Gjør deg klar for nervepirrende spenning når Mark Wahlberg fyller skjermen i sin mest overbevisende rolle så langt i filmen "Snikskytter". Den velansette tidligere skarpskytteren og US-marine-helten Bob Lee Swagger lar seg overtale til et siste oppdrag for å stanse et attentatforsøk mot presidenten. Men så skjer det utenkelige: Han blir lurt og ender selv opp som mistenkt for drapsforsøket Fast bestemt på å bevise sin uskyld må den tøffe helten flykte fra både politi og spesialenheter samt den mystiske organisasjonen som ønsker livet av ham. Antoine Fuqua, regissøren bak "Training Day", gir oss en gripende film med Danny Glover og Michael Pena i noen av birollene. Kritiker Joel Siegel i det amerikanske TV-programmet Good Morning America kaller filmen for en "thriller ... fyIt med spenning så det holder":
After the end of Apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption.
King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another pious cleric loyal to Rome and the Church, he will appoint his old drinking and wenching buddy, Thomas Becket, technically a deacon of the church, to the post. Unfortunately, Becket takes the job seriously and provides abler opposition to Henry.
A demon is summoned to take the soul of a young boy who has the potential to become a saint. By doing this he will open a doorway to hell and destroy the world.
The reign of Edward II, King of England, is troubled from the start when he brings his male lover, hated by the nobles, out of exile.
A country priest receives his bishop with the mission of converting a nudist camp.
On a blustery January day bishops arrive for the opening of the new Knutsford Test School.