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The idyllic Pacific coast town of Acapulco in Mexico's Guerrero state once welcomed Hollywood stars and honeymooners, but the city has suffered a wave of bloody violence in recent years, as cartels and criminal groups battle for control.

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The Harris Media videos in Kenya suggested bloody racial violence could ensue should the opposition gain power.

If the FBI's own agents did not directly carry out murder plots, the bureau intensified the climate of violence in which black leaders were slain — just as the CIA set the stage for the kidnapping and then the shooting of General Rent Schneider in Chile and the bloody overthrow of Salvador Allende three years later.

But, Jeremy is stating the APPARENT violence of God (as in bloody violent).

Can he assist us in our ongoing attempt to understand the large - scale political violence of our age — the wars, persecutions, and holocausts which have made the 20th century the bloodiest in history?

Until the next world, violence alone ensured the survival of Christendom — and so, after their victory at the great Battle of Lepanto, Spanish and Italians butchered scores of defeated Turkish seamen thrashing in the bloody seas, determined that the sultan would lose all his skilled bowmen and rowers.

Lots of people wonder why the Bible is so bloody... that is, why there is so much violence and bloodshed in the Bible.

During His life and ministry, Jesus did not engage in bloody violence or acts of vengeance upon anyone.

Nevertheless, there is no mistaking the conscious conflict in the morals of the New Testament between the ethic of love on one side and bloody violence on the other.

I have been reading, teaching, and writing A LOT these past several years on the violence of God in the Bible, and this book also provides the beginning place for understanding these violent, bloody texts in Scripture.

If He does, then how do you make sense of the bloody and violent texts of the Old Testament, and the complete lack of such violence from Jesus in the Gospels?

One thing that we must all hope for is that the Villa and Blues fans will keep their emotions in check a bit more in this season's matches, as the second City Derby has been known to escalate into some really bloody and nasty affairs with significant outbreaks of fan violence during which fans and members of the police were known to experience serious injuries.

In fact, this trial should only be the beginning, since it covers just two, albeit bloody, days in a period of state violence spanning weeks, and in a term of corrupt dictatorship lasting thirty yearIn fact, this trial should only be the beginning, since it covers just two, albeit bloody, days in a period of state violence spanning weeks, and in a term of corrupt dictatorship lasting thirty yearin a period of state violence spanning weeks, and in a term of corrupt dictatorship lasting thirty yearin a term of corrupt dictatorship lasting thirty years.

After another bloody mass shooting — this time at the Newtown elementary school in Connecticut — we are once again left numb and feeling helpless at the senseless violence.

More than 3,000 people died in the nation in bloody post-poll violence which petered out only after the arrest of the Gbagbo couple in 2011, when troops stormed the bunker where they had taken refuge in the nation's main city, Abidjan.

There is violence — the gritty, bloody kind, not the balletic jumping off walls variety — but it is kept firmly in its place and never allowed to take over.

VIOLENCE / GORE 6 - In a close - up, film footage shows a man using a knife to cut a large square of flesh from a grunting man's abdomen; the first man pulls back the bloody flesh and we see snake - like coils writhing through the victim's abdomen.

Where most superhero movies have gone family and broad, Deadpool went adult and rude, and revelled in the possibilities a UK 15 or US R rating opened up in terms of «strong bloody violence», «strong language» and «crude depictions of sexual acts», to quote the British Board of Film Classification.

VIOLENCE / GORE 8 - A man loads a gun and takes another person to a van when something heavy loudly breaks the windshield of the van, leaving large cracks in the glass and causing the van to run straight into a trailer and the man slumps over the wheel; he awakens (we see blood on his forehead and face and he has a large shard of glass stuck in his bloody abdomen) and a hooded man gets into the passenger seat, turns loud music on the radio, takes out an awl, and the slumped man screams and laughs as the hooded man stabs him in the throat, killing him (we see dripping blood on the victim's throat and the hooded man's hands and awl).

Their onscreen violence is luridly graphic, and it works on us in a purely visceral way — we find ourselves longing for the victims to turn the tables, to strike back, to exact bloody, painful vengeance.

VIOLENCE / GORE 6 - Two men fight using spears and swords, punches and kicks: one man is slashed on the face and we see a bloody gash, one man is slashed on the leg and across the abdomen (we see blood), and one man is stabbed in the abdomen and the chest before being thrown over a ledge and falling a great distance, presumably to his death.

