All Saints (2017)
At last! Here is a religious film that truly entertains and inspires! Click the image to read my entire review.
In the Land of Saints and Sinners (2023)
Liam Neeson’s latest foray into violence-laden action films is a little more nuanced than his usual fare. This time he is Finbar Murphy, a widower living in a cottage in the small coastal town of Glencolmcille, Donegal during the Troubles of the mid-70s. He is a good neighbor to the older Rita (Niamh Cusack) across the …
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Pt. 2 (2011)
Rated PG-13. Our ratings: V –4; L –1; S/N –1 Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out himself to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; Isaiah 53:12ab Then Jesus told his disciples, “If any want to become my …
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October 2017 Journal
The October 2017 issue of Visual Parables features review on Marshall, All Saints, Sabina K, Moka, Menashe, Mother, It, Home Again, I’ll Push You, and more.
Concussion (2015)
Nigerian-American Dr. Bennet Omalu discovers that concussions suffered during a football player’s career can lead to mental & health problems has to fight the NFL to get the truth out.
The Book of Life (2014)
In this Mexican tale a bullfighter’s son who prefers to be a musician travels to the world of the dead to win his lover & join his friend in fighting off powerful enemies.
Clare and Francis (2007)
The most complete bio film available of St. Francis in that it includes details of St. Clare & her break from her family as well.
The Grey Zone (2001)
Based on a Jewish survivor’s memoir of a Nazi death camp memoir, this is the unrelieved dark story of compromises men will make to cling to a few more months of life.
Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton
Book Review Pub. 2020 by University of Illinois Press, 286+ pages. B&W illus. Lydia R. Hamessley’s Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton is just what its title indicates, a thorough study of many of the singer’s 3000 songs. Those wanting a full biography of their idol can look elsewhere—and yet because of the personal …
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A Time for Burning (1967)
A documentary depicting a Lutheran White pastor’s attempt in Omaha in 1965 to involve his people in a dialogue with a Black congregation, a project that fails, as skeptical black barber had predicted.