Filmmakers searched over five continents for the people whose lives have been transformed by this mysterious man, Joseph of Nazareth, the humble figure barely mentioned in the Bible. Husband of Mary. Foster - Father of Jesus. Protector of the Church. Patron of the Dying. Terror of Demons. These are some …
Mark Wahlberg and Mel Gibson aren’t real world men of God, but they play them in the movies. Wahlberg stars as Stuart Long, a hard-living pugilist whose doctor cautions that it’s time to hang up the gloves. Next stop: showbiz, where homophobic Stu counters a casting agent’s advances with one …
The world's most unlikely priest is back in theaters in time for the holidays. When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Sunday school teacher who seems immune …
During the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir must navigate overwhelming odds, a skeptical cabinet, and a complex relationship with U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as millions of lives hang in the balance. Directed by Guy Nattiv, starring Camille Cottin, Helen Mirren, and Liev Schreiber.
The premise suggests a potential wellspring of divertissement: in the midst of a likely government shutdown of Santa’s workshop, Billy (Chance Hurstfield), a rich kid who didn’t get what he wants for Christmas, hires a hitman (Walter Goggins) to ice Father Frost. The writing and directing team of Eshom Nelms …
A dud about the bomb. The top-secret doings at Los Alamos are understandably not understandable, and they seem to roll along without assistance while the actors coil for the next big polemical haymaker: "It's all about ass, isn't it? Ya kick it or ya lick it." The biggest wallop, however, …
"We have a choice about how to tell sad stories," says 17-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster (Shailene Woodley, adorable) at the outset. There is the Hollywood way to do it, of course. But, she says, "this is the truth. Sorry." She's not actually sorry, and notice is hereby served: this is …
Reasonable facsimile of comic sophistication: a thirty-something housewife, still fantasizing about the high-school football hero whom she never went as far as sleeping with, sends her best single girlfriend on a romantic reconnaissance mission, and very soon lives to regret it. The essential middle-class propriety of the thing withstands some …
Can a movie with that title possibly be funny? A British-accented French farce (the title on screen is spelled out The Favour, etc.) of grim whimsy, desperate impiety, exasperating mistaken identities, aggravating missed connections. The perspiry comic style of Bob Hoskins, the air-conditioned comic style of Natasha Richardson, and the …
At the outset of director Yorgos Lanthimos’ gorgeous, witty, bawdy, bruising, depressing, and disheartening romp amid the English royals, Emma Stone — playing Abigail, a clever girl from a fallen family — faces an unpleasant choice: either tolerate the wretched sexual attentions of a man or be cast out into …
The Fallbrook Bonsall International Film Festival 2024 will be screening innovative and thought-provoking films from around the world.
The Fallbrook Bonsall International Film Festival 2024 will be screening innovative and thought-provoking films from around the world.
The Fallbrook Bonsall International Film Festival 2024 will be screening innovative and thought-provoking films from around the world.