The Fighting Preacher
Starring: David McConnell and
Cassidy Hubert
Rated PG
Rated PG
Based on the true story of Willard Bean
who, in the early 1900's, gives up his career as a prize fighter to
become a preacher.
Every so often a small budget film
breaks through and really goes way above its pay grade, and provides
an experience you'd expect from a larger budget film.
“The Fighting Preacher” is one of those movies. It offers up the right amount of action, character development and humor to keep an audience watching and even laughing.
“The Fighting Preacher” is one of those movies. It offers up the right amount of action, character development and humor to keep an audience watching and even laughing.
Both David McConnell and Cassidy Hubert
deliver spot-on performances as the young married couple who travel
from Utah to New York and endure hatred and distrust when they arrive
to settle in their new home.
“The Fighting Preacher” is a wonderful surprise and deserves to be seen as a human adventure, not just another faith-based movie.
It gets an A and is rated PG.
The Lion King
Starring the vocal talents of: Donald Glover and Chiwetel Ejiofor
“The Fighting Preacher” is a wonderful surprise and deserves to be seen as a human adventure, not just another faith-based movie.
It gets an A and is rated PG.
The Lion King
Starring the vocal talents of: Donald Glover and Chiwetel Ejiofor
Rated PG
Disney revisits it's 1994 Oscar-winning
animated feature with an upgraded animated retelling of “The Lion
King” story.
What the 2019 version of “The Lion King” will leave audiences with is that it's an amazing technical achievement in animation and will be hailed as such. But once the eye gets used to the updated computer graphics, there is something missing.
Warmth and heart.
In retelling the story the producers forgot about the subtle nuances the human animators added to the soul of the film. The raising of an eyebrow, the smirk on Scar's face, the powerful presence of Mufasa all are missing and replaced with a cold and detached computer version, using this new “photo-scope” process.
And certainly the process is real-looking but in giving this particular animated film a photo-real look, the producers have also taken something away.
It is that intangible quality that put the original “Lion King” into a brand new level of animation, voice work and soundtrack. This version, although a wonder technically, left me a bit cold and hungry for the original.
Balancing all the pluses and minuses, “The Lion King 2019” gets a C and is rated PG.
