One Nation, One King (2018)
The French revolution told more from the POV of the Parisian underclass & members of the National Assembly who debate the King’s fate.
A Hidden Life (2019)
The story of how Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter refused to salute Hitler or serve in the army, resulting in his martyrdom.
Film Capsules April 2016
Eye in the Sky Rated R. Running time: 1 hour 42 min. Matthew 10:28-30. This is a fascinating exploration of the ethics of our nation’s engagement in drone warfare to fight terrorists. Helen Mirren plays a British-USA-Kenyan team that has been tracking down a Brit married to a Somali terrorist for six years. Thanks to …
Knight of Cups (2015)
In this stream of consciousness film a screenwriter is like a lost knight who has forgotten his mission, and so he recalls the past as he seeks recovery.
VP’s Top Ten Films for 2013
How does your movie going stack up? Faith and film writer Edward McNulty lists and reviews his Top 10 movies of 2013. Click on the title to see the entire list.
Film Capsules September 2013
Each month, I post a series of very short film reviews—focusing mainly on films that will be fully reviewed in Visual Parables Journal. This capsule-sized feature was started several years ago as a service for clergy, newsletter editors and teachers to alert them to films worth seeing (or, in some cases, as a warning of …
Writer Fr. Andrew Greeley’s Death Overshadowed by That of Jean Stapelton
News of the death of the noted Catholic priest/writer Fr. Andrew Greeley was almost lost amid all the tributes given to the wonderful actress who depicted Edith Bunker. TIME Magazine even printed its tribute to him below that of Ms. Stapleton’s, and yet I was so absorbed by her story that I totally ignored Fr. …
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Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Frodo & 3 Hobbit friends join with Gandolf & others to return an evil ring to a distant mountain & destroy it before the villain can seize it.
Wreck-it Ralph (2012)
PG-13. Our ratings: V -2; L -4; S/N -3. Running time: 1 hour 41 min. Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up the other; but woe to one who is alone and falls and does not haveanother to help. Again, …
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
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 …