Birth (2004)

Rated R. Our ratings: V-2 ; L-3 ; S-4/N-2 Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there, doing business and making money.’ Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist …

Beyond the Sea (2004)

Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V-1; L-4 ; S/N-4 Speak out for those who cannot speak, for the rights of all the destitute. Speak out, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy. Proverbs 31:8-9 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not …

Alexander (2004)

Rated R. Our ratings: V-8 ; L-2 ; S-8/N-7 So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem; also my wisdom remained with me. Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and …

Two Brothers (2004)

Rated PG Our content rating: V-3; L-1; S/N-1. Two Brothers Although this film stars Guy Pearce as hunter and tomb robber Aiden McRory, the real stars of Jean-Jaques Annaud’s environmentally concerned story are two tiger cubs. As with his wonderful 1989 The Bear (reviewed in the Dec. 1990 VP), the director use live animals, enhanced …

Ushpizin (2004)

Rated PG-13 . Our ratings: V-1 ; L-1 ; S/N- 1. Running Time: 1 hour 31 min. “On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall keep the feast of the LORD seven days; on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and …

The Libertine (2004)

Rated R. Our ratings: V-4 ; L-5 ; S/N-6 For the wicked boast of the desires of their heart, those greedy for gain curse and renounce the Lord. In the pride of their countenance the wicked say, ‘God will not seek it out’; all their thoughts are, ‘There is no God.’ Psalm 10:3-4 The Libertine …