Romantic Drama
Oscar Win: The Shape of Water Reveals the Soul of Hollywood — Bestiality.
A sci-fi interspecies romance. A mute female janitor working in a 1960s top-secret government facility...
OSCAR WATCH • Brooklyn: This is What American Exceptionalism Used to Be
Circa 1950s, a young Irish girl makes her way to America to find work in...
OSCAR WATCH • The Theory of Everything: Unintentional Tragedy of a Crippled Atheist Mind.
The story of brilliant Cambridge cosmologist Stephen Hawking and his relationship with his wife...
Twilight: Breaking Dawn (Part 2)
As bad as Breaking Dawn Part 1, was, this one is not much melodramatically better....
The Adjustment Bureau
Humanism and Open Theism. I got a chance to see an advance screening of this...
Up in the Air
A tale of cynicism and love in conflict, of reality and escape, isolation and human...
An Education
A feminist coming of age story about a young 16 year old British girl in...
The Last Station
Based on the true story of famous Russian writer Leo Tolstoy’s last year of life,...
Twilight: New Moon
In this Twilight series sequel, Bella, having fallen in love with a vampire, is now...
Coco Before Chanel
The story of the beginnings of Gabrielle Chanel from a destitute French orphan near the...
Whip It
Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut about a young girl in a small town in Texas who...
Zombieland: Love in the Post-Apocalypse
We got to talking about this on the Hollywood Worldviews Group, and I watched it...
Two Lovers
Joaquin Phoenix plays Leonard, a Jewish guy who, on the verge of suicide by rejection...
Click
Romantic Comedy. A family man discovers a magical "universal remote" that allows him to fast...
Take the Lead
Social issue dramedy. Antonio Banderas plays a Ballroom Dance instructor who tries to help inner...
Memoirs of a Geisha
Romantic epic. Actually, the story of a high class call girl who finds love. A...
Walk the Line
Biopic of the famous/infamous Johnny Cash and his relationship with June Carter. Joaquin Phoenix and...
Pride and Prejudice
I am a fan of the BBC 5 hour adaptation, but I have to say,...
Shopgirl
Existentialist romantic dramedy. Steve Martin has written a rather thoughtful piece here that seems deeply...
The Upside of Anger
Not really recommended. This is a movie about a woman, Joan Allen, and her four...
Broken Flowers
Not Recommended. This is a story with a powerful moral theme that I think is...
The Legend of 1900
Not Very Recommended. This is a movie that is not a great story and has...
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Recommended with caution. This is a young chick flick about four girlfriends in high school...
Crash
Highly Recommended for mature viewers (Lots of harsh “language”). This is an incredible movie about...
Chocolat
Not Recommended. My brother-in-law recently did a detailed analysis of this movie to point up...
Because of Winn Dixie
Partially recommended. A well-intentioned family film by Walden. Walden’s Holes was mediocre, and this one...
Finding Neverland
Hard to Recommend. This is a complex one. This film is really quite brilliant, and...
Shall We Dance?
Recommended with discernment. A wonderful movie that affirms marriage while being honest with the dryness...
Woman, Thou Art Loosed
Partially recommended. Very thoughtful and poetic. This movie does for black Gospel culture what The...
Vanity Fair
Kind of Recommended. As far as period pieces of the 19th century go, this one...
The Notebook
Recommended with Caution. This was an emotionally rich and moving story for me. First off,...
The Terminal
Recommended, but not highly. There is just something magical about Tom Hanks to me that...