Movies

The newly released movie “Jesus Revolution” brings to life the awakening that saw hippies come to Jesus Christ in the 1960s and ’70s. The movie stokes a sense of promise for each of our lives, no matter who may have rejected us or whom we…

Moviegoers are apparently feeling the Spirit. Premiering last week, revival-themed “Jesus Revolution” from co-director Jon Erwin (“I Can Only Imagine”) earned $15.8 million — one of the biggest first weekends ever for a faith-based…

Spoilers ahead. In 1985, in the Chattahoochee National Forest in Georgia, a bear came upon a trove of cocaine which had been dumped from a plane by trafficker Andrew Thornton. The bear then consumed either some or all of the drug and…

Marvel Studios’ latest release, “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” is bad; there is simply no other way to describe it. It is poorly written, with hamfisted exposition, and relies more on dreary but elaborate computer-generated imagery…

Sometimes, a book or movie tells a story to make a larger point. In the case of a new PBS documentary about the popular board game Monopoly, the movie made a point entirely opposite to its intended argument. By recounting the…

To no one’s surprise, this past week Disney announced it will soon begin producing even more sequels. In a quarterly earnings call, the company’s one true ruler, CEO Bob Iger, announced Disney Studios will soon start production on “Zootopia…

Are Hollywood power players finally waking up to how out of touch they’ve been? Released last week, the nominations list for the 95th Academy Awards surprised many for including films that most moviegoers have actually seen. …

Just when there were signs that Hollywood’s sycophantic relationship with China might be changing, earlier this month, Disney confirmed that Marvel movies are officially returning to theaters in the Middle Kingdom. “This is the first time…

Maybe we could use more irreverent but culturally meaningful output on race relations. “You People,” written by Jonah Hill and Kenya Barris, fashions itself such an effort. But really, it is just a millennial version of “Guess Who’s Coming…

LOS ANGELES – Method actor Austin Butler shared the lengths he went to in order to get into character of the legendary singer Elvis Presley by appropriating Black culture for profit for several years before filming began. “Some actors would…