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Ridley Scott employed the perfect balance of narrative, cinematic imagery and adventure to build the timeless tale of a once great empire beginning its fall into the moral decay that was Rome.
Published: Sunday, January 26th, 2025 @ 5:22 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The toughest and bloodiest war ever fought on this planet was fought all over the globe in two theaters of action. This is the story about one of them -The Pacific.
Published: Sunday, March 27th, 2022 @ 5:53 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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The redemptive process, from seeing clearly the good and the bad of terrible times, defines and hones the best of humanity, and thus has preserved our species for millennia, and may sustain us for many more.
Published: Friday, January 28th, 2022 @ 5:53 am
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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Polish immigrant Leonard Chess wanted a better life, and he built it on the talented backs of some pretty good musicians, like Muddy Waters, Etta James, Howl'n Wolfe, Willie Dixon and Chuck Berry.
Published: Monday, January 24th, 2022 @ 3:13 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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"Goodbye My Sweetheart, Hello Vietnam" This refrain from Dave Dudley's country ditty, an integral melody in the soundtrack of the classic "Full Metal Jacket" regarding a more patriotic approach to the Vietnam predicament.
Published: Friday, January 21st, 2022 @ 7:58 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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I always wanted to know an Atticus Finch, and yet I never quite met him. I never found him in any of my coaches, my teachers, my friends, the fathers of my friends.
Published: Thursday, January 20th, 2022 @ 10:44 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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"But Now he's (Wyatt) going to be a marshal and an outlaw. Best of both worlds, son." These words were spoken by a tubercular Doc Holliday, played by a gaunt 145 pound Dennis Quaid.
Published: Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 @ 12:16 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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This tiny independent film is an enigma. It is also one of the ten most important indies in the last 25 years for one reason: It could not have survived, and prospered without its singular visionary.
Published: Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 @ 1:58 am
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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"Vanilla Sky," as the remake of the Spanish film "Open Your Eyes," is one of the most misunderstood films of that decade, and is generally fated as the lesser film as the remake.
Published: Thursday, January 6th, 2022 @ 1:51 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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Both boys are the "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas." Their individual stories that led them to that conclusion represent the intertwined paths of these two fated peoples: the Germans and the Jews.
Published: Tuesday, January 4th, 2022 @ 6:16 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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This Francis Ford Coppola classic, about a man trying to hold his family together while seeking the American Dream, launched the careers of a number of America's greatest actors.
Published: Monday, January 3rd, 2022 @ 9:09 am
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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Touching film full of life lessons, with more than its share of unforced humor, "The Blind Side" was easily one of the best films of 2009.
Published: Monday, January 3rd, 2022 @ 5:31 am
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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They came from all over the United States to become part of something new - the 101st Airborne. These young Americans learned how to fight, but moreover, they learned to be brothers.
Published: Sunday, January 2nd, 2022 @ 8:24 am
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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Just the film title itself, "Pulp Fiction" denotes a lightweight film. If one dissects the story, the message, the importance of the film, "Pulp Fiction" comes up light.
Published: Saturday, January 1st, 2022 @ 12:10 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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Royal "Died Tragically Rescuing his Family from the Wreckage of a Destroyed Sinking Battleship"
Published: Saturday, January 1st, 2022 @ 9:16 am
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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Once Upon a Time in the West is a surreal exploration of an Italian director's view of the lawless West.
Published: Friday, December 31st, 2021 @ 10:23 am
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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This remake of the 1939 film by Director /Actor Gary Sinise, of John Steinbeck's classic novel, communicates well the lengths men will go to survive, and yet retain some semblance of dignity.
Published: Thursday, December 30th, 2021 @ 7:20 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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Infrequent Screenwriter / Director Cameron Crowe made another indelible mark in this film about himself, and how he did, or may would have interacted with notable Rock 'n' Roll artists, who humorously struggle to become dysfunctional Rock 'n' Roll stars.
Published: Thursday, December 30th, 2021 @ 2:53 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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"Forrest Gump" is one of the five best films ever made. It is the best of American art ... in scope, in tone, in message.
Published: Wednesday, December 29th, 2021 @ 9:51 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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One of the 10 best films in the last 25 years is the film that offers each of us a unique perspective into our well considered lives.
Published: Wednesday, December 29th, 2021 @ 6:15 am
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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The Last Waltz is arguably Oscar Winner Martin Scorsese's best film as it documents The Band as they bid fairwell to an eclectic collection of their most adoring fans.
Published: Tuesday, December 28th, 2021 @ 9:34 am
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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Jean Shepherd's humorist view a of one family's Christmas skewed toward the bizarre in a very cold northern Indiana - very industrial, very middleclass, and of course, very funny.
Published: Saturday, May 16th, 2015 @ 2:06 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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