We watched this movie last night.

It’s about Sudanese refugee boys who flee for their lives to Ethiopia and then to Kenya. In Kenya they live in a refugee camp until some of them are given the opportunity to start a new life in the United States. It’s a powerful movie about some of the harsh realities in this world and how some very resilient people courageously make their way through the variety of challenges they face.

Those people you see in the films are not actors. They are actual participants in the events being described. It’s a wonderful film.

We went and saw this movie tonight and we loved it.

While some reviewers say the third film is the best of the series, I don’t think it’s absolutely necessary to take the step of drawing that conclusion.  Each of the three films is excellent and this third one fits very well with the others.  If you enjoyed the the Bourne Identity and the Bourne Supremacy, chances are you’ll really like the Bourne Ultimatum as well.

Before seeing the movie I read a bunch of reviews.  Five or six critics loved the movie and rated it very highly.  Only one was negative and for some reason he said he hated it.   I suspect the one negative review had more to do with the critic not liking a certain kind of movie, rather than the movie itself being a problem.

I think this might be my favorite movie of the summer.  Quality-wise, the only other summer movie I find comparable is Rescue Dawn.  But that’s a different kind of show and the comparison probably isn’t all that helpful - except as a suggestion to go see that movie as well.

Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespeare films have been among my favorite movies for a long time.For years I’ve wanted Branagh’s Hamlet to come out on DVD.

Finally, ten years after the original came out, it’s going to happen. The release date is August 14, 2007.

Wit is a movie starring Emma Thompson and Christopher Lloyd.

This is no popcorn movie. It deals with a harsh topic - the main character is a brilliant but strict (”uncompromising”) English professor who is suffering from stage four (”there is no stage five”) ovarian cancer.

However, this movie is as much about the indignities and degradations of medical care as it is about the ravages of cancer. A number of the more shocking scenes happen as the main character is treated by a doctor (one of her former students), who, to put it mildly, is much more of a researcher than a clinician. Part of the agony of the experience is that this patient not only suffers from this characteristic, but identifies with it. She somewhat regretfully remembers being singlemindedly focused on her studies at the expense of human contact and meaningful relationships.

The suffering this character experiences leads towards introspection and contemplation of her particular specialty: John Donne’s poetry. At times she recites this poetry, particularly lines that deal with issues of mortality and eternal life. Anyone who remembers Neal A. Maxwell stating that “death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma” will be reminded of this point again. In her introspection, the main character also remembers how she interacted with her mentor, colleagues and students.

This isn’t a movie that is going to help you like doctors. However, if you are a medical doctor, a medical student, a university professor or a student of literature, then this is probably a movie you should see.

Due to its morbid and mature subject matter, this is not a movie for children or even teenagers. There is one scene involving nudity in the context of a medical emergency.