Dheepan (2015)
Fleeing war-torn Sri Lanka, a former Tamil Tiger soldier forms a family with a widow & an orphan to begin life anew in a French housing project despite a violent drug gang.
The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015)
The little known story of The Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan is told, from his study with Cambridge’s Prof. Hardy during WW 1 to his early death back in India in 1920.
Grand Canyon (1991)
10 Los Angelese, white & black, struggle with the sense that the nation is sick and their lives are going nowhere, & then a white & a black become friends.
Cry, the Beloved Country (1995)
An elderly black priest in S.A. during the apartheid era searches for his lost son in Johannesburg whom he fears has fallen into a life of crime & is soon linked to a white father whose son has been killed during a beak-in.
The Liberator (2013)
Simon Bolivar’s story, called The Liberator because he led the revolution against Spain in South America, is told from days as an uninvolved planter & slave owner to those of a leader believing in equality & freedom.
Film Capsules December 2015
Click on a title to see the longer review on Visual Parables’ website—I especially encourage you to do this for Spotlight. I have also seen the new Star Wars film, plus the excellent films Brooklyn, Concussion, and In the Heart of the Sea, but have not had time to finish reviewing them. They will be …
Stonewall (2015)
The historic 1969 uprising of the LGBT community at NYC’s Stonewall Inn is told through the fictional story of a naïve HS senior kicked out by his father.
McFarland, USA (2015)
You’ll love this story of a coach who urges his kids to compete despite the cross-cultural challenges they face. Click the movie title to read my entire review.
Selma (2014)
Prepare for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day by going to see this wonderful movie. Click the movie’s title to read my entire review.
Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace (2000)
NR . Running time: 1 hour 30 min. Our content rating: Violence 2; Language 0; Sex/Nudity 1. The thing that keeps coming back to me is, what is Christianity, and indeed what is Christ, for us today? Dietrich Bonhoeffer, LETTERS & PAPERS FROM PRISON, April 30, 1944 When Christ calls a man, he bids him come …