Acts of the Apostles: Stories from the Early Church (1957) Review

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(More customer reviews)As a student of the Word, this is an excellent teaching tool. The apostle Paul did a lot of traveling and had many interesting encounters. The complete book of Acts is brought to life in this film and remaining biblically integral. It really helps with understanding the events of the early church. I am also a hugh fan of black and white films.

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Movie Bad Girls (Sins of Jezebel / Queen of the Amazons) (1953) Review

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(More customer reviews)VCI Entertainment and Kit Parker Films presents "MOVIE BAD GIRLS DOUBLE FEATURE" (Sins of Jezebel (1954) & Queen of the Amazons (1947) --- (Dolby digitally remastered)...featuring top performances from the '40s and '50s with outstanding drama and screenplays, along with a wonderful cast and supporting actors to bring it all together ... another winner from the vaults of almost forgotten Hollywood gems.
First up we have Lippert Pictures feature "SINS OF JEZEBEL" (1954) (74 min/Color) --- Under Reginald Le Borg (Director), Sigmund Neufeld (Producer), Richard Landau (Screenwriter), Gilbert Warrenton (Cinematographer), Bert Shefter (Composer (Music Score), Carl Pierson (Editor), F. Paul Sylos (Art Director), Paul F. Sylos (Art Director) ----- the cast includes Paulette Goddard (Jezebel), George Nader (Jehuz), John Hoyt (Elijah), Eduard Franz (King Ahab), John Shelton (Loram), Margia Dean (Deborah), Joe Besser (Yonkel, Chariot man), Ludwig Donath (Naboth), Carmen D'Antonio (Dancer) . . . . . our film and story has a scheming wicked princess of Phoenicia named Jezebel whose pagan ways brings destruction to all she comes in contact with ... Paulette Goddard is believeable as Jezebel, with George Nader who is under her magical spell ... will she introduce her pagan idols in place of the God of Israel, what danger lies before the King of Israel Eduard Franz as Ahab ... Sins of Jezebel takes place in 9th Century, B.C., in the city of Jezreel, the prophet Elijah warns Ahab, the King of Israel, against marrying Jezebel the beautiful but evil Phoenician ... on a very small budget this film comes across and delivers the goods and more
BIOS:
1. Paulette Goddard (aka:Marion Goddard Levy)
Date of birth: 3 June 1910 - Whitestone Landing, Long Island, New York
Date of death: 23 April 1990 - Ronco, Switzerland
2. George Nader
Date of birth: 19 October 1921 - Pasadena, California
Date of death: 4 February 2002 - Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California
3. Reginald Le Borg (Director)
Date of birth: 11 December 1902 - Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria)
Date of death: 25 March 1989 - Los Angeles, California
4. Robert L. Lippert (Producer)
Date of birth: 31 March 1909 - Alameda, California, USA
Date of death: 16 November 1976 - Unknown City & State
BONUS FEATURES:
1. Movie Trivia
2. Photo Gallery
3. Three Nuts In Search of A Bolt (trailer)
4. Promises Promises (trailer)
Second on the double bill is a Robert L. Lippert Picture release "QUEEN OF THE AMAZONS" (1947) (61 min/B/W) --- Under Edward F. Finney -(Director / Producer), Roger Merton (Screenwriter), Robert Pittack (Cinematographer), Lee Zahler (Musical Direction/Supervision), John Link (Editor), James Reimer (Art Director) ----- the cast includes Robert Lowery (Gary Lambert), Patricia Morison (Jean Preston), J. Edward Bromberg (Gabby), John Miljan (Narrator/Colonel Jones), Amira Moustafa (Zita, the Amazon Queen), Keith Richards (Wayne Monroe), Bruce Edwards (Greg Jones), Wilson Benge (Professor), Jack George (Commissioner), Cay Forrester (Sugi), Vida Aldana (Tondra), Hassan Khayyam (Moya) . . . . . our story line as woman searches the Amazon jungle for her missing fiancé ... The problem is not that she finds her husband alive and well, but that he has fallen in love with the Amazon Queen ... is the jungle controlled by a tribe of she-devils ... are outsiders safe, or will they be enslaved and tortured by a gang of smugglers ... what's with all the lions roaming the Lippert Picture set, does one of them have a collar ... don't leave the theater you're about to find out in the last reel . . . . . all courtesy of VCI Entertainment, who in my humble opinion is the best there is in restoring early serials and film noir features like this one.
BIOS:
1. Robert Lowery
Date of birth: 17 October 1913 - Kansas City, Missouri
Date of death: 26 December 1971 - Hollywood, California,
2. Patricia Morrison
Date of birth: 19 March 1915 - New York, New York
Date of death: Still Living
3. Edward F Finney (Director)
Date of birth: 18 April 1903 - New York, New York
Date of death: 10 January 1983 - Los Angeles, California
BONUS FEATURES:
1. Movie Trivia
2. Photo Gallery
3. Bad Blonde (trailer)
4. Man Bait (trailer)
5. Unwed Mother (trailer)
Great job by VCI Entertainment for releasing the "MOVIE BAD GIRLS DOUBLE FEATURE" (Sins of Jezebel (1954) & Queen of the Amazons (1947), digital transfere with a clean, clear and crisp print...looking forward to more of the same from the '40s and '50s vintage...order your copy now from Amazon or VCI Entertainment, stay tuned once again for epics and jungle adventures that only VCI Entertainment (King of the Serials) can deliver.
Total Time: 128 mins on DVD ~ VCI Home Video KPF-559 ~ (9/26/2006)

