Contributor: Steven Isaac

Keeping the Faith

In New York City a priest and a rabbi both love the same woman. The three became fast friends as children. Now they’re reunited as adults.

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Still Hearing the Bells Ring

“Hear the bells ringing/They’re singing that you can be born again/Hear the bells ringing/They’re singing Christ is risen from the dead.” Those splendid lyrics bounce through my head at least once a year to this day even though it’s been almost 35 year …

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Alex & Emma

Based loosely on the story of how 19th century novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky came to write “The Gambler,” this movie is not much more than a simple love story.

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The Blair Witch Project

After interviewing a few local townsfolk about the Blair Witch legend, the three young adults hike deep into the nearby woods to get footage of locations associated with the legend.

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The General’s Daughter

Over the past few years, movies have begun showing violent crime in much grittier detail than in the past. “The General’s Daughter” follows these new rules of ultra-realistic portrayals to the letter.

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Soul Surfer

Junior-competition surfer Bethany Hamilton lost her arm to a shark in 2003. Today she’s giving God props for the wave of trouble that almost swamped her life.

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Blue Crush

In the past couple of years, the number of female surfers jumped 120 percent. Along with beachwear companies like Roxy, ‘Blue Crush’ is cashing in on girl wave power.

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March of the Penguins

If I were a penguin, what would I be doing right now? Why, watching myself in my own movie, that’s what. “See, Mom,” I’d be saying, “I told you I’d be a star some day!”

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The Santa Clause 2

In 1994, Scott stumbled on the Santa Clause and got himself rooked into becoming Santa. Now he finds out there’s ANOTHER clause.

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The Cider House Rules

Coming of age during World War II, lifelong orphan Homer Wells grows up under the kindly, albeit controlling hand of Dr. Wilbur Larch, a resident doctor at an orphanage in St. Clouds, Maine.

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Music of the Heart

It takes some persuasion, but Roberta lands a substitute position as a violin teacher at an inner-city grade school in East Harlem, New York. It’s rough going for awhile …

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Flags of Our Fathers

Clint Eastwood and Steven Spielberg write another chapter in cinema’s examination of the Second Great War. The result is emotional, visceral and devastating.

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Love Actually

Sentimental sludge with a saccharine coating of carnality, as if the filmmakers—afraid their mawkish melodrama might show too much—spliced nudity and sex throughout to trick critics into calling it edgy and artsy.

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“I Need a Doctor”

Dr. Dre has spent the last decade or so practicing his hip-hop medicine on others. His own work’s been mostly on hold. Why? The obscenity-riddled, angel-enhanced and Eminem-related story’s all on this track.

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The Dilemma

How do you go about telling your best friend about his wife and … a guy named Zip? This dreadful dilemma, though, isn’t even the biggest in the film.

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