Transcendence is the latest in a long line of films which peer into the shadows of the technological future and try to prefigure the darkness and/or wonderment that could wait for us there. It stars Johnny Depp as Will Caster,... continue

Spoiler alert: This review details key scenes in the movie and its ending.He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names. (Ps. 147:4)Movies like Gravity gave birth to terms like groundbreaking. After audiences were... continue

"A near-perfect movie," said Time magazine's Richard Corliss in reference to Kathryne Bigelow's film, The Hurt Locker,"  a tense military drama following an elite Army bomb squad unit which turned out to be one of the most critically acclaimed films... continue

A few years ago, on a warm spring afternoon in Jackson, MS, I detected a note of surprise in the man's voice. He had just finished a PhD on Tolkien and was delighted by the questions of my dear friend... continue