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The Prince of Egypt (1998) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a beautiful movie and a great DVD. The animation is some of the best ever done. Notice, in particular, the life-like Nile River and Red Sea at the beginning and end of the picture. The chariot race that opens the movie is thrilling and the parting of the Red Sea is breath taking. Frankly, I hesitated to see this because I believed that it would just be "The Ten Commandments" re-visited. However, the creators decided to focus on how the God's edict to "Let my people go" would effect the relationship of the two brothers--Rameses and Moses. This point of view permits the audience to have a strong attachment to both characters and the things that happen to them. Another surprise is that the creators did not tone down or "Hollywoodize" the religious aspects of the story. They realized that the great power of this story is its spiritual element. The DVD "extras" make it well worth the price. In particular, I found the comparison drawings showing the creation of the chariot race to be particularly compelling. The music and songs perfectly compliment the action and are never distracting. Clearly, Disney is not the only studio that can create a great animated film.

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The Bible Collection (1996) Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought all of these 6 DVDs separately because I did not know that they came as a set, at a better price! I paid about $15 each, about $90 total, and I do not regret owning them all, but I would have jumped on this set if I had known about it!
Most of these DVDs are very interesting and faithful to Scripture. SAMSON & DELILAH is the weakest of these 6 DVDs, as it spends too much time on non-scriptural characters. ABRAHAM covers many scenes of the 40 year wandering rarely seen on DVD. JACOB is pretty close to Scripture. JOSEPH is great, but it spends a bit too much time rewriting the narration to allow for Ben Kingsley's Potiphar role to expand. I have not yet watched DAVID, but I look forward to Leonard Nimoy's appearance in the film.
Most of these films are 3 hours long, presumably they were mostly all short mini-series when they originally ran on TV. I think only JACOB is about 90 minutes, of the 6 DVDs in this set. You can read about each DVD as they are all sold separately on amazon.com.
All of these 6 DVDs have major TV network, made-for-TV quality, and I am quite surprised and pleased that these movies are so good. I do not know of any better series of Bible stories on DVD.
There is another Box Set available, THE BIBLE SERIES BOX SET, which has 3 other DVDs of this series of movies. JEREMIAH is my favorite of all 9 movies. ESTHER is great, and perhaps the most faithful to Scriptural accuracy and chronology of all 9 movies. SOLOMON is the only 3 hour DVD in this smaller Box Set. There is a GENESIS in this Box Set, but it is not a dramatized movie, just a narration of the book of Genesis, while modern day nomads are shown going about their daily routine. GENESIS is a disappointment and very UNLIKE the other 9 movies, so much so that it doesn't even seem to be part of the same production series.
Bottom Line: I highly recommend that anybody buy both of these box sets, and they will save about 50% over buying each DVD separately! Praise the LORD!

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Veggie Tales: Where's God When I'm S-Scared? - A Lesson in Handling Fear Review

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(More customer reviews)This video was a great dvd. My kids can watch it over and over, and as an adult you can to. The songs are super funa nd you can sing right along when the veggies sing. The Silly Song w/ Larry is histerical. This is one of the best Veggie Tale Videos Ever.

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St. Peter (2008) Review

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(More customer reviews)Excellent Movie, this movie taught me so much about the Apostles Peter, Paul and how they came to KNOW that Jesus Christ was son of God and the relationship Christ had with them. I cried, Omar Sharif was a perfect Peter, as his eyes express so much of the feelings that were experienced when he denied Christ (3) times and also told him he loved him (3) times. The pace of the movie is excellent, the acting superb, and most of all the historical representation (especially the Romans and the Christians),in this cinematic film captures the essence of Christ, and how those closest to him came to KNOW he was son of God and how the Holy Spirit touched those Christians after his resurecction. I would highly recommend this film!

