Land of Plenty (2004)
Given recent headlines and renewed global conflict, I urge you to reach back and see Michelle Williams in Wim Wenders’ moving film. Click the title to read my entire review.
Land Ho (2014)
Two retirees, one outgoing & the other reticent, go on a road trip to Iceland for a last fling. There they party & see the sites of the city & countryside, ending their road trip refreshed & ready to face whatever happens.
Sweet Land (2005)
In post WW 1 Minnesota a mail order bride & her intended face difficulties when, learning she is from Germany & not Norway, the pastor & church reject her.
The Last King of Scotland (2006)
When a white doctor just out of med school agrees to work for Idi Amin in Uganda, he discovers not only the man’s brutality but also hard to break away.
Shadowlands (1993)
Late in life famed author/theologian C.S. Lewis marries American author Jay Davidson, only to lose her a few years later to cancer. Once writing about pain from an academic viewpoint, he now understands it from the point of view of the broken-hearted living in shadowlands.
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V -3; L -1; S/N -2. Running time: 1 hour 34 min. Very loosely based on a Jules Verne work, this over the top adventure yarn is about the most improbable tale I’ve had the misfortune to see this year (even more so than Safe House.). Likeable Dwayne Johnson is stuck …
Promised Land (2012)
Rated R. Our ratings: V -5; L -9; S/N -2. Running time: 1 hour 37 min. The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, the world, and those who live in it; for he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the rivers. Psalm 24:1-2 What does it profit …
Shutter Island (2010)
Rated R. Our ratings: V-4 ; L-5 ; S/N- 2. Running time: 2 hours 18 min. My heart is in anguish within me, the terrors of death have fallen upon me. Fear and trembling come upon me, and horror overwhelms me. And I say, ‘O that I had wings like a dove! I would fly …
City Island (2010)
Rated PG-13. Our Ratings: V-1; L-5; S/N-4. Length: 1 hour You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart. Psalm 51:6 Alls well that ends well for the troubled Rizzo family. 2010 Anchor Bay Films Writer and director Raymond de Felitta has given us an interesting Walter Mitty-like character …
Adventureland (2009)
Rated R. Our Rating: V-1 ; L-4 1; S/N-5. Length: 1 hour 47 min. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery; and making her stand before all of them… Jesus straightened up and said to her, ‘Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?’ She said, “No …