Eye in the Sky (2015)
A team of British, American, & Kenyan soldiers & politicians debate whether to launch a missile strike against terrorist that might kill also a nearby girl.
Hunger Games: Mocking Jay Part 2 (2015)
In the last of this sci-fi series Katniss sees the dark side of war & politics as she continues to be the symbol of revolt against Pres. Snow’s tyranny.
Film Capsules June 2015
To see the full review at the Visual Parables site, click onto the title of the films that are underlined. Love and Mercy Rated PG-13. Psalm 103:2-5; Jude 1:2. Whether or not you are a fan of Brian Williams and The Beach Boys, this unusual biographical film has plenty of drama and Biblical resonance that …
MaXXXine (2024)
Director Ty West’s hard-R film is only for fans of the horror genre, several of its gory scnes being very graphic. It is part of a trilogy—X, created in 2022, and Pearl, also in that year. I have not sen the others, although I know that all deal with some aspect of filmmaking and the …
Touch (2024)
Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur’s film is for those who love a star-crossed lover’s story. Interestingly enough, it unfolds not in the director’s native Iceland but in London and Hiroshima. We follow this story in two time levels across the decades, starting with a present day old man and flashing back to the end of the …
Twisters (2024)
Director Lee Isaac Chung’s disaster film is about as thrilling as it can get, far more entertaining than a screen full of wisecracking Marvel superheroes. Its love story is predictable, though be forewarned to watch closely the last scene where it diverges from the usual romantic pattern. Though following in the path of Jan de …
The Dead Don’t Hurt (2023)
Viggo Mortensen is both writer and director, as well as star, in this Western set in San Francisco and Nevada during the outbreak of the Civil War. As Westerns go, it is very unorthodox in that so much of it focuses upon the day-to-day survival of a woman left alone on the frontier. The film …
Wings (1966)
As promised in the last issue in my review of The Ascent, here is a brief look at another of Russian filmmaker Larisa Shepitko’s films. Wings was her first film after graduating from the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography, reputed to be the oldest film school in the world. Such subsequent Soviet greats as Andrei …
The Fall Guy (2024)
Whatever genre you think director David Leitch’s new film belongs in— action, crime/mystery, screwball comedy, movie about movies, or romcom—it ranks at the top of that genre. Never a dull moment, the film is a warm tribute to the stunt men (and women) who take the fall for a star who is too valuable to …
Suzume (2022)
Director/writerand his team of animators provide a mythological interpretation for the hundreds of earthquake tremors Japan suffers each year—and particularly for the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami that killed nearly 20,000 people and caused the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster in 2011. This beautifully animated adventure tale is a good one for …