This is the touching story of Whitwell, Tennessee,a small coal mining community (population 1600) outside of Chatanooga. The population is almost entirely white and entirely Christian. When the lo...
This is what big summer blockbuster studio movies are all about -- love, honor, humor, villains evil enough to make it really satisfying when they are beaten and scary enough to keep you wondering ...
This is a question asked several times during this movie, based on the exquisitely lovely Chris Van Allsburg book. It is a fitting question for a story about a boy strugglin...
Claireece (newcomer Gabourey 'Gabby' Sidibe) is a 16-year-old, still in middle school, illiterate, pregnant with her second child. The first baby has Down Syndrome. Both pregnancies are the resul...
Another sweet lollipop of a movie, “Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement” picks up five years later than the first and, though missing some of the original’s spark and humor, it's a pleasant...
People often speak of "opening up" a play when it is made into a movie. In one sense the Tony- and Pulitzer-prize winning Broadway production of "Proof" has been opened up. Instead of entirely ta...
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