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Readers who send out newsletters or produce church bulletins are welcome to reprint any or all of these mini-reviews, the one stipulation being that at the end they include © 2914 Edward McNulty, Visual Parables. Click onto a title to read a much longer review. Selma Rated PG-13. Amos 5:21-24. None of the other fine …
Artist Margaret Keane’s struggle to gain credit claimed by her husband for creating the popular painting s of children with the big eyes makes for a powerful film.
Rated R. Our ratings: V -8; L -7; S/N -2. Running time: 1 hour 28 min. You shall not suffer a witch to live. Exodus 22:18 KJV Break the arm of the wicked and evildoers; seek out their wickedness until you find none. Psalm 10.15 Sister and brother like to dress in leather and use …
Rated R. Our ratings: V-6 ; L-3 ; S/N .1 Running time: 1 hour 40 min. If my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will take me up. Psalm 27.10 Annabel slowly develops her maternal instincts. 2012 Universal Pictures Actress Jessica Chastain is on a roll this year, this time donning a dark wig …
Rated PG. Our ratings: V-3 ; L- ; S/N Running time: 1 hour 41 min. But wild animals will lie down there, and its houses will be full of howling creatures; there ostriches will live, and there goat-demons will dance. Hyenas will cry in its towers, and jackals in the pleasant palaces Isaiah 13:21-22a At …
Ex-con Percy with a tragic past finds a job at a smalltown restaurant where she has life-changing influences upon the owner & its cook.
A teenage girl is rescued from human traffickers but is so traumatized that even faith might not be enough to get her to testify aginst the gang leader at a trial.
A writer whose 2nd novel stinks retreats with a friend to a seaside cabin to revise it where they become involved with a girl already there.
A switch on the usual trapped victims in a horror movie–the entire group is Black
The classic story is re-imagined as unfolding in Fascist Italy where the wooden puppet learns slowly what it is to be a human & a father to accept a son as he is.