Flicks & Faith Archive

POST PUBLISHED INOctober, 2010

Home > Blogs > Flicks & Faith > Archive

Cinema in Focus - LIFE AS WE KNOW IT - 2 Stars

October 28th, 201002:14 AM ET

By Denny Wayman

Two themes interplay in Greg Berlanti’s comedy “Life As We Know It.” The first, as the title implies, is that life can take unpredictable turns - especially when an event occurs that is so impactful that even your own life becomes suddenly unfamiliar. The second theme is that shared life in a family trumps the single life. S...
Narnia Fans Deliver Christmas Early

October 22nd, 201003:22 PM ET

By Marc Newman

Christmas films are coming – none is more eagerly awaited than The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Fans of the films adapted from the books by C.S. Lewis know that Narnia was once a land ruled by the evil White Witch who made it a place where it was “always winter, but never Christmas.” The Great Lion Aslan – the Chris...
Cinema in Focus - SOCIAL NETWORK - 3 Stars

October 18th, 201001:57 PM ET

By Denny Wayman

Human beings are social creatures. From the very first pronouncement in the book of Genesis that “It is not good for man to be alone” to the 500,000 000 people on the FACEBOOK social network, there is no doubt that we crave relationship. But this most recent form of seeking friends is better understood after seeing David Fincher’s “Social N...
Cinema in Focus - CONVICTION - 3 Stars

October 14th, 201006:03 PM ET

By Denny Wayman

Life is not always fair and we don’t all live happily ever after. For some, life brands you as a loser in childhood. Such was the experience of Kenny Waters, a man whose life was traumatic from the start and who ended up in prison for life. In a sobering biographical tale, “Conviction” takes us through the real life experience of Kenny (Sam ...
Cinema in Focus - SECRETARIAT - 4 Stars

October 13th, 201004:43 PM ET

By Denny Wayman

Knowing the outcome does not lessen the tension or excitement of watching the rise of Secretariat, the fastest horse in history, culminating in his winning the Triple Crown in this film chronicling his accomplishment. A masterful story-teller, director Randall Wallace (Braveheart and Pearl Harbor) takes us on a journey with both “Big Red” and h...