The best-selling novel comes to the big screen and I’m urging you to go see it. Click the movie title here to read my entire review.
The Vernon Johns Story (1994)
Before MLK was pastor at the Dexter Ave. Baptist Ch. there was an even more fiery preacher who prepared the way for him, Vernon Johns, a champion of justice.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)
An 11 year-old orphan raised by cruel relatives discovers at wizard’s school that he is the son of famous parents & must face the being that killed them.
Jakob the Liar (1999)
Jakob, a mild-mannered Jew in a Polish ghetto hides a girl escaped from a train & makes up stories about Allied victories, bringing hope to fellow prisoners.
Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964 (Part 6)
The events chronicled below began on Sunday, Aug. 8, 2014 Sunday morning we arose, breakfasted at Joe’s grocery store (More on this later.) & went to church. The local Methodists and Presbyterians were on vacation, so we went to the white Baptist service. We arrived midway in the service & were seated amidst a lot …
Magic in the Moonlight (2014)
Set in Provence, France, Woody Allen’s film explores the possibility of the supernatural when a stage magician is asked to prove a lovely medium is a fake.
Land Ho (2014)
Two retirees, one outgoing & the other reticent, go on a road trip to Iceland for a last fling. There they party & see the sites of the city & countryside, ending their road trip refreshed & ready to face whatever happens.
Film Capsules August 2014
Begin Again Rated R. Psalm 69: 1-3. A film set in the music record world, this is also a good father-daughter story. It is made by the people who gave us the delightful Once, also about musicians and the creative process. Shot on location around Manhattan, it rivals the films of Woody Allen in showing …
Boyhood (2014)
I’m urging you to see this film, which follows the same boy across 12 years from childhood to college. Click on the film title to read my entire review.
Mississippi Freedom Summer Project 1964 (Part 5)
On Saturday morning I put up the door for the Crafts Closet. One of the sons of Mr. Hawkins was eager to help. In the afternoon Roger and I went out calling on people to gather information on intimidation. News had already come in about two cross burnings during the previous night. The first house …
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