Polar Express (2004)

Rated G Our rating: V-1; L-1; S/N-1 Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. Hebrews 11:2 Polar Express When the Star Wars Special Edition was released in 1997, I remember looking at some of the new computer-generated scenes thinking, “Well, they’ve got these effects …

Downfall (2004)

Not rated. Our ratings: V-4 ; L-3 ; S/N-1 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them? Yet you have made them a little lower than God, …

Dear Frankie (2004)

Not Rated Our Content Rating: V-1 ; L-1 ; S/N-1 Running time: 105 minutes As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem. Isaiah 66:13 Dear Frankie Oftentimes silence can convey as much meaning as words. That director Shona Auerbach and screenwriter: Andrea Gibb understand this is …

Crash (2004)

Rated R. Our ratings: V- 5; L-6 ; S/N-5 Running time: 113 minutes For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Ephesians 6:12 Then Peter began to speak to …

Beyond the Sea (2004)

Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V-1; L-4 ; S/N-4 Speak out for those who cannot speak, for the rights of all the destitute. Speak out, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy. Proverbs 31:8-9 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not …

Alexander (2004)

Rated R. Our ratings: V-8 ; L-2 ; S-8/N-7 So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem; also my wisdom remained with me. Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and …

Two Brothers (2004)

Rated PG Our content rating: V-3; L-1; S/N-1. Two Brothers Although this film stars Guy Pearce as hunter and tomb robber Aiden McRory, the real stars of Jean-Jaques Annaud’s environmentally concerned story are two tiger cubs. As with his wonderful 1989 The Bear (reviewed in the Dec. 1990 VP), the director use live animals, enhanced …