Rocky V (1990) Rocky V is well-directed but there isn’t a major turning point in the story. The street brawl, instead of fighting in a boxing ring, is a turn off and didn’t do the Rocky image much good. All was forgiven, though. In terms of what’s happening now for the Balboa family: Rocky and…

Movie commentary Perhaps the biggest attraction of The Jungle Book (2016, USA) is its computer generated imagery. The visuals are wide, lush and beautiful. It’s rich and realistic state-of-the-art visuals. The animals are like ‘true’ animals. The jungle is as real as can-be, like watching the jungle on safari. Elephants, monkeys, and bears are around…

I did not want to mention too much about how symbolically bad the darkness is, in Star Wars Episode VII The Force Awakens (2015, USA). So I went back to the film’s premise and discovered a theme that sounded better. It was rediscovering Luke Skywalker. Luke (Mark Hamill) was the hero of the original trilogy.…

Mockingjay Part 2 (2015, USA), the final episode of The Hunger Games, is now available for home viewing. I think we were expecting more. It continues in the vein of the previous film, Mockingjay Part 1, in the same linear fashion, without finishing the series on a high. However, it rounded off the story cohesively and…

More from Beliefnet and our partners
More from Beliefnet and our partners