks reparation from their widows. Or else. |
| Title | Year | Rating | Stars | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black Panther | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | Some third-world African kings and pretenders duke it out while in possession of the world's most valuable rocks. News to the CIA. Old news to the UFO's. |
| Downsizing | 2017 | R | ☆☆☆ | Miniaturized humans to solve the world's overpopulation problem. You wish. |
| The First Purge | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | Beta testing an experimental 12 hour suspension of law and order on Staten Island. On live TV with dead participants. |
| Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom |
2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | An awakening volcano on Isla Nublar threatens to drive the dinosaurs extinct - again. U.S. Congress debates catastrophe, dinosaur advocates attempt liberation, and animal traffickers cash in. |
| Maze Runner 3 | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | A fast-paced teen-heroes action flick cum medical thriller. Apocalyptic overtones. Third of a trilogy. |
| The Meg | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | A disgraced, divorced, and disenfranchised deep sea diver redeems himself fighting the sea monster of his nightmares. I-told-you-so on steroids. |
| Overlord | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | A small band of Allied paratroopers landing in occupied France to prepare for D-Day find their target infested with Nazi super-soldiers. This experimental batch isn't stable. |
| The Predator (2018) | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆☆ | Hybrid space "predators" drop into a small town on Halloween night and share goodies and frights with escapees from a loony bus. An autistic kid speaks their language. |
| A Quiet Place | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | An embattled farm family of four is up against an invasion of locusts numbering ... three. These big badass bugs eat the farmers, not the farm. They're ignored by big government as usual. |
| Rampage | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | A video-game–derived creature feature. A reclusive gorilla whisperer and a brilliant geneticist join forces to try to save Chicago & an infected ape before the army bombs them all to smithereens. |
| Ready Player One | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | VR game maven stretches himself to score the grand prize while getting distracted by a virtual chick. Or is it a Chuck? |
| Sorry to Bother You | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | An upwardly mobile Negro on a winning streak risks losing his girl for his success. There's plenty of room at the bottom. |
| Upgrade | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | A techno throwback loses his progressive wife and is aided by an AI implant to avenge her death. Cutting edge technology at its scariest. |
| Title | Year | Rating | Stars | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bull Durham | 1988 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | Trailing Durham Bulls acquire a rookie pitcher with a million dollar arm and a five cent brain. Under the tutelage of a seasoned catcher and influence of a heady main squeeze, he blossoms. |
| The Natural | 1984 | PG | ☆☆☆☆ | A gifted young ballplayer loses his focus while on the cusp of the big leagues but later in life rediscovers his talent and his girl. The stuff of legend. |
| Title | Year | Rating | Stars | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adrift | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | Two young bohemians meet in Xanadu, fall in island love, swing a sailing gig, and crew a crippled ghost boat. The book deal turned into this movie. |
| Bad Times at the El Royale |
2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | Six guests and one hotel hand converge on a tawdry, fringe motel to sort out their lives. Whatever rings their bell. |
| Blow Out | 1981 | R | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A movie soundman inadvertently records the murder of a prominent politician. Nobody is interested in his recording ... except a conspirator who doesn't like loose ends. |
| Borderline | 1950 | TV-PG | ☆☆☆☆ | Two US Customs agents posing as man and wife make a run to the border with a load of faux drugs, a parrot that doesn't say much, and a mule that says less. Surprises await them. |
| Breaking In | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆★ | Four surprised crooks, two child hostages, and one queen bee mix it up on an isolated estate. Desperate moves are called for. |
| The Commuter | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A genuine ride. Life goes terribly wrong for an unsung commuter. If only Liam Neeson were there to save the day. |
| Den of Thieves | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | Cocky criminal masterminds hit the Fed Reserve Bank in L.A. while being surveilled by Major Crimes Hotshots. Bullets do fly. |
| Fear | 1996 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | A busy architect with a blended family could use a little help as his teenage daughter hooks up with a bad boy. Chickens come home to roost. |
| The First Purge | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | Beta testing an experimental 12 hour suspension of law and order on Staten Island. On live TV with dead participants. |
| The Girl in the Spider's Web |
2018 | R | ☆☆☆ | A dyke on a bike and her sis with a history strive over a stolen top secret NSA encryption program. Other powers join the fray. |
| Hotel Artemis | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | A hospital for wounded criminals has an upswing in admissions during the 2028 L.A. riots. Personalities clash, power fails, and a hitwoman executes her plan. |
| Hunter Killer | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | The hot line is kaput, the subs are sunk, the SEALs are disavowed, and the new skipper is leading a merry chase. DEFCON ONE, anyone? |
| The Hurricane Heist | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | Ambitious crooks hit a Federal Treasury facility during a super storm. An inside man and a cooperative blow guarantee their success, but tenacious patriots interfere. |
