Gina Carano has developed an interesting pathway to Hollywood: through being a professional fighter. And a good one. Oh, and it doesn’t hurt that she’s good-looking, in a girl-next-door, slightly hard-edged but still a little vulnerable kind of way. You might even enjoy a lunch date with her. You just wouldn’t want her after you.

It was a risk, casting an unknown in the primary role.

“The Grey” is one of those rare contemporary films that not only mention faith, but holds a significant and serious discussion about it.

Glenn Close has been trying to get this movie made for oh, about 30 years or so.

Mavis Gary is a pathetic character, and yet, somehow, we care about her. She’s self-centered, delusional, amoral, depressed, addictive and self-destructive, but she wants so desperately for the world to be as she wants it to be, rather than how it is, that we almost wish it with her.

“Iron Lady” is the story of the doddering years of Margaret Thatcher, the former prime minister of Great Britain.  

OK, so it’s corny.  I still liked it.  For the believer, especially, it features some astounding aspects seldom seen in modern cinema:

          The battle for Bosnia was the bloodiest combat since World War II, but it did not raise our national awareness like, say, the Gulf War.

We feel for Chris Farraday (Mark Wahlberg). In his younger years, he led a life of crime, but somehow he has been able to get out of “the life” and go straight, without anybody coming after him, either the law or his former cohorts. His successors in the international smuggling business have apparently felt no need to eliminate him as a potential informant.

Originally titled, in French, “The God of Carnage,” and written as a play, this one definitely looks staged, and definitely worships chaos.