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 All Movies and Memoirs Reviewed      

Movies

Action

Equalizer 2

Fury

13 hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

16 Blocks

Bourne

Blood Father

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

Erased

Tomb Raider

The Commuter

The Equalizer2

Honest Thief

 

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Biography

The Theory of Everything

The Man Who Knew Infinity

The Man Who Invented Christmas

First Man

Tolkien

 

Comedy

The Rewrite

Midnight in Paris

Secondhand Lions

Florence Foster Jenkins

The Wedding Plan

Downsizing

Yesterday

Fat Man

 

Documentary

Searching For Sugarman

Amy 

Many Beautiful Things

Steve McQueen: American Icon

I Am Israel

Operation Toussaint

Free Solo

The Men Who Built America (docudrama)

Grant (docudrama)

Show Me the Father

Paint the Wall Black

 

Drama

Southpaw

The Identical

The Good Lie

War Room

Secretariat

Flash of Genius

Mr. Holmes

Creed

Avalon

The Revenant

Risen

Whiplash

Young Messiah

The von Trapp Family: A life of Music

The End of the Tour

Ben-Hur

Ithaca

Mr. Church

Waiting For Forever

Genius

Magic Beyond Words: The JK Rowling Story

Unbroken

I'm Not Ashamed

The Shack (review by Robert LaCosta)

Priceless

Leave No Trace

Made in Italy

Stillwater

A Man Called Otto

 

Family

The Jungle Book

The Peanuts Movie

Blue Miracle

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Memoirs

 

Death of Santini

by Pat Conroy

 

After Leaving Friends

by  Michael Hainey

 

Impossible Odds

by Jessica Buchaman & Erick Landemalm with Anthony Flacco

 

A Sliver of LIght

Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal & Sarah Shourd

 

Billion Dollar Painter:The Triumph and Tragedy of Thomas Kinkade, Painter of LIght

by G. Eric Kuskey

 

Dear Leader: My Escape from North Korea

by Jan Jin-Sung

 

Witnessing to Dracula

by Billy Ng

 

The Glass Castle

by Jeannette Walls

 

 

 

 

 

Movies

Foreign

My Best Friend (comedy)

The Well-Digger's Daughter

The African Doctor

Frantz

William Kelly's War

Journey to Greenland

Loving Vincent

School of Life

One Man and His Cow (La Vache)

Delicieux

Up For Love

 

Historical

Selma

Belle

Suffragette

Free State of Jones

Race

Saints and Soldiers

Dunkirk

Darkest Hour

Waco

Roe V. Wade

Mr. Malcolm's List

 

Horror (lite)

A Quiet Place

A Quiet Place II

 

Literary Adaptation

Far from the Madding Crowd

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Musicals

The Greatest Showman

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Science Fiction

Jupiter Ascending

War for the Planet of the Apes

 

Superheroes

Thor Ragnarok

 

Thrillers

No Escape

Jurassic World

Eye in the Sky

Kong: Skull Island

 

True Story

Woman in Gold

Big Eyes

Million Dollar Arm

McFarland USA

Pawn Sacrifice

Alone Yet Not Alone

Testament of Youth

Bridge of Spies 

Joy

The Walk

Miracles from Heaven

Philomena    

Eddie the Eagle

Everest

The Finest Hours

Concussion

Hacksaw Ridge

The Straight Story

Lion

Queen of Katwe 

Hidden Figures 

Walking with the Enemy

I Can Only Imagine

15:17 to Paris

The Founder

The Upside

Green Book

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Dark Waters

Michael Landon: The Father I Knew

King Richard

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TV series (streaming)

The Queen's Gambit (7 episodes)

The English Game (6 episodes)

Wanted (18 episodes in 3 Seasons)

Alone (reality TV, 11 episodes, 7th season)

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Memoirs

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Heavy: An American Memoir

by Kiese Laymon

Catch Me If You Can 

by Frank Abernathy with Stan Redding

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Saving My Assassin

by Virginia Prodan

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Lone Survivor

by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson

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Growing Up Amish

by Ira Wagler

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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

by Byran Stevenson

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You Carried Me

by Melissa Ohden

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The Tank Man's Son

by Mark Bouman

 

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