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“Reservation Road,” which opens this Friday, has nothing to do with the forthcoming “Revolutionary Road,” though both are adapted from books about families in crisis. The former, directed by “Hotel Rwanda”‘s Terry George and based on John Burnham Schwartz’s excellent novel of the same name, is set in Stamford, Connecticut, where boats drift across the…

Wow! Another “Ten Commandments” movie is coming out and its getting a lot of buzz. For instance, “Hollywood Takes On the Ten Commandments” read the Yahoo headline. “Film producers take action with Oct. 19 animated release starring Ben Kingsley, Elliott Gould, Christian Slater.” Fox News reported on the controversy of Radio Disney wanting the word…

Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography isn’t the first biography about Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, but according to at least one review, it might be the deepest, and offer some insights into the spiritual journey behind the beloved comic strip. Charles Schulz died in 2000 and had been known as one of the more enigmatic and…

Ah, the black love story. It is de rigueur for black actors and the bane of existence for black audiences with discriminating taste, but it has become the necessary evil for anyone that wants to see people of color portrayed in a positive light on the big screen. “Love Jones” is the first black love…

Anyone wanting to see America’s religion at work might tune into HBO tomorrow evening for the documentary “Run, Granny, Run,” chronicling the unlikely 2004 campaign of a 94-year-old New Hampshire woman named Doris Haddock for a seat in the U.S. Senate. Haddock first made her name in politics in 1999, when, as Granny D., she…

It’s especially cruel to hear that Imus is back in the middle of my local public radio station’s pledge drive. After being hounded off his morning radio and cable TV slot for referring to Rutgers University’s women’s basketball team in ugly terms, Don Imus is reportedly returning to New York’s WABC, and the temptation to…

You know that sinking feeling you get when you take someone who hasn’t seen a great movie to see the long-awaited sequel to that film, and the follow-up doesn’t live up to it? It’s a strange form of guilt; a mixture of embarrassment and contrition. “I’m sorry,” you want to say. “The first one was…

Last night my husband and I saw the four-hour Peter Bogdanovich mega-documentary “Runnin’ Down a Dream: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers” during its one-night-only showing in Boston (the movie will soon be released on DVD). The film painted a remarkable picture of a career that spans more than 30 years and has channeled at various…

The new documentary “For the Bible Tells Me So” is framed by devout Christian families who tell moving stories of how they’ve navigated the challenges and ups and downs of facing their son or daughter’s sexual orientation in the context of a faith tradition that loves to shout in the streets and from the pulpit…

With numerous gold albums, music awards, and even a brief television career, probably the only thing left on Christian singer Amy Grant’s professional to do list, was to jot down her life experiences in a memoir. So it’s no surprise that in “Mosaic”, which arrives in bookstores today, Grant has collected family anecdotes, encounters with…
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