The Young Messiah (2016)
The “hidden” part of the boyhood of Jesus is imaginatively created by combing Infant Gospel miracles with stories from the Gospels of Luke & Matthew.
Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
The sad story of how the FBI used a Black thief to get close to & set up Black Panther leader Fred Hampton for assassination in Chicago.
April 2016 Journal
In this Issue: The Secret Life of Words, Good Vibrations, Knight of Cups, Embrace of the Serpent, The Young Messiah, Son of Saul, 10 Cloverfield Lane, The Witch, Deadpool, and more.
Film Capsules April 2016
Eye in the Sky Rated R. Running time: 1 hour 42 min. Matthew 10:28-30. This is a fascinating exploration of the ethics of our nation’s engagement in drone warfare to fight terrorists. Helen Mirren plays a British-USA-Kenyan team that has been tracking down a Brit married to a Somali terrorist for six years. Thanks to …
New! Visual Parables Journal for April 2016
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Who Killed Malcolm X? (2020)
This documentary follows an activist intent on proving that 2 men imprisoned for killing Malcolm X are innocent & real killer was free living in Newark.
A Strange Year for Oscar
What a year for the movies, theaters, and the Oscar presentations! Thanks to the deadly pandemic, the year since the last Academy Awards presentation has turned out to be one of the most bizarre years in Oscar’s almost hundred-year-old history. If you are like me, you have been able to see about half of the …
The Star (2017)
Filmmakers insert an action-packed animal story into a fusion of Matthew & Luke’s Nativity stories, supposedly making this more exciting for young viewers.
KORCZAK (1990)
This is the story of the last few years of the life of Dr. Korczak, well known for his writing & radio broadcasts, when the Nazis forced all Jews into t. Warsaw Ghetto, and he tried to protect children in his orphanage from deportation.
KORCZAK (1990)
Dr. Korczak, a famous doc & children’s advocate in 1930s Poland, tries to protect the 200 kids in his orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto, devoting his all when this proves impossible.