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Aug 5, 2019 · TEN BENNY. “The title refers to the shoe size of Paul Newman.”. Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz. This independent film written and directed by Eric Bross has the look and feel of all those other troubled blue-collar youth films that have inundated the market in recent times.
Jul 10, 2022 · The Son of God, Jesus Christ, went through a lot of trials and tribulations to save humanity from its sins and to lead it towards the path of the Heavenly Father. Even being the son of God didn’t provide any reprieve, or make things any easier for him.
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1.A Hidden Life
Against all odds, the once-reclusive filmmaker Terrence Malick became remarkably prolific in the last decade, such that one recent article declared the 2010s “the decade of Terrence Malick.” Of the five narrative films the Christian filmmaker released in this decade, the first (2011’s The Tree of Life) and the last (this year’s A Hidden Life) are the best. These two films are arguably two of the best films about faith ever made. The true story of a Christian who understood the cost of discipl...
2. The Irishman
People complain that Martin Scorsese’s three-and-half-hour gangster epic is too long; the propulsive plot ends about 30 minutes before the film does. But that slow-burn final half-hour, which may feel painful to viewers conditioned to quickly move on to the “watch next” thing, is more than just a coda. It’s the point of the film. However “cool” De Niro’s gangster character may seem for most of the film, in the end he’s a sad, frail man in a nursing home. Scorsese wants us to feel the crushing...
3. Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood
Every Quentin Tarantino movie is a love letter to Hollywood, but his latest is perhaps the most lovely and soft-hearted (I daresay even sweet) cinematic homage he’s ever made. Drenched in nostalgia but propelled by a present longing for justice—the 1969-set film powerfully captures the potential of movies to channel our ache for divine intervention and “reverse the curse” renewal. Never has a patented “explosively violent” Tarantino movie climax felt so pure—rather than exploitative. As I wro...
A Beautiful Day in The Neighborhood,Ad Astra (TGC review),Arctic,Diane,The Farewell, Ford v. Ferrari,Honey Boy,The Last Black Man in San Francisco,Little Women, MarriageStory (TGC review),Tolkien (TGC review), Transit, Us,Where’d You Go, Bernadette?, Yesterday (TGC review).
Here are 10 of the best documentaries released in 2019 (listed in alphabetical order), along with where you can watch them.
Stream Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway on Prime Video. Watchlist. NEW. Two CIA agents are inserted into a computer via virtual reality to destroy a virus called the Soviet Union. Prime...
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Apr 15, 2019 · For this article, I watched four films: the JESUS film (1979), The Gospel of John (2003), Son of God (2014), and The Savior (2017). Each film offers unique perspectives. The experience caused me to ponder the purpose, benefits, and dangers of viewing Jesus in film. Here are the things I learned.
Frustrated New Jersey shoe salesman Ray (Brody) borrows $10,000 from a local wiseguy in order to win enough money at the track to set himself up in business. Bad idea.
Ten Benny. (1995) This kitchen sink drama directed and co-written by Eric Bross of RESTAURANT fame follows a group of boyhood pals from suburban New Jersey -- chiefly charismatic Adrien Brody as Ray, a young shoe salesman (the original title, TEN BENNY, is shoe store slang for size 10B, supposedly the size one time customer Paul Newman wears ...
