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Click onto the film titles (with two exceptions) to see the more detailed review. Inside Out Rated PG. Romans 7:15-20. 11 year-old Riley misses her Minnesota friends and haunts when her parents make a career-based move to San Francisco. The filmmakers visualize her emotional turmoil by taking us inside her mind and giving five emotions …
In Japan Anna, sent to relatives on the coast because of her asthma, is so shy that she feels like an outsider. She befriends Marnie who might not be real, but the change that Marnie brings to her is very real.
I’m urging you to see this film, which follows the same boy across 12 years from childhood to college. Click on the film title to read my entire review.
Rated PG. Our ratings: V-3, L-0, S/N-1. Running time: hour, min. 1 hour 38 min. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, the lion shall eat straw like the ox; but the serpent—its food shall be dust! They shall not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain, Isaiah 65:25 Blessed are the peacemakers, …
Rated R. Our ratings: V-7 ; L- 2; S/N-1 . Running time: 1 hour 50 min. The Omen When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them. Another angel with …
Rated R. Our ratings: V-6; L-5 ; S/N-4 . Running time: 1 hour 49 min. LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting thou art God. Thou turnest man back to the dust, …
The family of Rudolh Höss, Commandant of Auschwitz, ignore the horrific sounds of torture & death transpiring on the other side of the wall, nor are we ever shown the horrors of the other side.
Autobiographical story about a Black boy largely raised by the owner of his rooming house & its residents, based on a play.
True story of a brave Catholic social worker who poses as a nurse in order to smuggle children out of the Warsaw Ghetto.
The story behind the 1963 March on Washington is well-told, including the frank depiction of the genius leading its planning, Bayard Rustin.