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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 PG-13 Our content rating V-0; L-4; S-6/N-1. For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself? Luke 9:25 Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have; for he has said, I will never fail you nor forsake you. …
Rated PG-13 Our Rating: V-4; L-2; S/N-3 The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; thou holdest my lot. The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage. I bless the LORD who gives me counsel; in the night also my heart instructs me. I keep the LORD …
Rated PG-13 Our content rating: V-3; L-1; S/N-1. Those who are my foes without cause are mighty, and many are those who hate me wrongfully. Those who render me evil for good are my adversaries because I follow after good. Do not forsake me, O LORD! O my God, be not far from me! Make …
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What a double bill the next two non-fiction films would make! One is blatantly political, created to discredit and defeat a sitting president who has drawn the ire of the film’s maker. The other seems to be apolitical, but actually is based on a politics very different from that of the first, one perhaps best …
Continue reading “A Double Bill of Documentaries – Fahrenheit 9/11 & America’s Heart & Soul (2004)”
Rated PG-13 Our content rating: V-5; L-2; S/N-2. Then God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps …
Rated R Our content rating: V-0; L-4; S-5/N-0 Whither has your beloved gone, O fairest among women? Whither has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you? … Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the …
Rated PG-13 . Our ratings: V-1 ; L-1 ; S/N- 1. Running Time: 1 hour 31 min. “On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall keep the feast of the LORD seven days; on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and …
Rated NR. Our ratings: V- 3; L- 5; S/N-1 . Running time: 1 hour: 18 min. Deal bountifully with your servant, so that I may live and observe your word. Open my eyes, so that I may behold wondrous things out of your law. I live as an alien in the land; do not hide …
Rated G. Running time: 83 minutes. Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, thou art very great! Thou art clothed with honor and majesty… …Thou makest springs gush forth in the valleys; they flow between the hills, they give drink to every beast of the field; the wild asses quench their thirst. …
Continue reading “The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2003)”