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I can’t believe it’s been such a long time since my last entry. Aside from my usual writing for Visual Parables, LectionAid, and Lectionary Homiletics, I’ve been engrossed in finishing the book Blessed Are the Filmmakers, outlined below. It was inspired by reading Daniel Buttry’s inspiring collection of 60+ minibiographies of peacemakers, living and dead, …
Rated PG. Our ratings: V -2; L -4; S/N -5. Running time: 1 hour 43 min. A partial spoiler in the last paragraph of the review. You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbour as yourself: I am the Lord. Leviticus 19:18 You …
Rated PG-13. Our Ratings: V-4 ;L -1 ; S/N –1. Running time: 1 hour 41 min. Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” —this is the first commandment with a promise: “so that it may be well with you and you may live long on the …
Rated PG. Our ratings: V-3 ; L- 0; S/N-1 . Running time: 1 hour 41 min. For once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Live as children of light—for the fruit of the light is found in all that is good and right and true. Ephesians 5:8-9 Tangled There is …
Rated R. Our Rating: V-1 ; L-4 1; S/N-5. Length: 1 hour 47 min. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery; and making her stand before all of them… Jesus straightened up and said to her, ‘Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?’ She said, “No …
Rated R. Our ratings: V- 6; L-5 ; S/N-4. Running time: 2 hours 37 min. I will sing of loyalty and of justice; to you, O LORD, I will sing. I will study the way that is blameless. When shall I attain it? I will walk with integrity of heart within my house; I will …
Rated PG. Our ratings: V-1 ; L-1 ; S/N-1 If my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will take me up. Psalm 27:10 Then people will come from east and west, from north and south, and will eat in the kingdom of God. Luke 13:29 Because of Winn-Dixie Directed by Wayne Wang, Winn-Dixie is …
Rated R. Our ratings: V-5; L-5; S-5/N-1 O Give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: For his mercy endureth forever. O give thanks unto the God of gods: For his mercy endureth forever. O give thanks to the Lord of lords: For his mercy endureth forever. … Who remembereth in our lowly estate: …
Once again it is time to offer up VP’s Top Ten Films list. Perhaps “past” should preface “time,” as most critics have long since published their lists. However, as one dwelling in the hinterlands, that vast space between NYC and LA depicted in the famous NEW YORKER Magazine’s cartoon cover, I wanted to wait until …
Rated PG-13 Our content rating: V-1; L-2; S-4/N-0. I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. As a lily among brambles, so is my love among maidens. As an apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, …