VIOLENCE / GORE 7 - A man is shot by a boy repeatedly in the chest and stomach (we see bloody patches on his shirt), and he falls to the ground dead; then another man is shot repeatedly (we see blood on his shirt and splattered on his face), he falls to the ground and twitches, turns over on his back and the boy shoots him in the head again, at very close range.

Close combat, ragdoll explosions, mud, poison gas, and the violence of one of the bloodiest conflicts in history mix with pigeon babysitting.

The Signal (R for brief nudity, pervasive profanity and brutal bloody violence) Experimental, sci - fi adventure flick shot in three parts by a trio of directors (David Bruckner, Dan Bush and Jacob Gentry) and set on New Year's Eve in a mythical city where mysterious electronic transmissions being broadcast via TV, radio and cell phones are sending the citizens who receive them on a homicidal rampage.

It's set in the 1950s, and if the trailer is any indication, there's going to be plenty of well dressed men and even more violence to bloody them up.

In what is hopefully another sign that the Colin Farrell / David Tennant vampire movie will be darker than most recent entries in the genre, the MPAA has given it an R rating for «for bloody horror violence, and language including some sexual references.&raquIn what is hopefully another sign that the Colin Farrell / David Tennant vampire movie will be darker than most recent entries in the genre, the MPAA has given it an R rating for «for bloody horror violence, and language including some sexual references.&raquin the genre, the MPAA has given it an R rating for «for bloody horror violence, and language including some sexual references.»

Let the Right One In Rated R for some bloody violence including disturbing images, brief nudity and language Swedish with English subtitles (English - dubbed version available also) Available on DVD and Blu - ray For those out there that felt Twilight has butchered the vampire genre, never fear (no pun intended), the Swedes are here with this horror masterpiece.

Ready Player One Rated PG - 13 for sequences of sci - fi action violence, bloody images, some suggestive material, partial nudity and language Rotten Tomatoes Score: 76 % In Theaters Based on the best - selling novel by Ernest Cline (and one of my favorite books in recent memory) Ready Player One explores a futuristic world where life in the real world is quite terrible, but people can escape into a virtual reality program called the OASIS, where they can be anyone and do anythinIn Theaters Based on the best - selling novel by Ernest Cline (and one of my favorite books in recent memory) Ready Player One explores a futuristic world where life in the real world is quite terrible, but people can escape into a virtual reality program called the OASIS, where they can be anyone and do anythinin recent memory) Ready Player One explores a futuristic world where life in the real world is quite terrible, but people can escape into a virtual reality program called the OASIS, where they can be anyone and do anythinin the real world is quite terrible, but people can escape into a virtual reality program called the OASIS, where they can be anyone and do anything.

«Breaking In,» a Universal Pictures film, is rated PG - 13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for «violence, menace, bloody images, sexual references, and brief strong language.»

Breaking In (PG - 13 for violence, bloody images, menacing, sexual references and brief profanity) Suspense thriller revolving around a single - mom's (Gabrielle Union) efforts to rescue her kids (Ajiona Alexus and Seth Carr) being held

Annihilation Rated R for violence, bloody images, language and some sexuality Rotten Tomatoes Score: 86 % In Theaters This heavy sci - fi piece from Ex Machina writer / director Alex Garland stars Natalie Portman as an ex-military scientist who leads an all - female mission into an environmental disaster zone in order to try to uncover what happened to the all male team that preceded theIn Theaters This heavy sci - fi piece from Ex Machina writer / director Alex Garland stars Natalie Portman as an ex-military scientist who leads an all - female mission into an environmental disaster zone in order to try to uncover what happened to the all male team that preceded thein order to try to uncover what happened to the all male team that preceded them.

Blade of the Immortal Rated R for bloody violence and carnage throughout Rotten Tomatoes Score: 85 % In Japanese with English Subtitles Available on Disc and Streaming In this newest sword fighting thriller from prolific Japanese director Takashi Miike, a samurai is cursed with immortality after a legendary battle and left for the centuries to kill off evil men until he can regain his soul, and hopefully meet his end.

But, in the spirit of indulging two competing ideas at once, Schrader also has his sleazy, neon side, a fetish for pulpy twists and bloody violence.

Breaking In is rated PG - 13 by the MPAA for violence, menace, bloody images, sexual references, and brief strong language.

The MPAA rated Breaking In PG - 13 for violence, menace, bloody images, sexual references, and brief strong language.

