“Mully,” a film about Kenyan-born Charles Mully, is an incredible story of his life about being abandoned at age 6 to encountering Christ at age 16 and later becoming a successful business man, but he to ditch it all and established a home to shelter kids who have been abandoned like he once had been.
Far from heavenly, but not exactly hellish either, the tepid afterlife-focused thriller “Flatliners” (Columbia) is more like a visit to limbo.
Author feels the Catholic Church helps her to grow and sustain her relationship to God, connects her with other people and is a “conduit of grace, forgiveness, healing, wisdom and renewal.”
“American Made” (Universal), the wild, fact-based story of airline pilot-turned-gun-runner Barry Seal (Tom Cruise), is far too turbulent for youngsters and even too bumpy for most of their elders.
A movie committed to scriptural values, the sober drama “A Question of Faith” (Pure Flix), will appreciate the film’s showcasing of a strong marriage as well as its emphasis on forgiveness and interracial harmony.
When Mother Joanna Jamieson went back to art school after more than 60 years in a Benedictine convent, she was likened by one British national newspaper to an “intergalactic time traveler” who hadn’t heard a record by the Beatles or seen a James Bond film.
Lots of blood and little sense characterize the second-rate horror flick “Friend Request” (Entertainment Studios).
In following up on 2014’s “The Lego Movie” and “The Lego Batman Movie” from earlier this year, directors Charlie Bean, Paul Fisher and Bob Logan — the latter two also co-writers, along with four others — attempt to blend a children’s feature and an action film.
