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A powerfulm by a French-Lebanese filmmaker about an Arab-Israeli doctor shocked to discover that his wife is the suicide bomber who killed 17 people, many of them children, in a Tel Aviv café. Most of the film consists of his physical and spiritual journey to try to find out why such a loving person as his wife committed such a terrible deed.
(Arabic with English subtitles) Rated R. Our ratings: V -5 ; L-1 ; S/N-1 . Running time: 1 hour 42 min. Secular Arabs Shamin and Amin seemed like a happy couple accepted b Israeli society. (c) 2012 Cohen Media Goup The heart is hopelessly dark and deceitful, a puzzle that no one can …
I can’t believe it’s been such a long time since my last entry. Aside from my usual writing for Visual Parables, LectionAid, and Lectionary Homiletics, I’ve been engrossed in finishing the book Blessed Are the Filmmakers, outlined below. It was inspired by reading Daniel Buttry’s inspiring collection of 60+ minibiographies of peacemakers, living and dead, …
Rated R. Our ratings: V -7; L -7; S/N -2. Running time: 2 hour 37 min Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands at a distance; for truth stumbles in the public square, and uprightness cannot enter. Isaiah 59:14 He said, ‘In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had …
Rated PG-13. Our Ratings: V-4 ;L -1 ; S/N –1. Running time: 1 hour 48 min. Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of anger will fail. Proverbs 22:8 Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for you reap whatever you sow. Galatians 6:7 Cataleya is like Rambo, a one-person army. ©2011 …
Rated R. Our Ratings: V-4 ;L -1 ; S/N –1. Running time: 2 hours 10 min. The wicked go astray from the womb; they err from their birth, speaking lies. They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear, so that it does not hear the voice …
Rated R Our ratings: V-5 ; L- 3; S/N-2 . Running time: 1 hour 38 min. Do not repay anyone evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all. 18 If it is possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, …
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V- 3; L- 1; S/N-1 . Running time: 2 hours 19 min. But the serpent said to the woman, ‘You will not die; for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.’ So when the woman …
Rated R. Our ratings: V- 7; L- 6; S/N-1 . Running time: 1 hour 50 min. They sit in ambush in the villages; in hiding-places they murder the innocent. Their eyes stealthily watch for the helpless; they lurk in secret like a lion in its covert; they lurk that they may seize the poor; they …
Rated NR (Equivalent to PG). Our ratings: V-1 ; L-1 ; S/N-0. Running time: 1 hour 57 min. Our star rating (1-5): 5 When they bring you to trial and hand you over, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say; but say whatever is given you at that time, for it is …