Tag: Arts & Culture

The Wingfeather Saga

Angel Studios is transforming the traditional Hollywood model of creating content by crowdfunding projects that amplify light. In Nashville, I attended the premiere of the Wingfeather Saga, a new animated series that was crowdfunded by over 10,000 angel investors, and sat down with some of the creative team and cast. – BUY Jan 6 DVD:…


Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Despicable Me’: Renaud’s and Coffin’s ‘Man in Black’

PG | 1h 35min | Animation, Comedy | 2010 Some of us think we’re terrible until someone tells us we’re not. By accepting us for who we are, they kindle in us a goodness we didn’t realize we had all along, so we learn to nourish our goodness, and not wallow in our flaws. That’s…


Book Review: ‘Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis’ Fortress Prison’

This past spring, I watched the movie “Operation Mincemeat.” It was based on Ben Macintyre’s book on the British Operation Mincemeat during World War II. There’s plenty of intrigue, clashing personalities, and drama, but the entire scenario—while embellished for film audiences—is true. Macintyre, as an author and a historian, has a deft knack for bringing…


Book Review: Father Alexander Krylov’s ‘How I Became a Man’

When Alexander Krylov was in elementary school, he and his classmates toured the Museum of the Revolution in Moscow. “The female museum guide told us that Communists are genuine heroes,” he recollected years later. She said that “we no longer need to invent gods for ourselves; we divinize the proletarians next door.” The guide went…


Healthcare Unmasked | Documentary

Frustrated with the high cost of health insurance, small business owner Kim Sertich investigates why the cost is so high. Stunned by the outcome, she sets out to find viable and affordable alternatives including direct primary care and health sharing. * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.”…


First Lady Abigail Adams Was a True Helpmate to America’s First Vice President and Second President

Abigail Adams has been lauded by historians and at least one president, Harry Truman, for her grit and keen insight. As the second of the first ladies, Abigail experienced firsthand the fight for a nation and the establishment of America. In fact, it was perhaps the Revolutionary War that shaped who she would become as…


Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Pay It Forward’: One Idea That Can Change the World

PG-13 | 2h 3min | Drama | 2000 A social studies school teacher in Las Vegas, Eugene (Kevin Spacey), challenges his seventh graders through an assignment on their first day back at school: Think up a plan that’ll make the world a better place. Trevor McKinney, 11 (Haley Joel Osment), responds with a “Pay It…


Mark Boonstra: A Judicial View on America’s Decline

Mark Boonstra has been on the Third District of Michigan’s Court of Appeals for the past decade. He is also the author of “In Their Own Words,” a study into the words of the Founding Fathers and what they would think of the current status of America. We discuss his thoughts on the history of…


Poetry: The Original Social Media

It was in an Epoch Times newsroom in July 2012, where my fellow reporter Joshua Philipp and I lamented the state of poetry today. We both had literary backgrounds and had separately come to the very same conclusion: Really good poetry just didn’t have a place to call home anymore. By “really good poetry,” I…


Epoch Watchlist: What to Watch for Nov. 18–24

This week, we feature a dramatic biography of a famous car designer and a compelling remake of a teenage girl seeking justice in the Wild West. New Release ‘Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend’ Frank Grillo stars as Ferruccio Lamborghini in this dramatic biopic about the famous Italian car designer. It shows his humble beginnings…