The Iron Giant (1999)
During the Cold War Hogarth befriends a giant robot that has fallen to earth & has to hide him from a government agent who thinks it is a threat to be destroyed.
The Great Beauty (2013)
This surprising film truly did earn its Oscar and, now, the Criterion Collection is releasing it. Click the headline to read my entire review.
Reflections on Oscar Nominations for 2013
Well, the list of Oscar nominations has been released, and now the Oscar buzz really begins. As usual, I was happy and disappointed by the choices. Happy that so many good films are being recognized. Disappointed that such a good one as Lee Daniels’ The Butler didn’t make the cut for “Best Picture,” or that …
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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 …
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 …
Zodiac (2007)
Rated R. Our ratings: V- 5; L-5 ; S/N-4 . Running time: 2 hours 36 min. Why, O Lord, do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? In arrogance the wicked persecute the poor— let them be caught in the schemes they have devised. For the wicked boast of …
Lassie (2005)
Rated PG. Our ratings: V-2; L-1; S/N-0 . Running time: 1 hour 39 min. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Hebrews 13:2 Lassie Two of the most memorable childhood films of my generation were Bambi and Lassie, Come Home, each of which in its own way …
Bambi (1942)
Not rated. V-4; L -0; S/N –2. Running time: 1 hour For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time …
In the Land of Saints and Sinners (2023)
Liam Neeson’s latest foray into violence-laden action films is a little more nuanced than his usual fare. This time he is Finbar Murphy, a widower living in a cottage in the small coastal town of Glencolmcille, Donegal during the Troubles of the mid-70s. He is a good neighbor to the older Rita (Niamh Cusack) across the …