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Machine Gun Preacher
Relativity Media Directed by Marc Forster Written by Jason Keller From the opening scene of...
Super 8
Kid’s Creature Feature. E.T. gone bad. Well, not really, but that’s how it plays out...
The Tree of Life
Arthouse family drama. Terrence Malik’s new cinematic exploration of the meaning of life and suffering...
Priest
Post-Apocalyptic Sci-fi horror. “Vampires have always been with us.” In the future, after the vampire...
Thor
Comic book hero origin story. This movie was much better than I had expected. Probably...
Welcome to the Rileys
A picture of grace. Doug (James Gandolfini) and Lois (Melissa Leo) have been married 30...
Season of the Witch
Supernatural period horror. Behman and Felson start as Crusading knights fighting wars with Muslims (not...
The Adjustment Bureau
Humanism and Open Theism. I got a chance to see an advance screening of this...
The Rite
A story of faith’s victory over skepticism through the supernatural. Michael Kovak is the son...
The Way Back
An epic road movie. Based on a true story that was probably plagiarized by author...
The King’s Speech
A British period drama about a commoner speech therapist who helped King George VI overcome...
127 Hours
Survival tale based on a true story of Aaron Ralston, a mountaineer whose arm was...
The Company Men
Drama about three executives at different levels and ages who lose their jobs in the...
Shrek Forever After
If you remember, the original was an apparently traditional fairy tale that made fun of...
Faster
A revenge story with redemption. A newly released ex-con, played by Dwayne Johnson, seeks to...
Skyline
Low budget Sci-fi action rip off of Independence Day meets Cloverfield. A group of friends...
Paranormal Activity 2
In this found footage horror sequel, we see a clever new version of the first...
Secretariat
This is a total feel good movie of the year, sure to be a strong...
The Social Network
A drama about the invention of Facebook and its founders, written by Aaron Sorkin and...
Let Me In
American remake of the superior Danish vampire movie, “Let the Right One In.” Story of...
Buried
This thriller is based on a high concept that actually works surprisingly well. It’s the...
The Town
Crime Drama. The story of a bank robber in Charlestown NY who discovers love and...
Devil
Christian morality tale. This movie starts with a creative interesting open of establishing shots of...
Inception
Boy, where does one begin? This is another philosophical opus by Christopher Nolan that pretty...
The Last Exorcist
This movie is a particular genre that I enjoy for its prophetic edge. I call...
Clash of the Titans
The worldview here is subversive Humanism: Mankind is the measure of all things, and human...
Alice in Wonderland
This is a feminist tale of liberation from patriarchy. Alice is in a Victorian oppressive...
Repo Men
Remy and Jake are repo men of the near future who repossess artificial bodily organs...
Shutter Island
Okay, this one has a real big spoiler that will ruin the movie if you...
The Wolfman
A remake of the original Lon Chaney Jr. movie. Lawrence Talbot, son of a nobleman...
Creation
The dramatic story of the origin of Charles Darwin’s book On the Origin of the...
The Lovely Bones
A murder thriller about the search for a killer in the 1970s, as told through...