It was a time that called for tenderness and tears, but it was also a time that demanded readiness and strength. The young man was about to leave for America. Seeing his mother crying, he hesitated. He suggested staying home. His mother yelled out fiercely through her tears: “Mitri! Mitri! I am ashamed of you!”…
How a Russian Aristocrat Stripped His Title and Left for America to Serve the Poor
AI Is for Artificial Intelligence, Not Artistic Imitation
Commentary Art is the highest form of human expression; that is, art is most effective in evoking and exploring expressions intrinsic to the human experience. There can be no room for what you might call fake art, art that is, at its heart, inauthentic. I examined authenticity in my Honour’s thesis, and submit that authentic…
Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘You Can’t Take It With You’: What True Wealth Means
Not Rated| 2 h 6 min | Drama, Comedy | 1938 Grandpa Vanderhof’s (Lionel Barrymore) eccentric household is the only one in downtown Depression-era New York resisting Anthony Kirby’s (Edward Arnold) business ambitions. Kirby wants a moat of unencumbered land around his munitions business, even if it runs his rivals aground. But Vanderhof won’t sell…
Film Review: ‘The Night of the 12th’: Too Much Too Soon Sabotages This French Crime Thriller
NR | 1h 54min | Drama, Crime, Mystery | 19 May 2023 (France) The winner of six César Awards (the French equivalent of the Oscars), including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay, “The Night of the 12th” (“La nuit du 12”) is one of the most unorthodox and original police procedurals I’ve ever seen. It eschews convention and steadfastly ignores…
Film Review: ‘The Way’: Bringing Back a Soul-Cleansing Classic
PG-13 | Comedy, Drama | May 16, 2023 (re-release) “The Way” was released in 2010 and is soon back in theaters for a limited run. Around the time of it’s debut, one immediately assumed that movie stars Emilio Estevez and his father Martin Sheen, made this movie together with their troubled movie star brother/son Charlie Sheen in…
Rewind, Review, and Re-rate: ‘The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance’
1954 | Not Rated | 2h 3m | Drama, Western Some filmmakers use a narrative trick that almost feels like cheating in order to pique curiosity about their films. This clever setup involves starting a movie in the present and having the characters elude to something critical to the story that happened in the past….
911: The Story of How A Small Alabama Town Became the First in the Country to Adopt the Emergency Hotline
May 16, 2023
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It’s unquestionably the most important phone number in the country. The most recognizable, too. 911. The ubiquitous three digits that revolutionized emergency services in America. Experts call it the most “go to” number in the United States. Most citizens don’t care what you call it, so long as help is on the way. Whether it’s…
Book Recommender: Behind Abraham Lincoln’s Journey From Log Cabin to White House
So much has been written about Abraham Lincoln that it seems impossible to reveal more. Yet John Cribb’s work of historical fiction, “The Rail Splitter,” gives us the emotive, expressive, brooding, and persistent Lincoln long before he became leader of a nation burning with war. Not since Carl Sandburg’s 1926 “Abe Lincoln Grows Up” has…
Lost in Excess: Mark Twain’s Short Story, ‘Hunting the Deceitful Turkey’
Temperance is a very undervalued and much ignored virtue. Though we usually associate temperance with food and drink, we should apply it to everything else in our lives for it brings clarity and order. In his short story, “Hunting the Deceitful Turkey,” Mark Twain shows that surfeit, or excess, in anything leads to trouble. When…
Mozart’s Childhood Opera: ‘Bastien and Bastienne’
Everybody is familiar with Mozart’s most famous operas: “The Magic Flute,” “The Marriage of Figaro,” and “Don Giovanni.” But few are familiar with “Bastien and Bastienne,” a one-act singspiel (a comedic German opera with spoken dialogue), which Mozart composed when he was only 12 years old. It was long considered his first opera, for although…
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