Dough (2015)
When an old Jewish baker hires a Muslim teenager from Darfur as his apprentice, the boy accidentally spills cannabis into the dough, with amazing results.
Ten films that explore the sin of structural racism
Presbyterian pastor, film critic Edward McNulty recommends seeing or re-visiting these thoughtful films by Mike Ferguson | Presbyterian News Service The Rev. Dr. Edward McNulty has compiled a list of 10 thoughtful films that deal with the sin of structural racism. LOUISVILLE — The Rev. Dr. Edward McNulty, a Presbyterian pastor and film critic, has …
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Lenten Reflections for Film Lovers, Part 4
Our new week of Lenten reflections on faith and film focus on stories about fathers in movies and in scripture. Click on the title of this week’s collection, here.
The Cakemaker (2017)
In Berlin Israeli city planner Oren (Roy Miller) has become more than friends with Thomas (Tim Kalkhof), the talented baker at the small café where they had met. While eating the baker’s delicious Black Forest gâteau, Oren seduces the young German. During his monthly visit the pair bed down together. Although he has a wife …
Moonlight (2016)
We see 3 stages in Chiron’s story, a black struggling with his sexual identity–as a bullied 10-year-old; a still bullied 16-year-old; & a man choosing his future after reconciling with his recovering mother.
Film Capsules September 2016
Click onto a film title to see the long review. Most of the reviews with discussion questions are in the September issue of Visual Parables, available for sale at visualparables.net. (Films marked with a star will be in the October VP.) Southside With You Rated PG-13. Running time: 1 hour 24 min. Proverbs 31:8-9. Matthew …
September 2016 Journal
In this issue: Southside With You, Pete’s Dragon, Kubo & the 2 Strings, Ben Hur, Captain Fantastic, The Light Between the Oceans, Indignation, and more.
Boyz N the Hood (1991)
In this father-son film a promising black student is pulled between his gun-wielding friends & his strict father, the latter concerned about gun violence.
Boyz n The Hood (1991)
Two black brothers and their friend in the hood are in danger from drugs & violence, with the father of one of them trying to teach his son right from wrong.
Miss. Freedom Summer Project Part 13
Friday night we ate supper in what could only be described as a “dive.” We would have been scared to death to enter such a place in the North. People sitting around drinking & talking. Several dancing, many of them quite high. Everyone nodding or saying hello as we walked in. Roger & I had …