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Rated PG Our Content Rating: V-1 ; L-1 ; S/N-0 Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Jeremiah 13:23a Madagascar Directors Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath’s buddy film focuses on four denizens of New York’s Central Park Zoo. It will probably irritate animal rights activists in that most of our heroes …
Rated PG. Our ratings: V-1 ; L-1 ; S/N-1 . Running time: 98 min. For you deliver a humble people, but the haughty eyes you bring down. Psalm 18:27 Dreamer This is the kind of film in which the outcome is a foregone conclusion. Haven’t we been thrilled before by National Velvet and The Black …
Rated PG-13 Our Content Rating: V-5 ; L-2 ; S/N-4 Running time 2 hr 24 minutes Cinderella Man For misery does not come from the earth, nor does trouble sprout from the ground; but human beings are born to trouble just as sparks fly upward. “As for me, I would seek God, and to God …
Rated PG. Our ratings: V-3 ; L-1 ; S/N-1 Running time: Better is a little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble with it. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it. Proverbs 15:16-17 Train children in the right way, and when …
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V- 3; L – 3; S/N – 2. Running time: 1 hour 37 min. The Heart of the Game This exciting basketball film by Ward Serrill is a prime example that we are living in a golden age of documentaries. Mention must be made of film editor Eric Frith, who worked …
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V- ; L- ; S/N- Do not speak evil against one another, brothers and sisters. Whoever speaks evil against another or judges another, speaks evil against the law and judges the law; but i you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. James 4:11 …
Rated PG. Our ratings: V-3 ; L- 0; S/N-0 Running time: 2 hours 15 min. And war broke out in heaven; Michael and his angels fought against the dragon. The dragon and his angels fought back, 8but they were defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven. 9The great dragon was …
Rated PG. Our ratings: V-2 ; L-1 ; S/N-1 . Running time: 1 hour 40 min. When the words that David spoke were heard, they repeated them before Saul; and he sent for him. David said to Saul, ‘Let no one’s heart fail because of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.’ …
Once again it is time to offer up VP’s Top Ten Films list. Perhaps “past” should preface “time,” as most critics have long since published their lists. However, as one dwelling in the hinterlands, that vast space between NYC and LA depicted in the famous NEW YORKER Magazine’s cartoon cover, I wanted to wait until …
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V-2 ; L-3 ; S/N-4 Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil. Then I considered all that my hands had done and the …