In The Time of the Butterflies

Everybody has heard about the big bad guys like Hitler and Stalin, and maybe a few others. This movie tells the story of one more of the probably countless other little Hitlers most of us have never heard about and some of his victims. It makes you wonder where the people who stood up against them in spite of the odds took the courage. But they did. Somehow God must have given it to them, and in the end, the good side finally won. It has always been like that, and it will always be like that, even during the time of the greatest Hitler this world will have ever seen.

The greatest challenge, as this movie brings out, is always to wake up the sleeping masses who don't want to know what's going wrong. It's always been like that, and from the look of it, it always will...

Freedom Writers

Ooops, almost forgot about this one! Great and a must see for anyone dealing with young people!

Surf's Up

Of all the penguin movies that have come out over the past few years, I guess this one’s my favorite. Light entertainment only, though, no big life-changing experience.
(Of course, the story is about as true as Alice in Wonderland...)

But wait... there IS a lesson to be learned from the story: Every now & then you've got to forget about the "contest" or (rat race) of life and whether you're going to be a loser or a winner, and just enjoy the ride for the fun of it...
Once you get the hang of the fun of things (like doing your job for God), regardless of whether you're going to win the trophy (or crown), you actually start becoming good at it, and that's when you start becoming good at life itself.

The Great Debaters

Shows what the Afro-American population was up against in large parts of their country until not too long ago… Brilliant, if you like intelligent scripts.

Checking Out

An aged Jew in N.Y. (Peter Falk, alias Columbo) decides it’s time for him to “check out,” but upon realizing that folks around him don’t agree, finds out what a dumb and selfish idea that was.

Run Fat Boy Run

The moral of this British comedy: “The hare never made it, but the tortoise did.”

Resurrecting the Champ

No, this is not yet another boxing movie, but a movie about honesty vs. twisting the truth for personal advantage.

Charlie Wilson’s War

Shows what one man can do when he’s got the determination to do it. From an era when American foreign politics weren’t the bloody mess yet that they’ve become since.

Akeelah and the Bee

Great re-encounter with Laurence Fishburne (“Morpheus” from the “Matrix”) as tutor of a girl who participates in a spelling contest.

Michael Clayton

One of the better movies we've seen of late, and definitely one of the best roles George Clooney played in recent years.

P.S. I Love You

Ignoring some of the negative ratings this movie got on some Christian sites like Crosswalk, we went ahead and watched it anyway, and were not disappointed. Plus, the movie reveals one of the big secrets of all times about what it is that women really want...

The Bucket List

Yeah, that one was nice… What things would you do if you knew you were going to kick the bucket soon?

Dan in Real Life

One of the better comedies of what’s come out lately. Enjoyable.

The Last Mimzy

We really liked that one… apparently based on the whole “Alice in Wonderland” mystic, but cute & somewhat edifying. Again, it’s sometimes the seemingly useless little sister, not the smart alec big brother, who holds the key to the universe…

Second Hand Lions

The Kid from “Sixth Sense” and “Pay It Forward” is back. Though this movie isn’t quite as much of a mind blower as those predecessors, it’s a wild American fairy-tale with a few possibly-real-life ingredients that can be thoroughly enjoyed.

Juno

Neat movie about a teen girl who becomes pregnant and looks for the right foster parents for her child…

Next

Pretty good Sci-Fi about a dude (Nicolas Cage) who can look just 2 minutes ahead into the future… It does open a lot of possibilities…

Proof

While some folks may not like this movie, it certainly bore some lessons for me personally. It’s not always the apparently smart and adored professor types who come up with the solution to life’s problems (though their meaningless garble can strangely contribute to someone else finding it), but sometimes it’s the person you’d least expect to, who holds the key…

August Rush

Aren’t we all erring through our lives looking for our heavenly Father & Mother, singing our songs & playing our music in hopes they’re going to hear us & find us? When they do, that’s the magic moment that makes it worth it all.

Amazing Grace

Interesting what those guys who abolished slavery all had to go through, especially in the light of the fact that they finally won with a trick. Sometimes you’ve got to beat the Devil with his own weapons.