20th Century Women (2016)
A divorced mother, wanting her 14-year-old son to be a good man, asks for help from the young woman boarding in her house & a girl 2 years older than he who is in a Platonic relationship with him.
A divorced mother, wanting her 14-year-old son to be a good man, asks for help from the young woman boarding in her house & a girl 2 years older than he who is in a Platonic relationship with him.
An illiterate but very bright Ugandan girl is blessed with a protective mother & a minister who teaches her how to play chess, enabling her to escape poverty.
In this Issue: Pelé: Birth of a Legend, The Meddler, The Lobster, The Man Who Knew Infinity, Money Monster, A Bigger Splash, Love and Friendship, Angry Birds, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Miles Ahead, The Congressman, Everybody Wants Some, Sing Street, and more.
Inside this Visual Parables Journal Issue: Feature on Mother’s Day Films; Reviews of Railway Man, Joe, Captain America: T. Winter Soldier, Rio 2, Draft Day, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Under the Skin, Transcendence, Lunchbox, Le Week-end, Only Lovers Left, and Brick Mansions.
Sorry, May was such a busy month that I completely forgot about Film Capsules! Some further down the list have left the art house theaters they were released in, but should soon be available on disk or streaming video. The titles are embedded with hyperlinks that will take you to the full review at visualparables.org. …
A nun risks upsetting her colleagues, her family, & parents of two dead lovers by becoming the spiritual counselor to the vain man who raped & killed them.
To read the longer reviews on this site click onto a film title. Also, most of these long reviews a include set of reflection/discussion questions found exclusively in the July issue Visual Parables. Ida (Polish with English subtitles) Rated PG-13. John 10:10b; Psalm 27:10 This deeply spiritual little masterpiece by the English/Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski …
After Tammy is fired from her fast food restaurant job she reluctantly embarks on a trip to Niagra Falls with her grandmother & learns life lessons enroute.
Black boxer, convicted of murder by a racist cop using false testimony, writes a book but is unable to prove innocence until a teenaged boy pushes his case.
I had an interesting reaction yesterday to my sermon “As a Mother…” that I preached as a guest pastor at Bond Hill Presb. Church. I began by crediting Susan Sarandon with inspiring it, which as I could tell by smiles and people leaning forward, caught the congregation’s attention. I explained about my writing the Mother’s …