The Book Thief (2013)
Based on a beloved novel, the story is set in Germany in WWII as a young girl must hide with foster parents when the Gestapo arrest her real parents. Click the movie title to read the whole review.
May/June 2013 Journal
The May/June 2013 issue of Visual Parables features reviews of 42, Emperor, No, The Croods, Quartet, The Place, Beyond the Pines, The Call, 21 & Over, Trance, The Company You Keep, Iron Man 3, Admission, Stand Up Guys, Oblivion, Oz the Great & Powerful, Olympus Has Fallen, Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, Jack the Giant Slayer, Genius on Hold, and more.
At Any Price (2013)
Rated R. Our ratings: V -3; L -4; S/N -4. Running time: 1 hour 45 min. Evil plans are an abomination to the Lord, but gracious words are pure. Those who are greedy for unjust gain make trouble for their households, but those who hate bribes will live. Proverbs 15:26-27 What good will it be …
A Dangerous Method (2012)
Rated R. Our ratings: V -1; L -1; S/N-4. Running time: 1 hour 39 min. The heart is devious above all else; it is perverse—who can understand it? Jeremiah 17.9 Jung visits Freud in Vienna. © 2012 Sony Pictures Classics David Cronenberg’s film centers on the two giants of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and …
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V -4; L -3 S/N -1. Running time: 2hours 13 min. Our hero dangles high above the streets of Dubai.© 2011 Paramount Pictures This is a film that shows nothing is impossible if you have vast funds for computer generated effects and a public willing to believe anything—implausible plot devices and …
The Company Men (2010)
Rated R. Our Ratings: V -0; L -5; S -1/N –4. Running time: 1 hour 44 min. What do mortals get from all the toil and strain with which they toil under the sun? 23 For all their days are full of pain, and their work is a vexation; even at night their minds do …
Oceans (2009)
Rated G. Documentary. Length: 1 hour 24 min. O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. Yonder is the sea, great and wide, creeping things innumerable are there, living things both small and great. There go the ships, and Leviathan that you …
Avatar (2009)
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V-5 ; L- 40; S/N-4. Running time: 2 hours 42 min. Listen, you that are deaf; and you that are blind, look up and see! Isaiah 42:18 The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows to bring down the poor and needy, to kill those who walk uprightly; Psalm 37:14 …
10,000 BC (2008)
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 …
Frost/Nixon (2008)
Rated R Our Rating: V-0; L- 3; S/N-0 . Length: 2 hours 2 min. Then the led him up and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. And the devil said to him, ‘To you I will give their glory and all this authority; for it has been given over to …