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Rated R. Running time: 1 hour 57 min. Our advisories: Violence 5; Language 1; Sex/Nudity 1. Star rating (1-5): 1 In the beginning when God createdthe heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep… Genesis 1:1-2 I had hoped to skip what I thought would be …
In this Sc-Fi film a boy is sent to a ilitary school to see if he is “the chosen one” to lead earth’s war against the alien race that had been beaten back frotaking over the Earth 50 years earlier.
In Argentina a dutiful wife & teacher, goaded by her students, searches for the origin of the little girl her husband brought home, telling her to ask no questions.
During the Napoleonic Wars, this is adventure on the high seas with Capt. Aubrey and his good friend, ship’s surgeon Stephen Maturin pursue a French ship.
The film, based on the memoir of Solomon Northrop, is about his being kidnapped and set to hard labor as a slave on Louisiana plantations before winning his freedom after 12 years
Grace, a compassionate caregiver at a facility for troubled youth bonds with a newcomer who has suffered from an abusive father, just as she had. As a wounded healer Grace also needs help so she can move on and open herself up to the man she loves.
The story of Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Computers.
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 …
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V-5; L-5 ; S/N-2 . Running time: 2 hours 12 min. The Kennedys meet the black staff for the first time. (c) 2013 Weinstein Pictures I say to God, my rock, ‘Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk about mournfully because the enemy oppresses me?’ Psalm 42.9 …
(“Jagten” in Danish & English) Rated R. Running time: 1 hour 33 min. Our ratings: V-5 ; L-5 ; S-5/N-1 . Our star rating(1-5): 5 My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction, and my neighbors stand far off. Psalm 38.11 He was despised and rejected by others; a man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity; …