Life Itself (2014)
If you love movies, you won’t want to miss this wonderful, fascinating look at Roger Ebert’s life. Click the film’s title to read my entire review.
Mississippi Freedom Summer Project 1964: Part 2
The following excerpt from my journal describes a portion of our arrival in Shaw, MS, and first impressions–on Thursday, August 6, 1964. Our trip from Jackson to Shaw was uneventful. (Unlike the experience of a group of volunteers who were shot at on the same road two days before!) Warren warned us, “Remember, you will be in enemy …
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The Last King of Scotland (2006)
When a white doctor just out of med school agrees to work for Idi Amin in Uganda, he discovers not only the man’s brutality but also hard to break away.
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
All the characters of the original are back as Hiccup & his dragon explore & discover a new threat to Berk & a a Dragon Rider whose identity is surprising.
Film Capsules June 20014
Note: The links will connect you to the longer reviews at www.visualparables.org. Belle Rated PG. Isaiah 61:1; Galatians 3:28. Set in 18th century England, this is based on the true story of Dido Belle Mansfield, the mixed blood child whom her sea captain father left with his uncle and aunt, Lord and Lady Mansfield, after …
Erin Brockovich (2000)
A mini-skirted single mother works for a law firm & discovers a power company is polluting the water killing its neighbors. At her urging her boss sues.
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
When giant machines called Sentinels threaten to destroy all mutants The X-Men gather & it decide only Logan can be sent back to 1973 to change the present.
Film Capsules April 2014
To read the longer review click onto the film title. Cesar Chavez Rated PG-13. Malachi 3:5. This film biography of the great Hispanic Grape Boycott leader will remind us that the battle for decent wages, working conditions was as hard fought by Hispanics and as stoutly resisted as the Civil Rights struggle was for African …
César Chavez (2014)
The biography of UFW leader Cesar Chavez shows how he used nonviolence to better the wages & living conditions of Hispanic grape pickers in the 60s.
God Is Not Dead (2014)
A Christian college student challenges his atheistic philosophy prof when the latter demands that students sign a paper declaring God is dead. Very unrealistic story line!