Kiefer Sutherland stars in this smart and hopeful drama about the ties that bind all of us together. Single father Martin Bohm (Sutherland) struggles to raise his emotionally challenged son Jake. But Martin soon discovers that Jake possesses an amazing gift: the ability to see the hidden patterns of numbers that connect every life on […]
Archives for September 2015
Betty & Coretta
Betty & Coretta is a film produced by Lifetime about two extraordinary women; Coretta Scott King (Angela Bassett), wife of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Betty Shabazz (Mary J. Blige), wife of Malcolm X. King. After their husbands’ tragic assassinations, they developed a unique friendship spanning three decades as they carried on the Civil Rights […]
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1956 remake of his own 1934 spy thriller is an exciting event in its own right, with several justifiably famous sequences. James Stewart and Doris Day play American tourists who discover more than they wanted to know about an assassination plot. When their son is kidnapped to keep them quiet, they are caught […]
The Legend of Bagger Vance
The Legend of Bagger Vance doesn’t break any new ground, but with Steven Pressfield’s inspirational novel to guide them, director Robert Redford and screenwriter Jeremy Leven have tilled fertile soil with a graceful touch. Redford does for golf what A River Runs Through It did for fly-fishing: the sport is a conduit for a philosophy […]