Bruce St. James and Pamela Hughes

An Olympic athlete joins the army during World War II. As he and his team are flying over enemy waters, their plane crashes and they are forced to survive off basic rations in a raft for 47 days. When they are rescued, it is by the Japanese and he is taken to a prisoner-of-war camp […]

Stunning. Let’s set aside the wisdom of encouraging kids to steal firearms from their parents for a minute. In a world where students have been suspended (and even arrested) for offenses from fingers, pencils and Pop Tarts in the shape of guns, what sense does it make to tell kids “scared” of guns to bring […]

As the final installment of the “Night at the Museum” series, this movie falls in between the first two — not as good as the first but much better than the second.

Annie, an orphan who lives in a foster home with a mean foster mom, gets an opportunity at a new life. Will Stacks, a rich politician looking to make a good PC move for his campaign, takes her in. At first, Stacks finds her as an annoyance but ultimately begins to like having Annie around […]

Imagine your close friend, neighbor or family member is a struggling single parent undergoing cancer treatment. What would you do to help?

Rather than scroll through Netflix, we asked Bruce St. James, our local movie review guy, to tell us his top 10 movies of 2014. He didn’t disappoint.

In an attempt to save Middle Earth from being destroyed by Smaug and acquiring a kingdom, Bilbo and his companions must engage in a war. If you haven’t seen the previous two “Hobbit” films, I do not recommend starting on this one. It will literally make no sense to you. It starts right where the […]

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Moses leads the revolution against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses. The revolt leads to 600,000 people escaping from both Egypt and deadly plagues. There is nothing necessarily wrong with this movie, but I’d also say there’s nothing necessarily really right with it. I found it interesting that the storyline, while obviously based on religion, didn’t come […]

“The Imitation Game” is the true story of Alan Turing, the father of the computer and his team during World War II. Turing is a mathematician and is tasked with solving the Enigma Code, a German coding language. Instead of being hailed a hero by the British government for helping to end the war early, […]

Inconsistency in thought, ideology and logic is something I enjoy pointing out, granted, rather inconsistently myself.

One Florida family has already encountered Santa this holiday season.

A young woman’s life recently fell apart. To find herself, she decides to take a 1,100-mile hike across the country along the Pacific Crest Trail. As she walks she recalls her life: a divorce, her mother’s death and past destructive behavior. I wasn’t really sure which way this film was going to go, but I […]

With the holidays approaching, many families in Phoenix are still wondering where the next meal will come from.