WATCH NOW FACING THE GIANTS (not yet rated, PG): Grant Taylor (Alex Kendrick) coaches the Eagles, a Christian high school football team on a losing streak. That, combined with news that he and his wife, Brooke (Shannen Fields), are unable to have children, results in Grant becoming depressed. He rediscovers his faith in God by […]
WATCH NOW Classic children’s television show hosts like Mister Rogers and Barney make great role models for children, but their trite style makes them easy targets for adult jokes. Danny DeVito’s latest project, Death to Smoochy, is well-intended with its mockery of children’s television and those inane hosts, however it is completely misdirected in its
WATCH NOW FAHRENHEIT 9/11 Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore has once again created a polemical pseudo-documentary. This one attempts to explore and expose the contested issue of the legitimacy of George W. Bush’s presidency, his business links to Saudi Arabia and his motivations for beginning the war in Iraq. Moore uses the same personal, subjective
WATCH NOW FALLEN ANGEL This Hallmark Hall of Fame holiday special, based on the 2001 novel by Don J. Snyder, begins on nine year old Terry’s birthday when he is given a fingerprinting set. He fingerprints the little neighbor girl, Katherine Wentworth, who is visiting nearby Serenity Cottage, a summer place in Maine, even though
WATCH NOW A FAMILY THING Robert Duvall is Earl, an aging small-town Arkansan who discovers at the death of his elderly, beloved mother that she only raised him He was born of a brief affair between a black friend who died in childbirth and his irresponsible father. His mother’s last wish is that he find
WATCH NOW FAR FROM HEAVEN is writer-director Todd Haynes’s aesthetically gorgeous and genteel emulation of the 1950s so-called woman’s picture, with a major difference in frankness. Julianne Moore’s Cathy Whitaker is an affluent mother of two in 1957 suburban Hartford who seems to have everything. But, as the title suggests, this is not paradise. Haynes
WATCH NOW FATHER’S DAY Tacky on the surface, this first teaming of comics Robin Williams and Billy Crystal is a sentimental tribute to the joys and rewards of being a good father. It won’t make any all time comedy lists, but its aspirations are modest, probably something like the old Hope-Crosby series. The story is
WATCH NOW This precious little indie gives us the night in the life of 18 year old Ben Mercado (Dante Basco), who manages to face down his overbearing dad, realize his dream to go to art school, do a little breakdancing, get in a fight, and meet the love of his life all while attending
THE FIGHTING FITZGERALDS: This offering of Irish-American characters will have to labor to get beyond the clichés. It helps that the star is Brian Dennehy, both a movie and TV icon for years and a recent Tony winner for a revival of Death of a Salesman. But on this show he’s an Irish Archie Bunker.
WATCH NOW THE FIGHTING TEMPTATIONS Darrin Fox (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) is fired from his high-power job at a Manhattan advertising agency when his boss (Steve Warren) finds out he lied about going to Yale. Just then, Darrin learns that his Great-aunt Sally (Ann Nesby) has died in his hometown of Monte Carlo, Georgia. Her will
