Tag: Arts & Culture

Epoch Watchlist: What to Watch for July 22–28

This week, we look at a quirky comedy about inept crooks, as well as a sobering documentary about the horrors of the Nazi death camps. New Release ‘From Where They Stood’ Nazi prisoners in different death camps risked their lives to snap pictures of their horrible existence, which the world was largely unaware of at…


Film Review: ‘The Gray Man’: Top-Notch Spy Novel Destroyed by Wokeness

PG-13 | 2h 2m | Action, Thriller, Comedy | July 22, 2022 I usually agree with the audience instead of the critics on Rotten Tomatoes. The audience rating usually comes from a visceral place—it’s more common sense-based and truthful. However, “The Gray Man” is currently rated at 50 by the critics, and 90 by the audience and, I…


Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for July 22–28

This week, we feature the harrowing story of a Filipina war widow’s courage, and an insightful commentary on the effects of America’s fixation on youth. Fiction A Story of Second Chances ‘The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry: A Novel’ By Gabrielle Zevin A.J. Fikry is a curmudgeon. Life hasn’t panned out how he’d planned. He’s…


Superman: The Bulleteers (1942)

Superman faces extortionists with a super-powerful rocket car. 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 Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/epochtv Facebook:…


Charlie Chaplin: Getting Acquainted, or A Fair Exchange (1914)

A continuous exchange of meetings between husbands and wives of different couples in which a policeman intrudes in daring chase until both couples are found. 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…


Something for Summer Reading: ‘Mr. Midshipman Easy’ by Captain Frederick Marryat

Most readers appreciate a thoroughly entertaining read, and such books can especially delight during the long, hot days of summer. If, as you’re sitting on the beach or near a pool or just in your backyard, you come across a nautical page-turner that includes a little scintillating satire, fantastic farce, and daredevil heroes too dashing…


Raphael: Architect, Archaeologist, and Protector of Ancient Rome

LONDON—Renaissance architects once used ancient Roman art as building materials. You read that right. In Rome, workmen quarried ancient sites and turned ancient sculptures and decorative arts into mortar. In a 1519 letter to Pope Leo X, Raphael and his friend the courtier and diplomat Baldassare Castiglione appealed to the pope to protect the city’s…


Popeye: Fright to the Finish (1954)

Olive is reading ghost stories to the boys. Popeye scoffs; Bluto decides to take advantage of this by staging various pranks (a headless man, an animated skeleton, and a sheet-over-balloon ghost). He pins the blame on Popeye and then goes to comfort Olive. Popeye retaliates by turning invisible, thanks to a jar of vanishing cream….


Popeye the Sailor Man: I Don’t Scare (1956)

Bluto bullies Popeye and attempts to sabotage Popeye’s date with Olive. Animation by Tom Johnson and Frank Endres Music by Winston Sharples Produced in 1956 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…


Film Review: ‘Bowen’s Heart’: A Physically Challenged Young Boy’s Heart-Rendering and Inspiring Story   

NR | 1h 31min | Documentary, Biography | 14 July 2022 (USA) It would be next to impossible for anyone with even half a soul to sit through a movie such as “Bowen’s Heart” and not get goose bumps or maybe shed a tear or two. Overcoming adversity while providing inspiration to others is a winning combination for any human-interest movie,…