"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
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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
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Mary Surratt may have been a loving mother, but it would eventually kill her. Regardless, President Lincoln was murdered and retribution must be exacted, irrespective of the accused's culpability.
Published: Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 @ 1:19 am
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Marcus Luttrell wrote this titular story of his one life experience that would forever define who he was, who he is, and who he will remain.
Published: Sunday, January 9th, 2022 @ 12:00 pm
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I know where I was when Osama was killed by Seal Team 6. It was Sunday night in North Carolina, and I was no closer to that cathartic event than was Barack Obama.
Published: Friday, January 7th, 2022 @ 5:34 pm
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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
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Hey ... I got this joke: What is two lawyers, with the sir name of Palmer, chained to a engine block at the bottom of the river. Answer: A good start. Oh, you heard that one, or a variation of it, already.
Published: Thursday, January 6th, 2022 @ 11:10 am
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"Boyhood" is Richard Linklater baby: his nuanced theme, his created tale, his directed story of family, acquaintances and friends that grow into a life from one child's boyhood.
Published: Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 @ 8:26 pm
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The film, "Gravity", makes two broad statements: Outer Space affords one magnificent visual beauty, and there is no place more dangerous in sustaining one's life force.
Published: Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 @ 7:01 pm
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The unsanctified blood and gore, and the unmitigated violence to inflict such, in copious proportions with extreme prejudice, upon one's enemy was the unrelenting theme of this most effective film.
Published: Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 @ 1:35 pm
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"Birdman" is the fast paced glimpse into the drama behind the drama that is ultimately fleshed out on one of the smaller, but venerable stages in New York's major theater district - Broadway.
Published: Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 @ 12:17 pm
By: Wyatt Sanderman Day
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With the 'faith of a mustard seed', one may lose all vestiges of xenophobia.
Published: Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 @ 9:55 am
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"Australia," brought to us via the big screen by Director / Producer / Writer Baz Luhlmann, was epic in scale while concentrating on a pivotal time period (1938 to 1942) in the young history of the former British Colony - Australia.
Published: Tuesday, January 4th, 2022 @ 10:47 pm
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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
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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: Tuesday, January 4th, 2022 @ 3:44 pm
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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
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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
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Famed Chinese Director Yimou Zhang rendered in images, sound and story his poem to his country men, and the world, the allegorical beginning of the Qin Dynasty, and the difficult and bloody birth of what is today the People's Republic of China.
Published: Sunday, January 2nd, 2022 @ 7:25 pm
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Inman is driven toward his inevitable purpose in this love story set against the backdrop of the Civil War in Virginia and North Carolina.
Published: Monday, December 27th, 2021 @ 11:05 am
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Helga Testorf may have been more than just the devoted subject of Andrew Wyeth's largest body of work ... but, with Andrew Wyeth deceased, and Helga and his wife, Betsy, silent, we may never know.
Published: Tuesday, December 25th, 2018 @ 8:40 pm
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Divergent, in the similar formula of Hunger Games, proposes a future world forever changed by a cataclysmic event, against the simmering backdrop of teen angst, and maturing relationships of the opposite sex.
Published: Wednesday, October 28th, 2015 @ 6:26 pm
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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
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I have have attended two free shows at the Turnage Theater recently - a few months ago one where about 30 folks attended a free show, and then just recently where tickets were extended to me.
Published: Sunday, April 26th, 2015 @ 8:40 am
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Clint Eastwood began as a popular television actor during the 'Golden Age' of television, staring as Rowdy Yates, on the fabulous T.V. Western "Rawhide".
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 11:41 am
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The 2015 Oscar awards were most interesting this year on a variety of many levels. A new new, openly Gay, irreverent host; most of the awards going to one of the better films; grown men weeping, "American Sniper" shutout, J.K. Simmons finally wins, and Oprah is sovereign.
Published: Wednesday, March 11th, 2015 @ 8:56 pm
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