Joe (2013)
I’m giving this Nicholas Cage movie 5 stars. To read the entire review, click the movie’s title here.
Winter’s Tale (2014)
A love story that spans time and death. In 1915 a robber falls in love with a dying girl and then finds himself sent forward to 2014 to seek her fate.
12 Years a Slave (2013)
The film, based on the memoir of Solomon Northrop, is about his being kidnapped and set to hard labor as a slave on Louisiana plantations before winning his freedom after 12 years
Francesco (1989)
This bio of St. Francis of Assisi covers his life from his playboy days through his conversion, break with his family, founding of a new order ministering to the poor and his stigmata just before his death.
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Percy Jackson is accompanied by a stalwart band of demi-gods in this modern take off on the myth of The Search for the Golden Fleece. Their quest takes them to Washington D.C. and then to The Sea of Monsters A.K.A. The Bermuda Triangle.
To the Wonder (2012)
Terrence Malick’s 2013 film explores 2 types of love & spiritual yearning through the lives of a couple falling in & out love & a Catholic priest afraid of losing his faith.
To the Wonder
Rated R. Our ratings: V-1; L- 1; S/N -5. Running time: 1 hour 52 min.Related Scriptures: Psalm 42:1-2; Song of Solomon 8:6-7; Matthew 5:43-44; Mark 9.24. From the very beginning we see that this highly unusual film will be more of a visual meditation than the ordinary story-based film. As it opens we hear a …
Film Capsules September 2013
Each month, I post a series of very short film reviews—focusing mainly on films that will be fully reviewed in Visual Parables Journal. This capsule-sized feature was started several years ago as a service for clergy, newsletter editors and teachers to alert them to films worth seeing (or, in some cases, as a warning of …
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
This is a fantasy adventure for middle school children in which Percy Jackson, based on the Greek mythological Perseus joins with his friends in search of the Golden Fleece.
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Rated PG. Our ratings: V-4; L -0; S/N -1. Running time: 1 hour 46 Min. I hereby command you: Be strong and courageous; do not be frightened or dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.’ Joshua 1.9 Do not seek your own advantage, but that of others. 1 Corinthians 10.24 …