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Rated R. Our Ratings: V-2; L -5; S-8/N -1. Running time: 1 hour 32 min. Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. James 3:1 Neither of these bitter rivals fit the mold of selfless educator devoted to her …
Rated PG-13. Our Ratings: V-5; L -1; S/N –0. Running time: 1 hour 54 min. Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life and honor. Proverbs 21:21 Marcus and Esca leave the security of the Roman fort on a quest for the lost eagle standard. 2011 Focus Features I presume that Rosemary Sutcliff’s 1954 historical …
Rated PG-13. Our Ratings: V-4 ;L -1 ; S/N –1. Running time: 1 hour 31 min. A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones. Proverbs 17:22 Meredith, Walt, and Beaver 2011 Summit Entertainment Jodie Foster’s newest turn at directing might remind you of Lars and the Real Girl …
Rated G. Our Ratings: V-3; L-1; S/N-1. Length: 1 hour 48 min. A friend loves at all times, and kinsfolk are born to share adversity. Proverbs 17:7 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, …
The arrest, trial, flogging and crucifixion is shown in painfully bloody detail. Brief flashbacks to Christ’s earlier life set the context.
Phil, resenting his bother George getting married, vows to drive her & her effeminate son off their Montana ranch by driving her mad.
An eventful day in 1927 racist Chicago where Blues singer Ma Rainey records a song and faces off against her rebellious horn player & White producers.
Despite his lack of athletic ability Eddie Edwards decides to join the British skiing team at the 1988 Olympics in Calgary, with surprising results.
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Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V- 2; L- 1; S/N-3 . Running time: 2 hours 16 min Why do the wicked renounce God, and say in their hearts, ‘You will not call us to account’? But you do see! Indeed you note trouble and grief, that you may take it into your hands; the helpless commit …