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As Salmon Struggle Upstream to Return to the Place of their Origin so Must Inman Whenever I am drawn into a discussion about whether the film, "Cold Mountain," is better than the novel by Charles Frazier, the film always loses. That's understandable, considering that Frazier's Cold Mountain is one o
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Keep the fires stoked Satan until these two murderous, sorry souls can be sent to your nonhuman resources department. That's the message of this tale of a half-breed Native American hitman, who killed for profit and convenient efficiency, and his admiring sidekick, who mimicked his hero at every opportunity.
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Valerie Plame is married to the former Ambassador to Iraq, Jo Wilson, who was very critical of the Bush administration's incursion into Iraq Theater in the World Wide War on Terror. Valerie Plame was an analyst at the CIA, who had been an operative earlier in her career.
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These were the worst of times in the national nightmare of Germany.
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Reminiscent of the ravaging revenge engendered in the first "Death Wish," "Taken" is an action picture with a purpose and a bit of a message. The purpose is to alert children that our world, at its worse, is not a safe or happy place to live, and is best that one keeps their adventures somewha
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The Biggest Fish in Every Pond was Edward Bloom Or, so he would have us believe. In fact, Tim Burton directed his masterpiece and John August adapted the screenplay from the great Daniel Wallace story just so Edward Bloom could recount his larger that life stories to us, the audience, simply so we c
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The Reversal of the Natural Birth to Death Process Offers a Curious Perspective In "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" a rejected infant overcomes overwhelming obstacles to live a purposeful life in reverse. The natural order of "youth being wasted on the young" is in conflict with the unnatural p
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The priest, Father Flynn, took interest in the first "negro" child, a boy named Donald Miller, in that Catholic School, and Sister Aloysius may have been guilty of imagining too much.
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A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.
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In understanding the symbolic qualities deep within the historical context of this film, one can make the argument that Director Stephen Daldry's adaptation of David Hare's screenplay of the widely read Bernhard Schlink book, is an important film.
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Andrew Wyeth's Helga: A Compulsive Fetish or his Best Work? Probably somewhere in between is the best answer. For all who are not familiar with Wyeth and his Helga Series, I shall endeavor to explain it simply as 240 pieces of work (mostly water color studies, some spontaneous sketch studies in mono
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