Come From Away (2017)
Filmed version of play describing the generous welcome the villagers of Gander Newfoundland gave to stranded passengers by 9/11.
Charlotte Forten’s Mission: Experiment in Freedom (1985)
This TV film focuses on the heroic 2 years that Black Abolitionist Charlotte Forten spent teaching ex-slaves at Port Royal during the Civil War.
Dickinson
Emily Dickinson emerges as a young woman & poet who loves best friend Sue & struggles against her mother who wants her to marry & her father who is against her poems being published.
Lenten Reflections for Film Lovers: Part 5
Our new week of Lenten reflections on faith and film focus on stories about mothers. Click on the title of this week’s collection to read all seven reflections.
Lenten Reflections for Film Lovers, Part 4
Our new week of Lenten reflections on faith and film focus on stories about fathers in movies and in scripture. Click on the title of this week’s collection, here.
IO (2019)
Sam, daughter of a famous scientist, has stayed behind when almost everyone else fled to Io because of pollution, when she is visited by Micah who wants her & her father to leave.
The Hate U Give (2018)
Every American should see this movie. Click the title to read my entire review.
A Ghost Story (2017)
In this film exploring grief and love a man dies in a car crash, but his ghost stays behind to observe his wife & future tenants & even sees a past tragedy.
July 2017 Journal
The July 2017 issue of Visual Parables features reviews of A Quiet Passion, The Beguiled, Megan Leavey, Wonder Woman, Cars 3, The Hero, The Lovers, Dean, Paris Can Wait, and Churchill.
Dean (2016)
A father & son deal with their grief over the loss of their wife/mother, the son fleeing NYC to LA for a while, & the father seeking to sell their house against the son’s wishes.