Birth of a Nation (2016)
In 1831 the slave Nat Turner, who had learned to read & was farmed out by his master to preach a gospel of obedience to other slaves, leads a bloody revolt.
SOME FURTHER THEOLOGICAL RUMINATIONS ON FOUR 1997 FILMS (Including ROSEWOOD)
(The four films reviewed in the April 1997 issue are Secrets & Lies; Marvin’s Room; Sling Blade; and Rosewood.) “It isn’t good for the man to live alone,” the author of the second Genesis creation story has God declare. And so he relates the story of the creation of the woman, the two forming a …
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One Child Nation (2019)
In this documentary about China’s “one child” era co-directors Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang risked arrest and imprisonment for surreptitiously filming many of their interviews in that country. The “one child” policy, in effect from 1979 through 2013, was enacted into law because the government wanted to ward off over-population. The danger to the filmmakers …
Pelé: Birth of a Legend (2016)
Other critics dismiss this story about the Brazilian soccer legend, but I think it will touch your heart. Click the image to read my review.
Birth (2004)
Rated R. Our ratings: V-2 ; L-3 ; S-4/N-2 Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there, doing business and making money.’ Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist …
November 2016 Journal
The November 2016 issue of Visual Parables features reviews on Hacksaw Ridge, Queen of Katwe, Birth of a Nation, 13th, The People vs. Fritz Bauer, American Money, Denial, Max Rose, The Accountant, Middle School: Worst Years, Miss Hokusai, The Dressmaker, and more.
The Inspection(2022)
A homosexual son, cast out by his mother whom he nonetheless loves & continues to contact, joins the Marines to reform his life, but not his sex.
Bamboozled (2000)
Spike Lee has a ball in this show biz satire in which a TV network greenlights a minstrel show filled with terrible racial stereotypes–the plot borrowed from The Producers.
How “Spirit of America” Came to Be
I have posted on FaceBook the video “Spirit of America” for which this provides background information. The attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon on the morning of September 11, 2001 left the nation in shock and mourning. A total of almost 3000 people died in the Twin Towers in New York, at the …
Harriett (2019)
The story of escaped slave Harriet Tubman who went back several times to rescue her family and other slaves.