‘The Pacific’: Beautiful horror
HBO's miniseries "The Pacific," produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, stunningly captures the raw realities of the U.S. Pacific campaign against the Japanese in WWII.
Sit back, relax and worship
"Passion: Awakening," which contains music from well-known Christian artists, is an easy listening, heavy worshipful kind of album.
Burton’s “Alice” is deeper, darker and a letdown
Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" goes deeper than other "Alice" tales, but it doesn't measure up to Burton's other films.
“The Crazies” delivers jumps, thrills and gore
How do you get audiences to pay $11.50 for a movie, which, at least initially, appears to scream sub-par? "The Crazies" can answer.
The Workday Release pushes the ordinary
The Workday Release, which has close ties to Biola, releases its new thought-provoking album "Farther Familiar."
“Shutter Island” entices with beauty, captures with acting
Audiences may question their own sanity after watching Martin Scorsese's psychological thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
“Percy Jackson” falls short of Mt. Olympus heights
“Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief” reaches for the heights of Mount Olympus, but only makes it as far as the great mountain’s entrance gates.
All-star cast can’t make audience love “Valentine’s Day”
Audiences with high expectations for "Valentine's Day" should be prepared to succumb to the cheesiness of a cliché romantic comedy.
Much brooding, little thought in “The Wolfman”
It takes very little to ruin a good film. Even with the best intentions, all it takes is one person to dismantle all the hard work of a hundred others.
“Avatar” offers breathtaking visuals but stale story
James Cameron uses an amazingly believable alien world to rehash an old natives-versus-colonists storyline.
