Tag: Arts & Culture

Wisdom From a Window Washer: 1939’s ‘Honeymoon in Bali’

Poster for “Honeymoon in Bali.” (Paramount Pictures) For those who feel something is missing in their lives—especially successful businesswomen—I recommend the entertaining movie “Honeymoon in Bali” from 1939. This Paramount Production stars Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll, and Allan Jones. An Independent Woman Gail Allen (Carroll), a New York department store’s manager, believes her life is…


Superman: Billion Dollar Limited (1942)

Superman battles train robbers seeking to steal a billion dollars worth of gold. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: http://epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: http://epochoriginal.com Feature Films: https://www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” Follow EpochTV on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/EpochTVus Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/EpochTV Truth…


Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946)

Andy Hardy goes to college after returning from World War II. He is in love with Kay Wilson this time. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: http://epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: http://epochoriginal.com Feature Films: https://www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” Follow EpochTV on…


Book Review: ‘At the Gates of Rome: The Fall of the Eternal City, AD 410’

Don Hollway has followed his debut book, “The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada,” with an absolutely fascinating read: “At the Gates of Rome: The Fall of the Eternal City, AD 410.” Hollway has shown himself to be a true storyteller in the realm of history, and in this new book, he…


Film Review: ‘Sheryl’: Sheryl Crow Documentary Shows Us Why We Shouldn’t Believe Everything We Read

TV-MA | 1h 34m | Documentary | May 6, 2022 Most people became aware of Sheryl Crow via her 1993 debut album, “Tuesday Night Music Club” with the hit song “All I Wanna Do.” I really became aware of her while watching “Woodstock 1994” on VHS about a year after thinking I should have fled Manhattan and…


Life Of Madonna Properzia De’ Rossi, Sculptor Of Bologna

It is an extraordinary thing that in all those arts and all those exercises wherein at any time women have thought fit to play a part in real earnest, they have always become most excellent and famous in no common way, as one might easily demonstrate by an endless number of examples. Everyone, indeed, knows…


Something for Summer Reading: ‘The Prisoner of Zenda’ by Anthony Hope

This “spirited and gallant little book,” as Robert Louis Stevenson called it, is gloriously upbeat, unafraid to take a positive, unapologetic stance on the side of virtue and valor. The best summer books remind people of the warm spirit of optimism that makes life refreshing and exciting. “The Prisoner of Zenda,” written in 1894 by…


Steamboat Bill (1928)

The effete son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father’s crew. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: http://epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: http://epochoriginal.com Feature Films: https://www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” Follow EpochTV on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/EpochTVus Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/EpochTV…


All’s Fair at the Fair (1938)

The World’s Fair, as imagined by the Max Fleischer animation studio. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: http://epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: http://epochoriginal.com Feature Films: https://www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” Follow EpochTV on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/EpochTVus Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/EpochTV Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@EpochTV…


Film Review: ‘Shania Twain: Not Just a Girl’: It Don’t Impress Me Much

TV-MA | 1h 28m | Documentary | July 26, 2022 I appreciate every kind of music. And while I’m not a diehard country fan, at the height of her career, I was definitely a diehard Shania Twain, the babe, fan. I didn’t love that lyric of hers, you know the one: “So you look like Brad Pitt…