In Theaters: August 25, 2017

There are THREE wide releases this weekend.

All Saints

The Christian film industry would like you to know that the guy from My Big Fat Greek Wedding is now old.

In All Saints, John Corbett plays a pastor who is sent to a church to oversee its downsizing.  There aren't enough people attending, and it's going broke.  While everyone encourages him to just let it happen and not drum up some scheme, he comes up with an almost Field-of-Dreams-esque plan to save the church, turning excess land into farmland, and some recent immigrants (with skill in farming) into farmers.

All Saints looks like another run of the mill faith-based film to me.  There will eventually be another Christian film that elevates the genre, but likely not this one.

All Saints is rated PG for thematic elements.

Birth of the Dragon

So for some reason they decided to make a movie about Bruce Lee.

Normally I wouldn't feel so against a movie about an old actor, but Bruce Lee is still a household name, and remains a sort of pop culture icon.  He is not even close to forgotten, and I just think these movies work better when they are able to revive interest in a historic figure, instead of ride the wave of their popularity.

The action scenes look pretty amazing though.

Birth of the Dragon is rated PG-13 for martial arts violence, language and thematic elements.

Leap!

It just looks awful.  It really does.  I'm sorry, my readers know I like reporting good things about movies, but I am bound by honesty.

Leap! is about two orphans in France (time period indicated by the partially constructed Eiffel Tower) who escape their orphanage to chase their dreams.  The boy wants to be an inventor and the girl wants to be a ballerina.  Count on the girl being the main character.  In other markets this movie is actually called Ballerina.

Balleri - I mean Leap! is rated PG for some impolite humor, and action.

      Big Shot Critic