A film that fits the troika of being G-rated, Walt Disney-produced, and "Based on a True Story" usually revolves around…
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Time Machine by Dreamcatcher Interactive H.G. Wells’ novel The Time Machine was innovative when first published in 1895 and remains…
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Black Hawk Down recently offered a violent and realistic look at the horrors of war and a tribute to the…
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Ever since Dances With Wolves garnered seven Oscars over a decade ago, Kevin Costner’s career has suffered a steady and…
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The image of independent film making as a staunch refuge of the creative and articulate takes a severe and sappy…
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Ever since Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet it’s been somewhat of a maxim that mismatched couples are eventually doomed, romantically if…
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Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman coined the phrase: "War is Hell." With Black Hawk Down, director Ridley Scott updates…
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