True Stories
Hotel Rwanda
Highly Recommended. A simple black hotel manager in Rwanda rescues over a thousand refuges from...
Flight of the Phoenix
Recommended. Great popcorn adventure movie. Actually, a survival adventure movie about a group of people...
Beyond the Sea
Not Recommended. Boring biography about Bobby Darin. This guy’s life and character and music was...
The Aviator
Not Recommended. All right. I have decided to announce the Triumvirate of Mediocrity: Martin Scorsese,...
Kinsey
Not Recommended. This movie is terribly dishonest and morally criminal. It is the cliché accusation...
Finding Neverland
Hard to Recommend. This is a complex one. This film is really quite brilliant, and...
Woman, Thou Art Loosed
Partially recommended. Very thoughtful and poetic. This movie does for black Gospel culture what The...
King Arthur
Kinda recommended for it’s interesting take on an epic legend, but not really recommended because...
To End All Wars
Very Highly Recommended. Possibly one of the best films ever made. Okay, I wrote the...
Troy
Excellent production values, but hard to recommend. A hollow epic. This movie was well-written. It...
The Alamo
Somewhat Recommended. Not a very exciting movie, by modern action movie standards, but acceptable. Okay,...
Hidalgo
Recommended with reservations. Now here is a thematically rich story. I was impressed. This buddy...
In America
Recommended. Written and directed by Jim Sheridan with his daughters, this film, part autobiography, is...
Calendar Girls
Hard to recommend. This is another movie that has some wonderful character moments, great lines,...
American Splendor
Ambivalent Recommendation. This is an interesting movie based on the real life, below average existence...
Girl With a Pearl Earring
Recommended with qualifications. A fictional story of the historical Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer and the...
The Last Samurai
Recommended. Okay , this is “Dances With Samurai,” not a Cruise Braveheart, but it is...
Shattered Glass
Highly Recommended. This is the true story of Stephen Glass, who worked for the New...
The Passion of the Christ
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Opening in February 2004. Let me say right out that this is, for...
Radio
Highly Recommended. This wonderful little sentimental heart-tugging true story stars Cuba Gooding Jr. as the...
Beyond Borders
Not Recommended. This was a potentially great idea ruined by Romanticism. It follows the path...
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