A Man for All Seasons: Under Pressure

Robert Shaw and Paul Scofield. Photo: Columbia When it comes to the play ”A Man for all Seasons”, and its 1966 film adaptation, there were historical errors that Thomas More…

Raptures

In 1930s Torne Valley, the members of a religious cult expect a flying ark to descend from the heavens and take them to Palestine, but when disappointment sets in everything…

Wake Up Dead Man

Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) investigates the murder of a monsignor (Josh Brolin) in an upstate New York church; one of the suspects is Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor), a newly-arrived priest…

The Conjuring: Last Rites 

The fourth (and marketed as the last) Conjuring movie is primarily set in 1986, when the Warrens struggle with Ed’s failing health, meeting their daughter Judy’s new boyfriend, and reluctantly…

The Handmaid’s Tale 

This adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian tale of a future where the United States has been replaced by a theocracy called Giliad, where women are seen as servants to men…

Jesus Revolution

It gets off to a promising start, this film about the movement that became known for its ”Jesus freaks”, with a portrait of a pastor who in the late 1960s…

The Bells of St. Mary’s

Father O’Malley (Bing Crosby) arrives at a parish where he has to work with a group of nuns, headed by Sister Mary Benedict (Ingrid Bergman); their run-down school is in…

Going My Way

Father O’Malley (Bing Crosby) arrives at a church in New York City where his unconventional style worries the elder pastor (Barry Fitzgerald). In the 1940s, Leo McCarey focused on message…

Conclave

After the death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) gathers the College for a conclave where conservative and liberal forces clash. An excellent adaptation of Robert Harris’s novel that…

Heretic

When two Mormon missionaries (Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East) knock on the door of a house belonging to a friendly Englishman (Hugh Grant), they have no idea what they’re in for.…