The actress in question is two-time Tony Award winner Cherry Jones. She has the small role of a TV news executive near the end of Tina Fey’s new film Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. The evening our conversation took place, we were in the Catskills “metropolis” (population, c. 70) of Bovina Center in the last part of …
Film Capsules April 2016
Eye in the Sky Rated R. Running time: 1 hour 42 min. Matthew 10:28-30. This is a fascinating exploration of the ethics of our nation’s engagement in drone warfare to fight terrorists. Helen Mirren plays a British-USA-Kenyan team that has been tracking down a Brit married to a Somali terrorist for six years. Thanks to …
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016)
More Greek than the Greeks, Gus & Maria argue how to fix a priest’s failure to sign their marriage license years ago, & their granddaughter worries her parents Ian & Toula that she might attend a far away college.
The Jungle Book (2016)
The latest adaptation of Kipling’s world-famous tale is an absolute joy for all ages. Click the image to read my entire review.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot 2016
In Afghanistan a female war correspondence learns about herself, love, and an alien world as she struggles to get her reports of a forgotten war aired.
Zootopia (2016)
In Zootopia where most animals live in harmony a small rabbit is given 2 days to fulfill her dream of becoming a policeman, despite what others think.
National Geographic Channel Offerings
See what you are missing if you don’t subscribe to the journal form of Visual Parables. besides the discussion questions for the film reviews there are other features, such as in the April issue short reviews of two National Geographic Channel films. “The Story of God,” narrated by Morgan Freeman, who seems to be going for a …
RAOUL WALLENBERG (1985)
I have neglected this blog for far too long due to an overcrowded schedule, but I promise to do better from now on. I am prompted to update the blog thanks to Suzy Farbman’s latest GodSigns posting on a new PBS documentary film on the Swedish diplomat who saved so many Jews from death during …
Eye in the Sky (2015)
A team of British, American, & Kenyan soldiers & politicians debate whether to launch a missile strike against terrorist that might kill also a nearby girl.
Knight of Cups (2015)
In this stream of consciousness film a screenwriter is like a lost knight who has forgotten his mission, and so he recalls the past as he seeks recovery.