Needless to say, parental concerns here are all about violence, with lots of fist - to - fist and feet - to - face sparring that results in a few bloody moments and fatalities.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Apart (R for violence, profanity and bloody images) Romance thriller about a couple of star - crossed lovers (Olesya Rulin and Josh Danziger) who share a psychological disorder which proves fatal for their friends the deeper they fall in love.

Its uptick in bloody violence would go on to earn the film the first and only PG rating of the series, though that may have more to do with shifting ideas on how the MPAA would approach its G - rated fare.

The video shows Pre-Alpha in - game footage and gives a first impression on how beautiful sunshine and bloody melee violence meet once again — this time in the sunny realms of California.

When it says it is rated R in the U.S. for «strong bloody violence» that's not merely colorful language.

But even as the revelations pile up and the screws tighten and you start to sense that terror and violence are inevitable, the movie never loses grip on what it's about; this is a rare commercial film in which every scene, sequence, composition and line deepens the screenplay's themes — which means that when the bloody ending arrives, it seems less predictable than inevitable and right, as in myths, legends and Bible stories.

(In English and Armenian with subtitles) The Lady (R for violence and bloody images) Michelle Yeoh stars in the title role of this biopic about Nobel Peace Prize - winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the political prisoner recently - freed by the Burmese government after being kept under house arrest for 15 yearIn English and Armenian with subtitles) The Lady (R for violence and bloody images) Michelle Yeoh stars in the title role of this biopic about Nobel Peace Prize - winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the political prisoner recently - freed by the Burmese government after being kept under house arrest for 15 yearin the title role of this biopic about Nobel Peace Prize - winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the political prisoner recently - freed by the Burmese government after being kept under house arrest for 15 years.

(In French and Arabic with subtitles) Red Hill (R for profanity and graphic violence) Bloody revenge saga, set in the Australian Outback, about a young sheriff (Ryan Kwanten) who takes a transfer to a supposedly - serene, remote outpost for the sake of his pregnant wife (Claire van der Boom) only to find the town besieged by an escaped con (Tommy Lewis) with a grudgIn French and Arabic with subtitles) Red Hill (R for profanity and graphic violence) Bloody revenge saga, set in the Australian Outback, about a young sheriff (Ryan Kwanten) who takes a transfer to a supposedly - serene, remote outpost for the sake of his pregnant wife (Claire van der Boom) only to find the town besieged by an escaped con (Tommy Lewis) with a grudgin the Australian Outback, about a young sheriff (Ryan Kwanten) who takes a transfer to a supposedly - serene, remote outpost for the sake of his pregnant wife (Claire van der Boom) only to find the town besieged by an escaped con (Tommy Lewis) with a grudge.

On the heels of «Deadpool,» this R - rated entry allows for bloodier violence and saltier language, and if the storytelling doesn't find new levels of maturity, «The Wolverine» director James Mangold makes the most of his new freedoms, resulting in a rousingly fun character - capper (or is it?).

Army of Darkness: Collector's Edition (Blu - ray) Details: 1992, Scream Factory Rated: graphic horror violence, disturbing images, language The lowdown: A three - disc set featuring the theatrical version, Sam Raimi's director's cut and an international cut in this funny and bloody third chapter of the «Evil Dead» trilogy.

And in a film that mostly shies away from depicting bloody violence onscreen, that's quite a statement.

Seven Psychopaths Rated R for strong violence, bloody images, pervasive language, sexuality / nudity and some drug use Available on DVD and Blu - ray From Martin McDonagh, writer / director of the brilliant indie In Bruges, comes this equally dark little comedy about a struggling writer (Colin Farrell) who gets mixed up with his friend's (Sam Rockwell) dog kidnapping racket.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening December 25, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (R for violence, gore and profanity) There is no peace on Earth this Christmas for the unsuspecting folks in the quiet Colorado town where this sci - fi sequel unfolds pitting the last surviving predator against an army of aliens in a bloody, bestial showdown.

The scenes of bloody, excessive violence are odd and troubling — the former because they are in such stark contrast to the movie's mostly playful demeanor and the latter because Vaughn seems to take such giddy pleasure in them.

A real - time exercise in witty dialogue, cartoonish violence and aim just bad enough to leave its protagonists bloodied but alive through most of its swift duration, «Free Fire» feels like a left - handed project from a filmmaker whose gifts for staging, framing and pacing are on full display but feel ultimately wasted in a glib, down - and - dirty bagatelle.