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Reviewed by Eric Larsen Rated R V – 7/8 L – 2 S/N – 2 Who is my neighbor? 2009 Warner Brothers Luke 10:29 (from 10:25-37) A flashback to events in 2003 opens Terminator Salvation. We witness a convicted killer offered an option as he awaits his execution. This event affects everything that follows in …
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V-1 ; L-3 ; S/N-5. Running time: 1 hour 32 min. Meoldy and Boris, a very mis-matched pair! 2009 Sony Pictures Classics I hated all my toil in which I had toiled under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to those who come after me —and who knows whether …
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V-5 ; L- 40; S/N-4. Running time: 2 hours 42 min. Listen, you that are deaf; and you that are blind, look up and see! Isaiah 42:18 The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows to bring down the poor and needy, to kill those who walk uprightly; Psalm 37:14 …
Rated PG. Our ratings: V-3; L-; S/N Running time: 2 hours 8 min. Then his mother and his brothers came; and standing outside, they sent to him and called him. 32A crowd was sitting around him; and they said to him, ‘Your mother and your brothers and sisters* are outside, asking for you.’ 33And he …
Rated R. Our ratings: V- 7; L-5 ; S/N -6 Running time: 1 hour 55 min. “Do not human beings have a hard service on earth, and are not their days like the days of a laborer? Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like laborers who look for their wages, so I …
Rated PG. . Our ratings: V-3 ; L-1 ; S/N-0 . Running time: 1 hour 32 min. And the Lord God commanded the man, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you …
Rated PG. Our Rating: V-2 ; L- 1; S/N-2 . Length: 2 hours 9 min. Ah, you who make iniquitous decrees, who write oppressive statutes, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right… Isaiah 10:1-2a I charged your judges at that time: “Give the members …
Rated R. Our ratings: V- 4; L-1; S/N -.2. Running time: 1 hour 54 min. The human mind plans the way, but the Lord directs the steps. Proverbs 16:9 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Matthew 9:36 Unlike Jesus, George …
Rated R. Our ratings: V- 5; L- 6; S/N-2. Running time: 1 hour 53 min. My days are past, my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart. They make night into day; ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’ If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my …
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one wholoves another has fulfilled the law. Romans 13:8 Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, like those at Pixar, creates his films for adults as well as for children. His current beautifully animated tale, based on Hans Christian Anderson’s story “The Little Mermaid,” is made by the old fashioned way, by …