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Rated R. Our ratings: V- 0; L – 4 ; S/N – 5. Running time: 1 hour 51 min. I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that can do nothing more. But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has …
Originally posted a year ago, I am bringing up from the archives. Here are several films worth watching during the upcoming anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers. Click on the title to see my longer reviews. Note that since I put this together several years ago, I’ve added two films at the end. …
Here are several films worth watching during the upcoming 15th Anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers. Click on the title to see my longer reviews. United 93 (2006) Rated R. Our content ratings: Violence 0; Language 4 ; Sex/Nudity 5. Running time: 1 hour 51 min. This film, unfolding in real time, …
At the 15th anniversary of 9/11, reach back to watch this remarkable collection. Click the image to read my entire review.
A Federal Air Marshall faces disaster when in flight a texter demands a huge sum of money or he will kill a passenger every 20 minutes. Whom can he trust?
A French & a German teenager listen in 1934 to a “Professor” speak about light & 10 years later are brought together by her shortwave radio broadcasts.
Golda Meir is depicted as a strong & compassionate Israeli Prime Minister during the dark days of the Yom Kippur War when Israel was almost defeated by a Soviet-backed Arab coalition.
This article appeared in the CHRISTIAN CENTURY on March 27, 1974. I recently wrote about Henry Fonda quoting from it for “The Best of All in the Family,” which celebrated the 100th episode of the series. This is included in the DVD set of the Fifth Season of All in the Family, on disk 2, …
Canadian director Matt Johnson and co-writer Matthew Miller have gifted us with a comic take on the development of the first smartphone that came to be dubbed the BlackBerry. The meteoritic rise and fall of the company known as RIM, Research in Motion, based in Waterloo, Ontario, is emphasized by the hand-held camera work of …
Based on an iconic 1863 photo, a slave, torn from his family to work on rebel railroad, escapes into a swamp pursued by a cruel slave catcher, winds up in the Union Army.