My 82-year-old father is a Korean war vet who’s reached a state is life where he needs to claim the benefits he won for the 18-months he spent in harm’s way. And perhaps more urgently than ever. Which is why I’m thanking Kevin and Jeanie Bock for the pro bono work they’re doing, and recommending them to those of you who may need their services.
Dad Fell, So I’m Singing Amen to Two Veteran Angels
April 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Movie recco: ‘Of Gods and Men’
November 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Seven of the nine main characters in their chapel huddling as a helicopter gunship hovers outside -- one of the scenes that makes for suspense sans any 'real' action.
Never from this movie would I have expected suspense, but for most of its two hours “Of Gods and Men” made me feel like I was watching a Jason Bourne flick instead of one about a gentle group of French monks. Never mind it had no action hero. Actually, there was no action – and only the faintest insinuations of graphic violence.
Instead the movie, in French with subtitles, makes high drama out of the inner agonies of nine mostly aging French Trappists in a setting that barely strays beyond the walls of their simple Algerian monastery.
And that’s why I’m recommending it to friends as a must-see film. It shows the meek have a shot of inheriting the Earth and Hollywood too. [Read more...]
