Very occasionally a movie comes along that raises so many important issues, so clearly, so compellingly, that discussing it with friends seems mandatory. 13…

Mac Sledge, former country singer and current alcoholic, is in need of restoration—personal, vocational, relational. After landing at the bottom of the bottle, Mac…

No movie in recent memory so exemplifies the wisdom of the less-is-more principle than The Straight Story, David Lynch’s G-rated, true story of Alvin…

Alvin Straight is in his seventies and lives in Iowa with his daughter, Rose. Rose is the only family he knows except Lyle, his…

Fin, a man born with dwarfism, inherits an abandoned train depot in a rural town after the death of a friend and co-worker. Instead…

It is frankly difficult to review Run Lola Run. Not because the plot is so complicated that it frustrates attempts to summarize it, but…

Rob Gordon, a not-so-thriving independent record store owner in Chicago, makes lists: Top 5 dream jobs, Top 5 songs for any situation, and Top…

Heaven introduces us to Philippa, a schoolteacher who commits a crime in the name of justice, and Filippo, a policeman who helps her escape,…

Enid and Rebecca have just graduated from high school, and they’re let loose to spend their summer in, by their estimations, a lame town,…

Edward Bloom is dying of cancer, and his son, alienated from his father, makes one last visit in hope of finding out the truth.…