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Rated PG. Our Ratings: V-9 ;L -1; S/N –1. Running time: 1 hour 20 min. Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up the other; but woe to one who is alone and falls and does not have another to help. …
Rated PG. Our ratings: V-3; L-; S/N Running time: 2 hours 8 min. Then his mother and his brothers came; and standing outside, they sent to him and called him. 32A crowd was sitting around him; and they said to him, ‘Your mother and your brothers and sisters* are outside, asking for you.’ 33And he …
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V- 4; L-0 ; S/N-3. Running time: 1 hour 49 min. And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its …
This telephone interview with the author is reprinted from the Spring 2007 issue of Visual Parables. The review of the Disney film based on the book is also included in that issue. The release of the Disney film Bridge to Terabithia, based on a Newbery Award book, was the occasion for my interview with its author …
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Rated PG. Our ratings: V-2 ; L-1 ; S/N-1 . Running time: 1 hour 35 minutes) Walt Disney and Walden Media Films He has rescued us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Colossians 1:12-14 See that none …
Rated R. Our ratings: V-0; L-2; S/N-6. Running time: 1 hour 46 min. Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life. Proverbs 13:12 Shop Girl Mirabelle (Claire Danes) is a quiet observer of life, with even her job symbolic of her life thus far. An employee of an …
Rated R. Our ratings: V-1; L-5; S-5/N-7 Are you old enough to remember all the controversy in 1959 over the word used in the courtroom thriller Anatomy of a Murder? Some people were almost as aghast over its use as when Clark Gable’s Rhett Butler uttered the forbidden “d” word to Scarlett. The word was …
Rated R. Our ratings: V-6; L-4; S/N-3 Running time: 1 hour 25 min. Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. Look, the tears of the oppressed—with no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power—with no one to comfort them. And I thought the dead, …
Rated PG-13 Our content rating: V-3; L-1; S/N-3. Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s film of romantic love set in German occupied France has the look and feel of a big budget production—and yet has come and gone quickly from our local art house theater. Thus is the fate of so many subtitled films, no matter how worthy. This …