Do the Right Thing (1989)
Spike Lee’s classic Do the Right Thing was released 30 years ago but seems as relevant today. Click the movie title to read my entire review.
Spider Man: Far From Home (2019)
Peter Parker is torn between Nick Fury calling him to fight & his desire to take part in hisclass trip to Europe when Mysterio offers to take his place.
Lenten Reflections for Film Lovers: Part 7
LENTON REFLECTIONS for HOLY WEEK: Our final week of Lenten reflections on faith and film is ready now. Click on the title of this week’s collection to read all seven reflections.
Wind River (2017)
On an Indian reservation a rookie FBI female agent asks the local game tracker to help her discover who raped & murdered a teenage girl whose barefoot body he had found frozen in the snow.
Dunkirk (2017)
While over 400 K British & Allied troops are pounded on Dunkirk’s beach by Nazis, a flotilla of boats, protected by British planes, rush to evacuate them.
War for Planets of the Apes (2017)
Exciting and thought-provoking! (5 out of 5 stars) Click on the image to read my entire review.
Going in Style (2017)
Three life-long friends plan & carry out a bank robbery when the bank is responsible for one losing his house & all of them their pensions.
The Shack (2017)
A grieving father is lured back to the mountain shack where his daughter was killed, surprised that the Trinitarian God is there to bring him back to faith & life.
Finding Spiritual Values in Oscar’s “Best Pictures”
Courtesy of the Presbyterian News Service Each year the Academy for Motion Pictures and Sciences nominates five to ten films for the “Best Picture” category. I wish that it were a full ten this year, with the addition of Martin Scorcese’s haunting Silence rounding out the number. This well-filmed story, based on the terrible persecution …
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Film Capsules September 2016
Click onto a film title to see the long review. Most of the reviews with discussion questions are in the September issue of Visual Parables, available for sale at visualparables.net. (Films marked with a star will be in the October VP.) Southside With You Rated PG-13. Running time: 1 hour 24 min. Proverbs 31:8-9. Matthew …