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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 …
(“Jagten” in Danish & English) Rated R. Running time: 1 hour 33 min. Our ratings: V-5 ; L-5 ; S-5/N-1 . Our star rating(1-5): 5 My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction, and my neighbors stand far off. Psalm 38.11 He was despised and rejected by others; a man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity; …
(“Jagten” in Danish & English) Rated R. Our ratings: V-5 ; L-5 ; S-5/N-1 . Running time: 1 hour 33 min. My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction, and my neighbors stand far off. Psalm 38.11 He was despised and rejected by others; a man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity; …
Rated R. Our ratings: V -5; L -7; S/N -2. Running time: 1 hour 58 min. (English Subtitled) The Egyptians became ruthless in imposing tasks on the Israelites, and made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and brick and in every kind of field labour. They were ruthless in all the tasks that …
An unusual teacher inspires his male students to think for themselves &relish poetry. Running afoul of superiors, he is fired but leaves an impression.
In Depression era Alabama two young children of a white lawyer witness their father buck racism by defending a black man charged with raping a white woman.
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V -3; L -5; S/N -2. Running time: 2 hours 6 min. Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord! Psalm 27.14 Although this sci-fi thriller takes place 60 years in the future when most of earth’s inhabitants have fled to one of …
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V -3; L -4; S/N -4. Running time: 1 hour 40 min. Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil; for you are with me; your rod and your staff— they comfort me. Psalm 23: 4 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out …
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V-6; L-1; S/N-1 . Running time: 2 hours 22 min. You shall not oppress a resident alien; you know the heart of an alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt. Exodus 23:9 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. …
Rated R. Our ratings: V -3; L -5; S/N -2. Running time: 2 hours 20 min. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents, to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me …