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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 R. Our ratings: V-4 ; L-5 ; S/N-3 Whoever digs a pit will fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall will be bitten by a snake. Ecclesiastes 10:8 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Director and co-writer Wes Anderson’s current film seems to lack the energy of his previous two quirky films …
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Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V-4 ; L-4 ; S/N-2 If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small. Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. Proverbs 24:10-11 (RSV) Ladder 49 It has been 13 years since a major film centered on …
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 R Our content rating V-8; L-4; S/N-2. Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil. Jeremiah 13:23 General Template Because of the flashbacks in Vo. 2, we can now appreciate better the first Kill Bill. Quentin Tarantino provides us …
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 ratings: V-1 ; L-2 ; S/N-3 The righteous walk in integrity— happy are the children who follow them! … The glory of youths is their strength, but the beauty of the aged is their gray hair. Proverbs 20:7,29 In Good Company Set in the world of corporate take-overs, Paul Weitz’s film …
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V- 4; L-3 ; S/N-1 Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to see the sun. Even those who live many years should rejoice in them all; yet let them remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity. Rejoice, young man, while …
Rated R. Our ratings: V-8; L-5; S-5/N-3 For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever. Psalm 9:18 It (love) bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things… And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love. …
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V-0 ; L-2 ; S-5/N-0 You have turned my mourning into dancing; you have taken off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy, so that my soul may praise you and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to you forever. Psalm 30:11-12 Shall We Dance? Although …