Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Strong pagan worldview with strong false religion/theology and strong occult elements but mixed with some Christian and moral elements, including some Christian symbols and metaphors in a dark battle against demonic evil, which posits a world where, sometimes, a dead person with intense feelings of love for another person or other people who died can return to life and set things right in a story about an evil man has made a pact with the Devil and has killed a young man’s “soul mate” lover, young man returns to life to obtain justice for his lover and save them both from Hell and movie creates sympathy for the hero to defeat the evil villain and save his lover, but something goes wrong and the young man is doomed to never to rejoin his lover after she resurrects, and so he sacrifices himself to be doomed to save her, but he still hopes that one day they will reunite in Heaven or the Afterlife, plus there are some Romantic notions about innocence and love mixed in within the movie’s worldview content;

Foul Language:

At least 39 obscenities (including many “f” words) and one strong profanity using the name of Jesus;

Violence:

Lots of extreme violence (among the most brutal we’ve ever seen at MOVIEGUIDE® in its history), and some strong violence includes two young lovers are captured and suffocated to death using two plastic bags in pretty graphic scene, and the title character shoots many bad guys to death in brutal ways, the most brutal such deaths occur in lengthy battle in lobby of opera house while opera is performed with the title character comes back to life and can’t be killed, stabbing many bad guys to death with a samurai sword and shooting bad guys in brutal ways including inserting the sword into one bad guy’s mouth and splitting another guy’s head, bad guys shoot the title character multiple times but he can’t be killed though he often stumbles and falls then rises again, bad guy stabs the title character through the chest with the character’s own sword, but the title character survives, title character breaks arms and legs of some bad guys during all the fighting, bad guy shoots a friend of the title character’s through the head, brutal fight between the title character and the main villain, people descend downward into deep water that in a symbolic way is supposed to lead them to Hell, main villain has made a deal with Satan to send “innocent” victims to Hell so the villain could live forever, one scene show the main villain whispering to a young woman and making her brutally kill another young woman (that’s how the villain allegedly makes the “innocent” girls he entices fit for Hell);

Sex:

Depicted scene of fornication in two shots, and an example of implied fornication;

Nudity:

Rear male nudity during sex, and some images of upper male nudity;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No tobacco use but two scenes of apparent marijuana smoking, and a scene where a young man and woman take an illicit pill of some kind; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Villain made a pact with the Devil, villain commands a criminal enterprise, villain deceives young people to corrupt them and gain new victims for Satan.

THE CROW (2024) is a reboot of a 1994 movie about a supernatural avenger who rises from the grave to get justice for him and his soul mate who were murdered by an evil man who’s made a deal with the Devil to corrupt innocent souls and send them to Hell. Based on a comic book series created in 1989, THE CROW has a strong, slightly mixed pagan worldview with false theology and occult themes combined with some light Christian, moral content, lots of strong foul language, some sexual immorality, and some of the most extreme and brutal violence MOVIEGUIDE® has ever seen in a movie.

The movie begins with a young woman named Shelly running from the henchman of an evil man named Vincent. Vincent has made a deal with the Devil to corrupt the souls of innocent young people and send them to Hell, in exchange for immortality. Vincent prefers young women, especially budding musical artists.

Shelly finds refuge in an isolated facility for juvenile delinquents, where she falls in love with a tattooed young man named Eric. However, Vincent’s minions, with help from Shelly’s corrupt mother, find her location. So, Eric helps Shelly escape the facility. Sadly, though, Vincent is able to finally track them down, and his men suffocate Eric and Shelly to death with plastic bags in a disturbing scene of murder.

Eric imagines Shelly and him falling downward to the bottom of the ocean. However, he suddenly wakes up in a railyard surrounded by crows. A mysterious older man tells Eric that, when a person dies, sometimes something so bad happens that your soul “cannot rest until you put the wrong things right.”

Eric vows to kill all the people who took part in Shelly’s murder. The older man promises that, if Eric keeps his love for Shelly “pure,” they can both return from the dead.