| Maze Runner 3 | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | A fast-paced teen-heroes action flick cum medical thriller. Apocalyptic overtones. Third of a trilogy. |
| The Meg | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | A disgraced, divorced, and disenfranchised deep sea diver redeems himself fighting the sea monster of his nightmares. I-told-you-so on steroids. |
| Mile 22 | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | Clandestine organization Overwatch ops make a run at delivering an asset to an extraction plane 22 miles away in a hostile city, along contested roads, and under a ticking clock. Failure is not an option. |
| Mission Impossible 6 | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆☆ | An out-of-favor Ethan Hunt leads his IMF team (what's left of them) on a deadly chase to secure three Plutonium cores before what survived of The Syndicate gets them. A shell game of spies. |
| The Mule | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆ | A 90-year-old drug mule has unresolved family issues that impinge on his new trade when he gets a stricter boss. Out of the frying pan ... |
| Ocean's Eight | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | Released feloness gathers seven hustlers to snatch a prized necklace at the Met Gala. Makes it look easy. |
| Peppermint | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | A drug-crazed LA social scene sprouts a revenge-driven mama. She's an angel to some. |
| The Predator (2018) | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆☆ | Hybrid space "predators" drop into a small town on Halloween night and share goodies and frights with escapees from a loony bus. An autistic kid speaks their language. |
| Premonition | 2007 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | A hum drum housewife loses her preoccupied hubby in an accident while he's away on business. But he keeps on coming back the next day. |
| A Quiet Place | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | An embattled farm family of four is up against an invasion of locusts numbering ... three. These big badass bugs eat the farmers, not the farm. They're ignored by big government as usual. |
| Red Sparrow | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | What's a nice girl spy like you doing in Russian Sex School? She's doing pretty well, actually. Not that she wouldn't rather be someplace else. |
| Robin Hood (2018) | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆ | A returned crusader lord disguised with a hood robs from the rich and gives to the poor in merry old England. Against much opposition. |
| Searching | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | A single dad seemingly close to his high school daughter traces her life via her laptop computer when she turns up missing. The police help on the ground. |
| A Simple Favor | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | A nanny vlogger having lost her charge's mommy discovers commonality with the mommy's hubby. An expanding number of followers log in daily. |
| Truth or Dare | 2018 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | Two inseparable college friends find their relation strained by a spring break excursion and a not-so-fun game. Too much information; too few options. |
| Unsane | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | A career girl gets out of her depth when she relocates to a strange city. She thinks her stalker may have followed her there. Seeking counsel she gets trapped in a mental health quagmire. |
| Upgrade | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A techno throwback loses his progressive wife and is aided by an AI implant to avenge her death. Cutting edge technology at its scariest. |
| Widows | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | When a $2 million cash heist blows up in the criminals' faces, the gang it was stolen from seeks reparation from their widows. Or else. |
| Title | Year | Rating | Stars | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Darkest Hour | 2017 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | When the Nazi hammer is about to fall on Great Britain, a plodding cabinet member proves to be the man of the hour to lead the nation. |
| Grand Illusion | 1937 | (G) | ☆☆☆☆☆ | At a couple WWI POW camps, officers make do as life goes on and some plan an escape. Lines get blurred between combatants. |
| The Great Dictator | 1940 | G | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A shell-shocked German trooper from WWI resumes barbering, commences courtship, and gives a stand-in speech. Here, here! |
| Hunter Killer | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | The hot line is kaput, the subs are sunk, the SEALs are disavowed, and the new skipper is leading a merry chase. DEFCON ONE, anyone? |
| Overlord | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | A small band of Allied paratroopers landing in occupied France to prepare for D-Day find their target infested with Nazi super-soldiers. This experimental batch isn't stable. |
| Title | Year | Rating | Stars | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Destry Rides Again | 1939 | TV-PG | ☆☆☆☆☆ | A lawless western town known for its "promiscuous shooting" is tackled by a famous lawman's son who relies more on his repartee than a six-shooter. Who will have the last laugh? |
| Hostiles | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆★ | The American character was forged by hostile Indians, hostile environment, and hostile politics, with a bit of optimism and Yankee know-how thrown in. One man's journey depicted here. |
| Paint Your Wagon | 1969 | PG-13 | ☆☆☆☆ | Low brow comedy set in an all-male town soon to be colonized by women of easy virtue. How low will it go? |
| The Sisters Brothers | 2018 | R | ☆☆☆☆ | The old west is changing and two brothers, guns for hire, must change with it or face extinction. Out of the frying pan into the fire. |
Valtorta, Maria. The Gospel as Revealed to Me. Vol. 2. Translated from Italian by Nicandro Picozzi, M.A., D.D. Revised by Patrick McLaughlin, M.A. This 2nd English Edition has now replaced the First English Edition, The Poem of the Man-God. WEB.
Whitehead, John W. Grasping for the Wind: the search for meaning in the 20th century. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 2001. Print.
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