Boyhood (2014)
I’m urging you to see this film, which follows the same boy across 12 years from childhood to college. Click on the film title to read my entire review.
NOAH (2014)
Loosely based on the Bible story, this is a special effects-generated adventure tale in which Noah and family must fight for the ark & worry about t. future.
Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Rated PG-13. Running Time: 1 hour 56 min. Our content rating: Violence 4; Language 1; Sex/Nudity 0 Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end… And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the …
The Visual Bible: The Gospel of John (2003)
The Gospel of John uses the text of The Good News Bible as its script, relating the story of Jesus from baptism to death & resurrection.
The Visual Bible: MATTHEW (1993)
A filmed version of the NIV text of Matthew’s Gospel in which Richard Kiley’s Matthew dictates the text, the camera switching to actors who speak dialogue.
Film Capsules January 2014
On Cable Zorba the Greek I am placing this film capsule first because of the time constraint. Turner Classic Films will air this, one of the great films of the 20th century, on Saturday afternoon (3:30 EST), Jan. 11. Perhaps Anthony Quinn’s greatest role, Zorba expresses both the joy and the pain of life through …
Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
Walt Disney goes all out to persuade P.L. Travers to let him film her Mary Poppins. Afraid that he will ruin her work by making it too cute, she resists.
The Christmas Candle (2013)
A skeptical pastor in a rural church in Victorian England runs up against the village legend that every 25 years an angel blesses one candle so that the fortunate purchaser will be granted a miracle.
Jesus of Nazareth (1977)
Franco Zefirelli draws from all 4 gospels the mat erial for this retelling of the life of Christ, from birth at Bethlehem through his death & resurrection.
Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax
Rated PG. Our ratings: V -2; L -1; S/N -3 . Running time: 1 hour God spoke: “Let us make human beings in our image, make them reflecting our natureSo they can be responsible for the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the cattle, And, yes, Earth itself, and every animal …