The Purge: Election Year (2016)
An anti-Purge Presidential candidate & her chief security guard join forces on the streets with a store owner & his employee to survive the latest Purge.
An anti-Purge Presidential candidate & her chief security guard join forces on the streets with a store owner & his employee to survive the latest Purge.
Rated R. Our ratings: V -8; L -7; S/N -.2 Running time: 1 hour 25 min. They sit in ambush in the villages; in hiding-places they murder the innocent. Their eyes stealthily watch for the helpless; they lurk in secret like a lion in its covert; they lurk that they may seize the poor; they …
Rated R. Our ratings: V -8; L -7; S/N -.2 Running time: 1 hour 25 min. They sit in ambush in the villages; in hiding-places they murder the innocent. Their eyes stealthily watch for the helpless; they lurk in secret like a lion in its covert; they lurk that they may seize the poor; they …
Inside this Issue: Hell or High Water, Star Trek Beyond, The Secret Life of Pets, Now You See Me 2, Wiener-Dog, The Purge: Election Year, and more.
The July / August issue of Visual Parables features reviews of Star Trek: Into Darkness, Man of Steel, The Great Gatsby, The Angels’ Share, Before Midnight, Mud, Epic, Monsters University, Frances Ha, Renoir, After Earth, Disconnect, At Any Price, Love Is All You Need, World War Z, The Purge, The Heat, Lore, No Place on Earth, Midnight’s Children, Stories We Tell, White House Down, The Internship, and Briars in the Cottonpatch.
Set in the 1600s when Poruguese Catholics have been trading with and have converted a few Japanese, this second adaptation of James Clavell’s historical novel, created by Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks is so msemerizing that it demands binge watching. Thus far you can watch on Hulu the ten sessions already produced, with two more seasons promised. The …
To see a longer review, click onto the titles that are highlighted. Hell or High Water Rated R. Running time: 1 hour 42 min. Proverbs 6:30-31; Romans 6:23. This crime thriller is outstanding due to the excellent cast and its story grounded in the on-going financial crisis in which banks are foreclosing on property owners …
T o read a longer review, click onto the film title. The Free State of Jones Rated R. Running time: 2 hours 19 min. Psalm 10:12; Galatians 6:7. Based on a little known episode of the Civil War, this is the story of a Mississippi white farmer who deserted the Confederate Army because he was …
I am posting my latest set of Film Capsules, prepared for the leaders of Cincinnati Presbytery, because of the first film, THE ATTACK. Relegated to the art house circuit because it is an Arabic film with English subtitles, it is not attracting much attention–4 others were present when I caught it–but it should. Any film …
A small-town man sets forth from Oregon to walk to NYC to fight on behalf of his gay son against LGBTQ bullying.