MELBOURNE, Australia—After premiering alongside more than 120 feature-length and short documentaries, the award-winning human rights documentary “Eternal Spring” has won the “Supreme Award” at the internationally acclaimed Melbourne Documentary Film Festival (MDFF). The Canadian-made documentary, which uses a mixture of animation and interviews to tell the true story of a group of Falun Gong practitioners…
‘Eternal Spring’ Documentary Wins ‘Supreme Award’ at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Dunkirk’: Christopher Nolan’s Masterpiece on War
PG-13 | 1h 46m | Action, Drama, History | July 21, 2017 “Dunkirk” goes on the same shelf with “Apocalypse Now,” “Platoon,” “Saving Private Ryan,” and “Braveheart.” The only difference is that those four premiere war movies contain brief flashes of levity and even fun, whereas “Dunkirk” is one long, sustained note of grim melancholy. This is not…
Film Review: 2017’S ‘The Greatest Showman,’ a Musical With Traditional Values
PG | 1h 45min | Drama, Musical | Dec. 20, 2017 (USA) A new musical that celebrates marriage, family, and the American Dream. Impossible, right? “The Greatest Showman” (2017) isn’t quite new, but it’s the best movie musical to appear in many years. It’s based on the life of visionary showman P.T. Barnum (1810–91), whose Barnum & Bailey Circus, founded in…
Swing High, Swing Low (1937)
A hairdresser stranded in Panama moves in with an ex-soldier and his hypochondriac roommate; she and the former fall in love, but their romance is threatened by success and the arrival of his old flame. 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…
Hook, Line, and Sinker (1930)
Two fast-talking insurance salesmen meet Mary, who is running away from her wealthy mother, and they agree to help her run a hotel that she owns. When they find out that the hotel is run down and nearly abandoned, they launch a phony PR campaign that presents the hotel as a resort favored by the…
Popcorn and Inspiration: 1951’s ‘The Red Badge of Courage’
Passed | 1h 9min | Drama, War | 1951 Compared to World War II and the Vietnam War, equally important conflicts such as the American Civil War (1861–65) aren’t covered as much—at least in the realm of cinema. But back in 1951, visionary director John Huston made a film about a detachment of young Civil…
Film Review: ‘Purple Hearts’: A Marine and a Feminist Walk Into a Bar …
TV-14 | 2h 2m | Drama, Romance | July 29, 2022 Rotten Tomatoes: “Purple Hearts”: Critics: 25—Audience: 88 The small, liberal film-critic community is pontificating from a tiny island isolated in the ocean of America’s largely conservative Silent Majority, via the huge megaphone of Rotten Tomatoes. The numbers don’t lie: Movie-going America loves patriotic and military themes, and…
Pot o’ Gold (1941)
Jimmy goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle’s worst enemy because of their love for music and in-house band that constantly practices. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: http://epochcinema.com Epoch Original content:…
Baby Huey: Quack-a-Doodle-Doo (1950)
His Mama is the only one who loves Baby Huey, an overgrown clumsy ugly duckling. The other Mamas and their broods shun him like the plague and make his little life miserable. But when a ferocious fox attacks the barnyard, Huey comes to the rescue. Huey is a hero basking in his newfound popularity. First…
Superman: Showdown (1942)
A crook dressed as Superman commits a series of robberies. The real Superman must work fast to counter the bad publicity. 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…
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