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This Month's Movie: Flatland
Join us Sunday, July 26th, at 8 pm ET/6 pm MT for the movie discussion of the animated movie "Flatland."
The play sheet for Flatland can be found at the below link.
https://www.drivehq.com/file/df.aspx/publish/RAkers/MovieGroup/FlatlandPlaysheet.pdf
This Month's Movie: Avatar
Join us Sunday, August 23rd at 8 pm ET/6 pm MT for the movie discussion of Avatar.
This Month's Movie: Cloud Atlas
Join us Sunday, October 25th, 2020 at 8pm ET/ 6pm MT for the movie discussion of "Cloud Atlas." This discussion will be facilitated by Rev. Kelly Barber.
Actors (Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Jim Broadbent) take on multiple roles in an epic that spans five centuries. An attorney harbors a fleeing slave on a voyage from the Pacific Islands in 1849; a poor composer in pre-World War II Britain struggles to finish his magnum opus before a past act catches up with him; a genetically engineered worker in 2144 feels the forbidden stirring of human consciousness - and so on. As souls are born and reborn, they renew their bonds to one another throughout time.
-Overview credit to Google
This Month's Movie: Shawshank Redemption
Join us Sunday, November 22, 2020 at 8 pm ET/6 pm MT for the discussion of the movie, "Shawshank Redemption." This discussion will be facilitated by Rev. George Maddox.
Bank Merchant Andy Dufresne is convicted of the murder of his wife and her lover, and sentenced to life imprisonment at Shawshank prison. Life seems to have taken a turn for the worse, but fortunately Andy befriends some of the other inmates, in particular a character known only as Red. Over time Andy finds ways to live out life with relative ease as one can in a prison, leaving a message for all that while the body may be locked away in a cell, the spirit can never be truly imprisoned.
-Overview credit to Dave Moody
This Month's Movie: The Man Who Knew Infinity
Join us Sunday, December 27, 2020 at 8 pm ET/6 pm MT for the discussion of the movie, "The Man Who Knew Infinity." This discussion will be facilitated by Ron Raitz.
This Month's Movie: The Razor's Edge
Join us Sunday, January 24th at 8pm ET/6pm MT for the discussion of the movie, "The Razor's Edge." This discussion will be facilitated by Rev. Kelly Barber.
The Razor's Edge is a 1944 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It tells the story of Larry Darrell, an American pilot traumatized by his experiences in World War I, who sets off in search of some transcendent meaning in his life. The story begins through the eyes of Larry's friends and acquaintances as they witness his personality change after the war. His rejection of conventional life and search for meaningful experience allows him to thrive while the more materialistic character suffer reversals of fortune.
-Overview credit to Wikipedia
This Month's Movie: As It Is In Heaven
Join us Sunday, February 28 at 8 pm ET/6 pm MT for the discussion of "As It Is In Heaven." This discussion will be facilitated by Rev. Jacquelyn Eckert.
A successful international conductor suddenly interrupts his career and returns alone to his childhood village in Norrland, Eastern Europe. It doesn't take long before he is asked to come and listen to the fragment of a church choir, which practices every Thursday in the parish hall. Just come along and give a little bit of good advice. He can't say no, and from that moment, nothing in the village is the same again. The choir develops and grows. He makes both friends and enemies. And he finds love.
- Overview credit to Sonet Film
This movie is available to view free of charge for purposes of the Movie Discussion Group at this link: As It Is In Heaven.
Here is a link to a playsheet designed to facilitate contemplative movie watching: As It Is In Heaven Playsheet.
This Month's Movie: My Octopus Teacher
Join us Sunday, March 28th at 8pm ET/6pm MT for the discussion of "My Octopus Teacher." This discussion will be facilitated by Rev. George Maddox.
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A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.
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After years of swimming every day in the freezing ocean at the tip of Africa, Craig Foster meets an unlikely teacher a young octopus who displays remarkable curiosity. Visiting her den and tracking her movements for months on end he eventually wins the animal's trust and they develop a never before seen bond between human and wild animal.
Overview credit to yusufpiskin
This Month's Movie: Ruby Sparks
Join us Sunday, April 25, 2021 at 8 pm ET/ 6 pm MT for the discussion of "Ruby Sparks." This movie discussion will be facilitated by Ron Raitz.
