This week, we feature an inspiring documentary about a music icon’s redemption and a warm family drama about an orphan trying to solve a mystery. New Release ‘Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon’ In this moving film that focuses on Johnny Cash’s spirituality, we follow the legendary musician’s mercurial rise to fame and…
Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for Dec. 9–15
This week, we feature a visual celebration of Albert Einstein and a helpful guide to parenting based on the principles espoused by Aristotle. Fiction A Comic Book Hero That Isn’t ‘Woke’ ‘Isom’ By Eric July Eric July grew up a huge comic book fan and despises the current woke trajectory of the industry. His response?…
Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Conrack’: Jon Voight’s Teach-in on Learning and Living
PG | 1h 46 min | Drama | 1974 Director Martin Ritt’s intimate film draws from “The Water is Wide,” Georgia-born Pat Conroy’s memoir about his experiences as a school teacher on the tiny island of Yamacraw, South Carolina. Descendants of poor black slaves and their families inhabit Yamacraw. The island school is a shack,…
Mountaineer in a Misty Landscape
If the periods of art ever put forth their most-iconic works, Romanticism would surely include “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog,” the oil painting, circa 1818, by German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich. Like the Romantic period itself, this painting is often called sublime: a word meaning “elevated in dignity,” but also, “to pass from…
Film Review: ‘Empire of Light’: Celluloid as a Spiritual Salve
R | 1h 55min | Drama, Romance, Mystery | 9 December 2022 (USA) One of the smallest of all sub-genres, “movies about movies” are usually packed to the rafters with loads of inside baseball industry jargon (which is not necessarily a bad thing if you’re a film junkie) and generally don’t fare well with the masses. Some of the few standouts in…
Film Review: ‘The Scottish Play’: Shakespeare Like You’ve Never Seen Him
PG-13 | 1h 49min | Drama, Comedy, Fantasy | 6 December 2022 (USA) According to the movie site IMDb.com, there have been 1,675 movies and TV shows based on the works of William Shakespeare and another 45 in some form of preproduction—the most of any writer in history. To put those numbers in perspective, the person behind Shakespeare in second place, Charles…
Faith, Family, and Freedom: Why Norman Rockwell’s World War II Masterpiece Still Matters Today
December 7, 2022
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In the winter and spring of 1942, America and her allies were taking some hard punches. The Germans had renewed their offenses in North Africa and the Soviet Union, and their submarine warfare in the North Atlantic inflicted catastrophic losses on convoys sailing from the United States to Europe and Russia. On the other side…
A Child’s Remembrances of Pearl Harbor: The Day of Infamy and the Years of War
On Dec. 7, 1941, in the early morning hours on the beautiful Hawaiian island of Oahu, Dorinda Makanaonalani was eating breakfast with her family when they heard the sounds of low-flying planes; then, almost immediately, loud explosions, followed by more planes passing directly over their house. Her father remarked that it was “unusual” for the…
Celebrating the Sacred Crèche Tradition
For centuries at Christmas, Christians have set up devotional crèches, three-dimensional Nativity scenes that they normally display in their homes, churches, and stores until Jan. 6. That day, Epiphany, is celebrated as the time when the divinity of Jesus was revealed to the Magi, or wise men. These three wise men were the first Gentiles (non-Jews)…
Princes of the Yen | Documentary
December 6, 2022
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“Princes of the Yen” reveals how post-war Japanese society was transformed to suit the agenda of powerful interest groups, and how citizens were kept entirely in the dark about this. History is now repeating itself around the world. * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” – Feature…
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