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The film "Knowing" uses the science fiction genre to introduce either theme that are plausible, in these days as our civilization struggles to rediscover its collective soul.

Director Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Brian Selznick's "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" into the fantastic film "Hugo" was a brilliant stroke of passion for the edgy director of quite a few gritty, pathologically viotent films, such as: "Mean Streets," "Taxi Driver," "Raging Bull" and "Goodfellas."

Families can be Difficult ... They also can be one's strength to weather the certain difficulties in life that test any resolve for happiness.

Those were different times in a desperate South, and consequently, this is a story that aches to be told.

This remake of the 1939 film by Director / Actor Gary Sinise, of John Steinbeck's classic novel, communicates well lengths men will go to survive, and yet retain some semblance of dignity.

Depressive tragedy plays out to its conclusion, and finds an entire community in a quandary of rotten choices.

Filmmaker Woody Allen has often dealt with different historical periods, with ancillary interlopers, with varying degrees of success.

This film, by Actress Jodie Foster who also directed, was produced during the time when Actor Gibson was having his last round of domestic skirmishes in his own home, and public opinion for the celebrated actor was at an all time low.