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Cinema in Focus - THE HUNGER GAMES - 3 Stars

March 31st, 201201:19 PM ET

By Denny Wayman

One of the most horrendous schemes devised by any community throughout history is killing their children in a misguided attempt to keep peace or assure prosperity. Whether it is sacrificing infants to appease a demonic deity or creating a lethal game to enable a corrupt government to stay in power, there is nothing more evil than the killing of our...
Cinema in Focus - 21 JUMP STREET - 1 Star

March 23rd, 201202:49 PM ET

By Denny Wayman

If you were a fan of the original 1980's TV show "21 Jump Street" starring Johnny Depp, you will be sorely disappointed in this updated 2012 film version. Unlike the highly acclaimed 1980's police drama with a slick undercover teenage police officer, this knock-off is a slapstick comedy filled with adolescent sexual innuendos and pranks. It is more...
Cinema in Focus - JOHN CARTER 3 Stars

March 22nd, 201211:58 AM ET

By Denny Wayman

One hundred years ago, Edgar Rice Burroughs created the character John Carter for his eleven volume novel titled "Barsoom." As a decorated Confederate officer of the Civil War, Carter began an extraterrestrial life on this fourth planet form the sun and later adapted to the visual world of Marvel comic books. But in this first version of the tale, ...
Cinema in Focus - FRIENDS WITH KIDS - 1 Star

March 14th, 201202:10 AM ET

By Denny Wayman

It is difficult to watch a film as empty of morality as is Jennifer Westfeldt's "Friends with Kids." As producer, director, writer and lead actor, Westfeldt's movie is witty and creative, but the characters she creates are going through life without wisdom or direction, living by a moral trial-and-error process, as though thousands of years of huma...
Cinema in Focus - SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN - 3 Stars

March 10th, 201207:11 PM ET

By Denny Wayman

It isn't every day that you get caught hooked on a film you didn't expect, but "Salmon Fishing In The Yemen" will reel you in. Its charm and wit make for a good story, but its example of simple faith is inspiring. Caught between the cultures of stiff upper lip Great Britain and the desert mystery of the middle east, a viewer can easily fall in love...
Cinema in Focus - TYLER PERRY'S GOOD DEEDS - 2 Stars

March 10th, 201211:06 AM ET

By Denny Wayman

The strength of Tyler Perry's films lies not only in the moral messages they enfold but also in their ability to tell the black experience in America. Showing African-Americans who have reached the highest levels of society, the hero of this film is a multiple generation Ivy League graduate. The impact this has on American culture cannot be underes...
Cinema in Focus - ACT OF VALOR - 3 Stars

March 08th, 201203:02 PM ET

By Denny Wayman

"Act of Valor" is a film that will haunt you long after you see it. Writer Kurt Johnstad and Directors Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh have blended together the pulse-throbbing action of a war movie with a documentary style that uses active duty Navy Seals to look at the terror they confront on our behalf every day. Not only are we witnesses to unfetter...
Project X and Wanderlust – On Being Lost in America

March 01st, 201203:42 AM ET

By Marc Newman

What does it take to be included, to feel a part of something bigger than yourself? In the past two weeks, two films, made for two generations, have sought to answer that question. Both are comedies, both rated R, and both come to the most dismal answers imaginable. I think it was Francis Schaeffer who argued that this is the first generation of pe...

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