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Living the Sermon: A Review of 42

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Jackie Robinson’s Story When Brooklyn Dodgers owner Branch Rickey cooks up a plan to add a black man to the roster, he knows there will be pushback. “You break a law and get away with it,” says an advisor, “and some people will think you’re smart. You break an unwritten law; you’ll be an outcast.” “So be it,” says Rickey. The year is 1945, and the man for the job is Jackie Robinson. Starring the late Chadwick Boseman (of Marvel fame) and Harrison Ford, 42 chronicles Jackie’s rise and the…

Planning a Kingdom – A Review of King Richard

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“Don’t worry about what other people are thinking,” says Richard Williams to his daughters, future tennis phenoms Venus and Serena. “We are here getting great.” King Richard (2021) looks at the Williams sisters’ early years and makes a powerful argument that fathers shape the world, for good or for evil. While the entire cast turns in capable performances, Will Smith embodies the tenacious fatherhood of its titular character, a man whose passion, planning, and principles, as portrayed in the film, wrestled a dream into waking life. King Richard portrays Richard…

Ford vs. Ferrari: Manhood at the Crossroads

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“I had no idea!” says Henry Ford II, the calculating man, the money-general, weeping as he encounters—for the first time up-close—the sheer power of a metal wonder made by human hands. It’s a pivotal moment, yet James Mangold’s Ford v Ferrari pulls a dozen of these maneuvers with all the cool madness of a Ken Miles or a Carroll Shelby. Mangold delivers a tightly-written and multi-layered study of two kinds of men: those who master metal monsters and those under the mastery of a different sort of beast. When the…