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What if the Rapture is not to as it has been alluded to in Thessalonians in the New Testament of the Christian Bible?
I do try to give films a good go of it when I try to enjoy them as art or simply entertainment. In terms of "Where the Wild Things Are," I tried to look at the picture trough the eyes of an unruly child, but I came up empty.
I think Gerard Butler is a fine actor in the right film and the right script. This was not that film.
The film is about an important issue; not exactly well constructed and not so well told.
Basically it is the tale of two movies. The first film is the dealing of a modern Jack Black perception of dealing with Cave Man issues...
Director Matt Aselton, who shares the writing duties with Adam Zagata, cast Zooey Deschanel as Harriet / Happy an eccentric free spirit, who cannot abide attachment to conventional relationships
Sue Claussen, a traveling salesman, who the socially impotent Mike takes a fancy to when she beds down for the night at the local Mom and Pop motel somewhere in small town, Arizona. Mike is smitten by "America's Sweetheart" posing as a corporate salesperson and he finally finds something worth attaining - but is he worthy?
The sweetest, and possibly the most naive girl in Kentucky is getting married. Her name is Camille, and we, the audience, are invited to the wedding, and possibly, to witness the rest of her life.
Some films have great success in spite of themselves. This is very rare. Most films try to stress a point, an issue; communicate a series of thoughts, and bridge the gap between artist ...
Jody Hill, who wrote and directed "The Foot Fist Way," tried for an encore performance, with "Observe and Report," but fell just short of a repeat performance.
A multi-strand narrative set in early 1980's Los Angeles, centered on an array of characters who represent both the top of the heap (a Hollywood dream merchant, a dissolute rock star, an aging newscaster) and the bottom (a voyeuristic doorman, an amoral ex-con).
A picture built on its leading characters' self discovery as they age toward some sense of maturation that still seems to be a fleeting concern.
He is dropped of at the pre-arranged location, but his grandfather does not pick him up and the parents have hurriedly fled. The grandfather has died only moment earlier, succumbing to a massive coronary, and the boy is forced to fiend for himself as he adjusts to a world without his parents.
The world is ruled by four mega corporations that are bent on interminable fight amongst themselves. It is a world that is devoid of natural resources and the technology has reverted back to steam engines; however, Mankind still retains the ability to colonize Mars.
"In Tranzit" is the story of how these same women soldiers of Leningrad dealt with the tending of Male Wehrmacht prisoners nearly a year after the end of the war.
This plodding, short on reasonable dialogue, remake of the Wes Craven film, released in 1972, is watchable if you love gore, rape scenes, long strung out vengeance battles between good and evil foes, with an eventual outcome that may leave you satisfied, and then again, it may not.
This film dealt with the most significant issue of the Bosnian war - the war crimes of genocide of that civilian population of indigenous Bosnians and Croatians. It is the story the Justice by the prosecution of the most significant war criminals, such as Slobodan Milosevic', by interested parties, including the United States and Canada.
A college grad lands a job as a financial journalist in New York City to support where she nurtures her shopping addiction and falls for a wealthy entrepreneur.
The fan boys leave their small town for a cross country trek to steal the original print of the latest and highly anticipated prequel from the home editing studio at George Lucas's "Skywalker Ranch" in northern California. They are not wanting to take possession of the print for financial gain, they only wish to be the first ones to see it.
Convicted felon Rev. Armstrong returns back to his neighborhood a changed man looking to take over his father's old church which is in a small steel town; that is riddled with drug dealers, their overseer is a menacing minion of Hell.
The haunting takes place in a home that was once a mortuary, whose malevolent mortician's purposeful degradation of dead human bodies; supposedly to seal their spirits to his will from beyond the paranormal dimension between the spirit's life and their eternal hereafter.
These special people have the potential to do great harm to others with these special powers and to humanity as a whole. While the potential to do great harm to our civilization is always a potential reality, the picture concentrates on those folks with special powers doing great harm to each other, and the violence is copious.
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