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Jonah - A VeggieTales Movie (2002) Review

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(More customer reviews)Being a member of the more (as Eddie Izzard would say) "Relaxed and groovy" sect of Christianity, it is not surprising that the wonderful VeggieTales series appeals to me, even at the ripe old age of eighteen. The videos not only give God's message in a way that little children can swallow, but sometimes as a young adult with a past of staunch religiousness to live up to, it helps me to understand my faith better to see it through the eyes of a child (or indeed, an asparagus).
So when the first feature by these marvelous people came out, I was among the first to see it. (And if you think I was embarrassed buying a ticket to "Jonah" the weekend that "Red Dragon" opened, well then...you're right) The film was stunning. It holds true to the unique (although some call it Pythonesque) style of the videos but does not depend on the videos for enjoyment. It is original, charming, bright, and Sherlock Holmes couldn't find a hint of dysfunction in the whole eighty-some minutes.
On the way to a concert, the car breaks down and driver Bob the Tomato and navigator Dad Asparagus get help in a nearby seafood restaurant. But the real tragedy is Laura Carrot has lost the backstage pass she won out the car window. Now, Junior thinks this is great because she was being mean and flaunting it. At any rate, Junior encounters three "questionable" characters who call themselves "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything" (See "Very Silly Songs" or "The Ultimate Silly Song Countdown") played by Pa Grape, Larry the Cucumber and Mr. Lunt. They tell a story about "that time when [they] did that one thing with that one guy." This turns out to be Jonah (played to perfection by that green fleshed rival to Sir Lawrnece Olivier, Archibald Asparagus) who is adamantly against delivering God's message to the Ninevites who sin and curse, and even slap people with fish! (A Python reference? Most definitely) So he and the Pirates sail in very much the oposite direction, until a storm makes it apparent that God is very upset with one of them. So Jonah heroically hurls himself into the sea where he is promptly eaten by a whale. The theme is Compassion and Mercy and to remind you that no matter who you are or what kind of aquatic animal you like to slap people with, God says you are deserving of a second chance. I won't tell you how the concert goes because that'll ruin the movie, and I won't tell you how Jonah gets out of the whale because...well, frankly, you should know. It's a very well known story.
What struck me the most was the sheer scale of the project. It wasn't just like watching two and a half Veggie videos back to back (which is not a bad way to spend an afternoon). It was instead marvelously independent of the tapes. With camera sweeps and set designs that wouldn't feel out of place in the latest Pixar/Disney joint. Film students would find nothing wrong with the structure and pace of this cinematic marvel. The characters filled their parts the way we say sitcom actors embody their characters (and maybe it's stupid to say that the performances were good when the "performances" were just voice actors and cartoons, but every slight detail on Archibald's face was carefully designed by the animators to convey a specific emotion and I think the mission was meliphluously accomplished...unless I spelled it wrong). The music was not merely up to Veggie standards, it was simply marvelous. From the childish medley about "Billy Joe McGuffrey" to the Gospel choir (for my money the first reference to African-American culture in the series. Correct me if I'm wrong) singing about a God of "Second Chances" to the "Silly Songs with Larry" vein of "The Credits Song" it was all I could do to run to a shop and buy the soundtrack (a college man has to eat, you know). The end credits also featured a song called "In the Belly of the Whale" performed by Christian rock group Newsboy, which is probably a nod to the Disney tradition of an End Credits Theme. Even the presence of the clearly one hundred percent clownish character of Khalil the half caterpillar/half worm salesman with a regional accent that makes Babbu Bhatt from Seinfeld look like an Oxford English scholar could not take away from the quality of the experience.
So I urge you, Protestants, Catholics, Methodists, Christians, Baptists, Quakers, the lot to take your children, your wives or your sheep to see this movie. (You probably won't enjoy it if you aren't of the faith, because it does come pretty directly from the Bible, but if you can be patient through the religous references and stick around for the fun, go for it!) Don't just go because your kids want to go. Go because it's a funny movie, it's a good movie, it's got a good message and you'll leave feeling pretty good about a thing or two. This is the kind of movie that people need to be making more of and it's the kind of movie people need to be watching more of. I'd see it again in a minute.
I just love those veggies!

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