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Even with few surprises A Dog’s Journey satisfies.  The characters are often rather shallow and predictable particularly Betty Gilipin as the daughter-in-law who keeps CJ (Kathryn Prescott) away from her grandparents who are played by Marg Helgenberger and Dennis Quaid.  She is an empty parent who drinks, spends her daughter’s inheritance and spends her evenings […]

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A frozen lake in St. Charles Missouri is the initial setting for this new formulaic, though not really evangelizing faith-based, first-time effort from Roxann Dawson (best known from Star Trek: Voyager). In time for Easter Breakthrough is based on actual events in early 2015 when 14-year-old Central American adoptee John Smith (Marcel Ruiz) fell through said lake’s […]

Based on a true story that takes place in 1971 in Durham, N.C. C.P. Ellis (Sam Rockwell) is the owner of a gasoline service station and the local leader of Durham’s Ku Klux Klan.  He’s asked to co-chair a number of community meetings with Ann Atwater (Taraji P. Henson), a civil rights activist. The elementary […]

Director Tim Burton presents a spectacular pallet filled with wonder and special effects along with the basic story of Dumbo, but his work does not have the heart and emotion of the original animated feature which I saw as a kid.  The base story deals with Holt Farrier’s (Colin Farrell) return to the circus following […]