Synopsis Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing - as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him.
-Overview by Script Slug
This Month's Movie: The Sound of Metal
Join us Sunday, May 23, 2021 at 8 pm ET/6 pm MT to discuss "The Sound of Metal."
The movie discussion this month will be facilitated by Jackie Greggs.
Summary:
-Overview by Metacritic
This Month's Movie: Same Kind of Different as Me
Join us Sunday, June 27th 2021 at 8 pm ET/6 pm MT.
This month's movie discussion group will be facilitated by Kelly Barber.
Summary:
In many ways, our world today is focused on divisions, on differences. Differences between people of different gender and race, between people of different economic status, between people of different belief systems. It’s easy, perhaps even natural, to find members of our same “tribe,” those who share our worldview and our demographic traits.
It’s much less natural to reach across those boundaries, to try to understand others’ experiences, to serve those who have almost nothing in common with us. It’s easier to ignore them—especially the homeless—to act as if they don’t exist.
Debby Hall doesn’t do that. She doesn’t talk much about her faith, but it obviously inspires her to act with love. She’s determined to make a positive difference, sometimes just by being present with people who haven’t been asked what their names are in a very long time.
Debby’s servant’s heart and sacrificial love has a radical impact upon her husband, Ron. And together, their love impacts Denver Moore as well, a man whose life has been nothing but one oppressive, violent experience after another.
It’s an inspiring true story, and we learn that it eventually inspired Ron Hall to record it all in a book. Together, he and Denver helped to raise a reported $90 million (according to Ron Hall) for homeless shelters across the country—a remarkable harvest reaped from the seeds planted by his wife’s simple-but-profound love.
Along the way, this profound story reminds us that no matter how deep the differences that separate us, just a bit of love may help us to see others’ dignity instead of choosing not to see them at all.
-Overview by Unplugged
This Month's Movie: Peaceful Warrior
Join us Sunday, July 25th, 2021 at 8 pm ET/6 pm MT to discuss "Peaceful Warrior." Watch with inner guidance and bring your insights to share with the group. This month's movie discussion will be facilitated by Ron Raitz.
Dan Millman, currently studying at UC-Berkeley, is a world class gymnast specializing in the rings, hence his nickname "Lord of the Rings". He works hard, training seven days a week, fifty weeks out of the year. In the lead up to the Olympic trials in just over a year, he knows he could be the best in the world and win Olympic gold, but his constant overthinking especially having the constant fear that it will all be taken away, leads to inconsistency and self-doubt. With his innate skill in a sport he loves, a 4.0 GPA, and all the sex he wants, he knows he should be happy - he telling people that he is so - but if he were to look deep in his heart, he knows he isn't. One of the symptoms of his life is that he has insomnia. It is during one of his sleepless nights that he meets an older service station operator he sarcastically nicknames Socrates for his philosophical musings. Beyond Socrates' mumbo-jumbo, Dan cannot ignore what appears to be Socrates' almost other worldly physical feats, something of which Dan can only dream for himself. As such, Dan convinces Socrates to take him under his wing to teach him how to achieve such feats. At times, Socrates is a reluctant teacher as Dan is not grasping the meaning of what he is trying to convey. Similarly, Dan is sometimes a reluctant pupil not grasping how what Socrates tells him will help him achieve Olympic gold. Through the process, Dan does admit that some of what Socrates imbues in him leads to what Dan views as success. However, it isn't until what Dan strives for the most seems to be threatened in its entirety that he may fully understand Socrates' goal for him of true inner peace, which is at the heart of any warrior.
-Overview by Huggo
This Month's Movie: Inception
Join us Sunday, September 26th, 2021 at 8 pm ET/6 pm MT to discuss "Inception." Watch with inner guidance and bring your insights to share with the group. This month's movie group will be facilitated by Kelly Barber.
Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a thief with the rare ability to enter people's dreams and steal their secrets from their subconscious. His skill has made him a hot commodity in the world of corporate espionage but has also cost him everything he loves. Cobb gets a chance at redemption when he is offered a seemingly impossible task: Plant an idea in someone's mind. If he succeeds, it will be the perfect crime, but a dangerous enemy anticipates Cobb's every move.
- Overview by YouTube
