Max (2015)
When a boy’s Marine dog handler brother is killed in Kandahar, the teenager becomes the dog’s new owner and must deal with its trauma as well as a gun running gang.
High Noon (2000)
Deserted by everyone, including his new bride & his deputy, a US Marshall must face alone the killer arriving on the noon train, who will be met by several henchmen.
Metalhead (2013)
Grieving the death of her brother, Hera takes his guitar & all to become a metalhead, often acting out her anger inappropriately. Peace comes to her through an unconventional pastor & her mother, who has just let go of her own grief.
Wasn’t It Nice in the NEIGHBORHOOD?
Fond Memories of Fred Rogers The following article is reprinted from the May 2003 Visual Parables in which I held forth on Fred Rogers following his untimely death. I’m posting it here because a new book by Michael G. Long, Peaceful Neighbor: Discovering the Countercultural Mister Rogers, has just been published. The book argues that he …
Film Capsules March 2015
At Theaters Still Alice Rated PG-13. Ecclesiastes 9:11-12; Deuteronomy 4:9. See why Julianne Moore deserved her Best Actress Oscar in this wrenching drama about loss and love. Her Alice is a distinguished Columbia University professor whose diagnosis of early Alzheimer’s disease. Worst yet, it is a rare genetic form so there is a 50% chance …
The Interview (2014)
Two buffoon TV journalists, invited to interview the dictator of North Korea, are recruited by the CIA to assassinate him with poison.
Miss. Freedom Summer Project Part 16
Some observations of incidents that occurred on various dates. One night while I was on duty at the Center an old man came in and asked to see “My freedoms.” Uncertain as to what he meant, I tried to draw him out. He kept saying, “My freedoms. You know – they’re written down, and I …
American Sniper (2014)
This is the true story of legendary American SEAL Chris Kyle, America’s most lethal sniper, who fought demons at home as well as enemies in Iraq.
Dead Man Walking (1995)
A nun risks upsetting her colleagues, her family, & parents of two dead lovers by becoming the spiritual counselor to the vain man who raped & killed them.
Miss. Freedom Summer Project Part 13
Friday night we ate supper in what could only be described as a “dive.” We would have been scared to death to enter such a place in the North. People sitting around drinking & talking. Several dancing, many of them quite high. Everyone nodding or saying hello as we walked in. Roger & I had …