This controversial film claims to tell “the true story” of what happened the night of Sept. 11 2012 when in Libya terrorists attacked US compounds, killing the US Ambassador.
Sin Nombre (2009)
I wish every American would see this film about Honduran refugees. Click the image to read my entire review.
Film Capsules January 2016
To read the full reviews click onto a film title. Feel free to use any or all in a newsletter, the only requirement being that the source be acknowledged as (c) Ed McNulty, Visual Parables. Concussion PG-13. Running time: 2 hours 4 min. Proverbs 4:9-13. Proverbs 31:8-9; Isaiah 29:15 Nigerian-American Dr. Bennet Omalo discovers through …
Beasts of No Nation (2015)
The story of an African Christian boy soldier forced to kill & steal by a war lord puts a human face on news stories of civil war carnage plaguing Africans.
Creed (2015)
This 7th of the Rocky series shows Rocky passing the mantle on to a new generation as he also finds support in a different battle, this time against death.
The Liberator (2013)
Simon Bolivar’s story, called The Liberator because he led the revolution against Spain in South America, is told from days as an uninvolved planter & slave owner to those of a leader believing in equality & freedom.
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Carol (2015)
Carol wants to live with store clerk Therese, but it is the 1950s, & both her husband, who threatens to take away their daughter, & society oppose it.
The Big Short (2015)
The inside story of how three groups of Wall Street predators, seeing the bubble of the housing industry, triggered the 2008 recession by their schemes.
In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
Herman Melville persuades an old guilt-ridden seaman to tell him of the ordeal 30 years earlier of hunting the great whale that attacked & sank his ship.