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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 …
The people who made this early film about the KKK water down its attack, as we will see, with the script barely mentioning racism. It is distinguished mainly because it features three stars who seldom appeared in a film purportedly dealing seriously with social issues. Ginger Rogers, Doris Day, and Ronald Reagan were better known …
Ukrainian filmmaker Larisa Shepitko only made four films before her untimely death in 1979 at the age of 41 in an auto accident while working on what would have been her fifth. Yet had she made only this one, a war film with religious allegory at its heart, this would still ensure her place among …
I have just finished reading Joy-Ann Reid’s new book MEDGAR & MYRLIE: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America–and can highly recommend it. I had known of the martyred NAACP leader even before I joined the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project way back in 1964. The three films in which he is portrayed greatly enhanced my …
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.