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Rated PG. Our ratings: V- 3 L- 1; S/N-1. Running time: 1 hour 32 min. The latest of several movie versions of Jules Verne’s 1864 novel, director Eric Brevig’s film is no more advanced in its science than was Verne. And Brendan Fraser’s acting is at about the same level. He plays Professor Trevor Anderson, …
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Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V-0 ; L-1 ; S/N-3. Running time: 1 hour 35 min. In old age, your body no longer serves you so well. Muscles slacken, grip weakens, joints stiffen. The shades are pulled down on the world. You can’t come and go at will. Things grind to a halt. .. Life, lovely …
Rated PG Our Rating: V- 1; L-1 ; S/N- 2. Length: 2 hours 2 min. But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us. Romans 5:8 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist …
Rated R. Our Ratings: V-4 ;L -1 ; S/N –1. Running time: 1 hour 36 min. I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and your descend- ants may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying …
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V- 4; L-0 ; S/N-3. Running time: 1 hour 49 min. And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its …
Reviewed by Eric Larsen Documentary Rated PG. Running time: 1 hour 34 min. Are our favorite foods doing us harm? 2008 Magnolia Pictures Then God said, “Let the earth put forth vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees of every kind on earth that bear fruit with the seed in it.” And it was so. …
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V- 3; L- 2; S/N-1. Running time: c. 2 hours Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment. Proverbs 12:19 The Duluth Bulldogs Team. 2008 Universal Pictures Although George Clooney’s romantic comedy (and we can better say “Clooney’s” because he directs as well as stars) is great …
Rated PG-13 for . Our ratings: V-1; L-2 ; S/N-1 . Running time:1 hour, 59 minutes Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise. Without having any chief or officer or ruler, It prepares its food in summer, and gathers its sustenance in harvest. How long will you lie there, O …
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V- 2; L- 2; S/N-4. Running time: 1 hour 51 min. A wise child makes a glad father, but a foolish child is a mother’s grief. Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death. Proverbs 10:1-2 Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for you reap …
Rated R. Our ratings: V- 0; L-2 ; S/N-5. Running Time: 1 hour 40 min. Remember the days of old, consider the years long past; ask your father, and he will inform you; your elders, and they will tell you. Deuteronomy 32:7 The film begins with Simon sharing his paper with his teacher Sabine and …