Songs add to the feelings & actions of the characters in Alice Walker’s musical version of the classic tale of sisterhood.
Maestro (2023)
The film is more about Leonard Bernstein’s music & sexuality & his relationship to wife Felicia Montealegre than a biographical film.
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I was humbled and blessed by publisher David Crumm’s tribute to me this past week. He has such a distinguished career in journalism that such praise coming from him is especially appreciated. Since its founding in 1990 Visual Parables never has grown to become a major journal, but it has drawn a small group of …
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (2009)
True story of a brave Catholic social worker who poses as a nurse in order to smuggle children out of the Warsaw Ghetto.
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
In this prequel a young Pres. Snow mentors Lucy Grey, the composer of “The Hanging Tree” who is to fight in the 10th Hunger Game.
Love Actually (2003)
Written and directed by Richard Curtis, who also wrote Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones’s Diary, Love Actually has much to recommend it, despite a couple of storylines of questionable taste. The film is book-ended by scenes of arrivals and departures at London’s Heathrow Airport, as we hear a narrator state …
Pieces of April (2003)
April wants to reconcile with her family but everything goes wrong while preparing a Thanksgiving dinner for them.
ELF (2003)
A human raised at the North Pole by an elf learns he is a man, & so sets off for NYC to find his father. Runs into a series of surprises.
Wish (2023)
A strong-willed girl opposing a selfish king who keeps captive the wishess of his people finds help from a star & friends to oppose him.
Shift (2023)
In a film based on Job, Kevin is shifted by Satan to another universe and strives to return to his wife Molly, but must make a hard choice.