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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 R. Our ratings: V-2; L-5 ; S/N-6 My heart overflows with a goodly theme; I address my verses to the king; my tongue is like the pen of a ready scribe. Psalm 45:1 Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for you reap whatever you sow. If you sow to your own flesh, …
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V-4 ; L- 1; S/N-3 Phantom of the Opera Director Joel Schumacher and writer-composer-producer Andrew Lloyd Webber may or not have done us a favor in bringing the stage hit to the screen. It all depends on whom you read, with many critics, and this especially seems to be the case …
Rated PG-13 Our content rating: V-1; L-2; S/N-4. …”What do these stones mean?… From Joshua 4:21 And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13 The Notebook Thanks to good directing by Nick Cassavetes, an excellent cast, and a good script by Jeremy Leven and …
Rated PG Our content rating: V-2; L-4; S/N-4. But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people. All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads. Psalm 22:6-7 Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders…. Colossians 4:5a Blessed are you who hunger …
Rated PG-13 Our Content Rating: V-0 ; L-1 ; S/N-2 Running time — 99 minutes For the fate of humans and the fate of animals is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and humans have no advantage over the animals; for all is vanity. All go …
Rated R. Our ratings: V-2 ; L-3 ; S/N-4 “Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you. Deuteronomy 5:16 Children, obey your parents in the …
Rated PG-13 Our content rating: V-2; L-3; S/N-5. But the LORD said to Samuel, Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the LORD sees not as man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart. 1 Samuel …
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 …
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