DEAR GOD DEAR GOD is about people who write letters to God, which in our disciplined society end up in bins in the “dead letter” division at the post office, along with letters to Elvis, the Tooth Fairy, alien civilizations and others. It’s not a matter of belief or disbelief; the mail is just (for […]
WATCH NOW THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN is an intriguing new take on several eternal themes in literature. One is mother love, another is the returned captive. In this gripping adaptation of the Jacqueline Mitchard novel, a young suburban matron (Michelle Pfeiffer) loses her three year old son in a crowded Chicago hotel lobby.
WATCH NOW THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) and two colleagues are measuring climate changes in Antarctica when the ice ledge on which they are encamped breaks apart. Soon after, Jack is in New Delhi speaking at a conference on global warming. He encourages government officials to act soon to stop the effects
WATCH NOW DELIVER US FROM EVIL Filmmaker Amy Berg has created a harrowing, heartbreaking, dramatically powerful documentary about Father Oliver O’Grady, described on the film’s Web site as “the most notorious pedophile in the history of the Catholic Church.” (Berg assures me personally that everything in the film is documented.) This Irish-born priest ministered in
WATCH NOW THE DEPARTED Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, “Evermore in this world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.” This film is a testament to just how infested human societies can become with rats, both large and small, old and young. Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson) is an Irish-American crime boss
WATCH NOW THE DISH In this bright comedy from Australia, The Dish is a real object, a humongous 1,000-ton radio telescope, one of the most powerful in the world, built somewhat incongruously on the edge of remote Parkes, New South Wales, in the middle of a sheep paddock. In 1969, the scientists who run it
WATCH NOW THE DEVIL’S OWN is a humane thriller based on the idea that a law-abiding American-Catholic policeman offers room and board to a young Irish immigrant who is actually a fugitive I.R.A. revolutionary. Both actors (Harrison Ford as the cop, Brad Pitt as the stranger) are loaded with charisma. Pitt’s character has killed 24
WATCH NOW DISNEY’S THE KID How would you do if by some magic you were confronted and evaluated by your eight year old self? So you didn’t become a missionary or an astronaut or win the gold in Olympics gymnastics? You make a six-figure salary doing what? You don’t have a dog? That’s what happens
DOGMA Kevin Smith’s “comic fantasy” about angels and demons in contemporary New Jersey is mostly an excuse for him to vent about the Church and many of its rules. Smith, 29, is a budding talent with a couple of low budget hits (Clerks, Chasing Amy). He can’t be accused of anti Catholicism because he is
WATCH NOW Like watching a car try to beat a train across the tracks and failing The Day of the Dolphin is a jaw-dropping disaster that you can’t turn away from. Fortunately, this one is caught on film for posterity. If you’re unfamiliar with the movie, you won’t believe it’s really about this until you
