Rated R. Our Ratings: V -0; L -5; S/N -6. Running time: 1 hour 39 min. Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing… And we urge you, beloved, to admonish the idlers, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with all of them. 1 Thessalonians 5:11, 14 …
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V -4; L -3 S/N -1. Running time: 2hours 13 min. Our hero dangles high above the streets of Dubai.© 2011 Paramount Pictures This is a film that shows nothing is impossible if you have vast funds for computer generated effects and a public willing to believe anything—implausible plot devices and …
Arthur Christmas
Rated PG. Our Ratings: V -1; L -2; S/N 01. Running time: 1 hour 37 min. Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. …
New Year’s Eve
Rated PG-13. Our Ratings: V -1; L -4; S/N -2. Running time: 1 hour 58 min. For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:a time to be born, and a time to die;a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 Hillary Swank as …
Young Adults
Rated R. Our Ratings: V -2; L -5; S/N -6. Running time: 1 hour 34 min. The one who begets a fool gets trouble; the parent of a fool has no joy. Proverbs 17:21 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; …
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Rated PG-13. Our Ratings: V -4; L -5; S/N -1. Running time: 2 hours 9 min.Even though a person sins and gets by with it hundreds of times throughout a long life, I’m still convinced that the good life is reserved for the person who fears God, who lives reverently in his presence, and that …
Melancholia
Rated R. Our Ratings: V -4; L -5; S/N -1. Running time: 1 hour 37 min. Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher,vanity of vanities! All is vanity. … …What do mortals get from all the toil and strain with which they toil under the sun? For all their days are full of pain, and their …
War Horse
Rated PG-13. Our Ratings: V -4; L -5 ; S/N -1. Running time: 2 hours 26 min. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. Luke 2:13-14 Albert and Joey form …
The Descendants
Matt and his daughters gaze at their fasmily’s land. © 2011 Fox Searchlight Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, if another member of the church sins against me, how often should I forgive? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “Not seven times, but, I tell you, seventy-seven times. Matthew 18:21 …
HUGO
Pic 1. Scorcese’s tribute to Buster Keaton as Hugo hides from his pursuer. Pic 2. Hugo starts out on the wrong foot with georges, the grumpy owner of the toy shop in the station. Give justice to the weak and the orphan; maintain the right of the lowly and the destitute. Rescue the weak …