There’s a beautiful new production of Shakespeare’s classic. THIS WEEK, click on the “Movie Reviews” link in the navigation bar, above, to read my review. Plus, new reviews of Church Girl, Inequality for All—and my latest Film Capsules, too!
Romeo and Juliet
Two teenagers from feuding familes fall in love in Renaisaance Verona. Aided by a sympathetic priest who sees their marriage as bringing reconciliation, the two are neverthess torn apart, their love ending in death, but still bringing reconciliation.
I’m In Love With a Church Girl
Miles has made a lot of money dealing drugs and producing musical acts, but when he falls in love with church-going Vanessa, he is torn between the two worlds–that of faith and that of crime..
Inequality for All
Former Labor Sec. Robert Reich speaks around the country about the income gap between the wealthy and the middle class and the necessity for maintaining a strong middle class if the nation’s economy is to be robust.
Film Capsules October 2013
You can find longer reviews on this website, and all appear in the November Visual Parables, with most of the reviews including a set of reflection/discussion questions. You are welcome to reprint any or all of these capsules in the newsletter of your church or organization—as long as your publication includes the line: (c) 2013 …
Escape Plan
This pairing of Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Scharzenegger centers on how they will break out of an escape proof CIA prison headed by a sadistic warden.
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2
Inventor Flint Lockwood and his friends go back to his island to combat the menace he thought he had destroyed in the first film, his Diatomic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator before it can wreak havoc again on the world.
The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete
Left alone in the impoverished Brooklyn projects when their dug-addicted mothers are taken away b the police, a 14 year-old African American boy unwillingly becomes the care-giver of an 8 year-old Korean American boy. Dodging the police and gang members, they must survive the hot summer by their wits and pluck.
The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
Of the 3 survival films now showing, including Gravity and Capt. Phillips, this little indie film about 2 Brooklyn boys is by far the best. Click the “Movie Reviews” link, above, to read more.
Don Jon
A young man addicted to porn discovers that even when he meets what he thinks is his ideal woman, he cannot break the habbit. Painful experience and the love of an older woman brings a measure of maturity, but is that enough?