Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love (2019)
A wonderful documentary about songwriter Leonard Cohen’s \relationship with his muse Marianne Ihlen. Click the movie title to read my review.
Us (2019)
A well off black family, attacked by their doppelgängers, flee but find the rest of the country also is under siege.
Lenten Reflections for Film Lovers, Part 4
Our new week of Lenten reflections on faith and film focus on stories about fathers in movies and in scripture. Click on the title of this week’s collection, here.
Glass (2019)
All 3 men with super powers are brought together at a facility where a psychiatrist works to convince them they do not have super powers.
Life Is Beautiful (1997)
After wooing Dora & siring a son with her, Guido goes all out to protect the little boy from reality when all are sent to a Nazi camp.
Phantom Thread (2017)
An arrogant London dressmaker used to his own way, who lives with his sister, takes on a new model and lover who proves to be his match.
Phantom Thread (2017)
In London a self-centered determined bachelor dressmaker meets a woman as strong-willed as he.
Justice League (2017)
In this superhero epic Batman rounds up Wonder Woman, The Flash, Cyborg, and Aquaman to form The Justice League to defend Earth against evil Steppenwolf.
August 2017 Journal
The August 2017 issue of Visual Parables features reviews of Dunkirk, War for the Planet of the Apes, Spider-Man: Homecoming, The Exception, Maudie, Beatriz at Dinner, A Ghost Story, Baby Driver, Alien: Covenant, The Big Sick, Radio Dreams, Band Aid, Citizen Jane: Battle for the City, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Despicable Me 3 (2017)
When Dru is fired as a crime fighter because he did not capture super villain Balthazar Bratt, he’s tempted by his Minions & a newly discovered twin brother to return to evil ways, but love for Lucy & the girls prevent this.