Don’t miss this Sci-Fi thriller about survivors of a Big Freeze struggling on super-train! Click the headline to read my entire review.
Mississippi Freedom Summer Project 1964: Part 2
The following excerpt from my journal describes a portion of our arrival in Shaw, MS, and first impressions–on Thursday, August 6, 1964. Our trip from Jackson to Shaw was uneventful. (Unlike the experience of a group of volunteers who were shot at on the same road two days before!) Warren warned us, “Remember, you will be in enemy …
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The Last King of Scotland (2006)
When a white doctor just out of med school agrees to work for Idi Amin in Uganda, he discovers not only the man’s brutality but also hard to break away.
Nixon (1995)
Nixon, a talented yet paranoia-filled man suffers defeat yet comes back to make a successful run for the Presidency, only to lose it over a petty scandal.
Film Capsules July 2014
To read the longer reviews on this site click onto a film title. Also, most of these long reviews a include set of reflection/discussion questions found exclusively in the July issue Visual Parables. Ida (Polish with English subtitles) Rated PG-13. John 10:10b; Psalm 27:10 This deeply spiritual little masterpiece by the English/Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski …
Maleficent (2014)
In this revisionist fairy tale: the evil witch that cursed the baby changes. As she watches over the child her hatred is dissolved by love & it is the king who wronged her who is the villain.
Mississippi Freedom Summer Project 1964: Part 1
Part 1: Introduction Recently the Presbyterian News Service sent out my article “BEYOND MISSISSIPPI BURNING: Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of the Mississippi Summer Freedom Project.” A recollection of my experiences as a minister volunteer during that hot August in 1964, while writing it I kept shortening, or eliminating entirely, some meaningful events and persons …
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The Rover (2014)
In this road trip film, set in post apocalyptic Australia, a rover picks up a wounded man as he pursues 3 bank robbers who stole his car, his prized possession.
The Signal (2014)
A trio of friends during a road trip through the desert find themselves in a strange clinic. They’re interrogated by a man in a bio-suit-is he a friend–or?
Tammy (2014)
After Tammy is fired from her fast food restaurant job she reluctantly embarks on a trip to Niagra Falls with her grandmother & learns life lessons enroute.