A violent battle between Eric and Vincent’s forces ensues on the streets of New York, culminating in an opera house and at Vincent’s country estate.

THE CROW is a paint-by-numbers revenge thriller with flashes of gothic horror. It has a strong pagan worldview containing false religion and occult elements. These are mixed with some Christian allusions and symbols and Romantic, Christian notions of innocence and sacrificial love. THE CROW also has lots of strong foul language, brief sexual immorality, and some of the most extreme and brutal violence MOVIEGUIDE® has ever seen in a movie.

Set at the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, Touch opens as Kristofer (played by Icelandic musician Egill Olafsson) discovers his memory is fading and, heeding the advice of his doctor to resolve any unfinished business, sets off for London, despite the imminent threat of a worldwide lockdown.

Through a series of flashbacks, we meet the younger Kristofer (played by the director’s son Palmi Kormakur) in London at the end of the 1960s.

Disillusioned by the contemporary political landscape, he drops out of university and takes a job washing dishes at a Japanese restaurant, where he is taken under the wing of the proprietor, Takahashi (Masahiro Motoki).

He meets Takahashi’s beautiful daughter Miko (model Koki, also known as Mitsuki Kimura, the daughter of Japanese pop icons Takuya Kimura and Shizuka Kudo) at the restaurant, and the pair soon begin a passionate affair.

The structure of Touch sees the events of the past and present converge in a climactic revelation that explains why Kristofer and Miko’s relationship ended.

Suffice to say, Miko and her father fled Hiroshima shortly after the atomic bomb was dropped in August 1945, with the dream of starting a new life in London.

Try as they might, the lingering impact of the event and the stigma of being hibakusha – atomic bomb survivors – would continue to impact their lives for many decades to come.

In Touch, his direction is gentle and unobtrusive, almost to a fault. The film’s perspective aligns with Kristofer, as he, and the audience, is kept in the dark while the film’s Japanese characters wrestle with their trauma off screen.

Rather than attempt to explore the deep emotional scars that burden Miko and her family, the film prioritises the nostalgic reminiscences of Kristofer’s first love.

During these moments, Touch captures moments of genuine warmth and youthful passion. But elsewhere the film proves hollow and reductive.

Miko and her family’s struggles remain largely unexplored, portrayed by Olafur and his director as simply the mystifying enigmas of an exotic people.

Backbeat, the word is on the street that Oasis is finally reuniting after 15 years.

After British newspaper the Sunday Times reported this weekend that feuding brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher were likely in the process of getting the band back together, Liam Gallagher seemed to confirm the rumors on social media.

In response to a Sunday Times post reporting that the siblings and former bandmates had “settled their differences” and would be returning to the stage as Oasis in London and Manchester next summer, Liam Gallagher wrote on X, “See you down the front.”

The “Wonderwall” and “Don’t Look Back in Anger” hitmakers are slated to play “multiple vast gigs” at Manchester’s Heaton Park and London’s Wembley Stadium, according to unnamed “industry insiders” cited in the Sunday Times.

Representatives for Oasis, Heaton Park and Wembley Stadium did not immediately respond Sunday to requests for comment.

After splitting up in 2009, frontman Liam Gallagher and guitarist Noel Gallagher pursued solo endeavors, and many Oasis loyalists lost hope that the siblings would ever repair their relationship and revive the act.

For a decade and a half the pair has consistently been called former bandmates. On Sunday, however, Liam Gallagher stoked fans’ excitement amid the reunion speculation by cryptically musing that he “never did like that word FORMER” on X.

The comeback rumors surfaced just days before the 30th anniversary of Oasis’ debut studio album “Definitely Maybe.”

The British rock band is also famous for its seminal sophomore album “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?” as well as hit songs such as “Wonderwall,” “Don’t Look Back in Anger,” “Stop Crying Your Heart Out” and “Champagne Supernova.”