R | 2h 7min | Drama, Comedy, Adventure | 30 September 2022 (USA) Even before filming began on the final installment of the “High School Musical” franchise in 2008, Zac Efron began the arduous task of battling typecasting and for the most part, he’s achieved that goal. Wanting to avoid the fate of virtually all other heartthrob/pin-up boys that came before him,…
Film Review: ‘The Greatest Beer Run Ever’: A Tad Long but Certainly Worth Your Time
The Sound of the Enemy: How the US Navy’s Ocean Systems Technicians Tracked the Soviets
When Geoff Ugent was discharged from the U.S. Navy, he had to wait 27 years to talk about anything he did for the branch of the military. His former job title, ocean systems technician (OT), sounds more like he worked in oceanography or marine engineering than in one of the most select groups in naval…
Baltasar Gracián: Critic of an Oppressive Age
“Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.” Many variations of this simple advice exist today, but this formulation was originally the motto of a 17th-century Jesuit priest named Baltasar Gracián y Morales. Although not widely known outside of Spain, Gracián does occasionally transcend obscurity. Thirty years ago, Christopher Maurer’s translation of Gracián’s book “The Art of…
A Dangerous Lie: Roberto Benigni’s ‘Life is Beautiful’
Art is powerful. It can make both true and false imaginings seem real. Both “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and the “Communist Manifesto” changed the world—in opposite ways; art without goodness is dangerous. For 70 years the Holocaust has commanded our most serious attention. Hitler’s concentration camps have stood for the greatest of human depravities. They force…
Poet Phyllis McGinley: Champion of Marriage, the Family, and Tradition
October 3, 2022
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Phyllis McGinley (1905-1978) was a victim of cancel culture long before that idea existed. After she’d won the 1961 Pulitzer for her poetry—the first American poet ever to be so honored for light verse—W.D. Snodgrass, who was awarded the Pulitzer the previous year, commented that this “was horrifying; she used to write silly little verses…
Life Under the Horseshoe | Documentary
October 3, 2022
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Life Under the Horseshoe is a fun, entertaining, and historical look at Spring City, Utah’s only live FM stage radio show. The film teaches us a little about history while taking us back to the golden age of radio. * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” –…
How to Be a More Attractive Human Being
What makes someone attractive to others? More specifically, what is arguably the single most attractive quality in another human being? Obviously, there is room for debate here, and different people will put forward different ideas. But if you had to identify one quality that most attracts you to another, what would it be? The most…
Brandy Pie Book Co. Offers Value-Driven Children’s Books
October 2, 2022
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For Kathleen Harward, the heroes and themes in her books are her medicine for today’s social ills. She sees them as antidotes for a generation of youth that would rather blame and destroy instead of solve and create. Her path as an independent publisher of children’s books is one inspired by experience and heart. In…
Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘My Darling Clementine’: One of John Ford’s Greatest Films
Passed | 1h 37min | Drama, Romance, Western | 1946 The year is 1882 and much of the West is still very, very wild. A quartet of brothers, Wyatt (Henry Fonda), Morgan (Ward Bond), Virgil (Tim Holt), and James Earp (Don Garner), are driving a herd of cattle through Arizona, which they hope to sell…
LIVE 1:30 PM ET: 2022 NTD International Chinese Vocal Competition
October 2, 2022
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NTD’s 8th International Chinese Vocal Competition is set to place in New York from Sept. 29 to Oct. 2. The “International Chinese Vocal Competition” is one in a series of international cultural and arts events hosted by NTD Television Network. The aim of the vocal competition is to promote traditional vocal arts of pure authenticity, pure…
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