Category: Film & TV

Cinema Film Review: ‘Finding Courage’

Not Rated | 1h20m | Documentary | 2020 In 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime ordered the eradication of the meditation practice known as Falun Gong. What is so insidious about the subsequent roundup, torture, and murder of thousands of the movement’s practitioners is that Falun Gong is an entirely peaceful practice with no…


Film Review: ‘Not Okay’: A Parable About Faking Your Life on the Internet

R | 1h 40 | Comedy, Drama | July 29, 2022 The increasingly potent desire to build a personal online brand and get thousands of “likes” is viewed by many as the downfall of modern civilization. “Not Okay” is already old hat in the new genre about the old human foible of selling one’s soul to the devil…


Film Review: ‘Not Okay’: A Warning About Faking Your Life on the Internet

R | 1h 40 | Comedy, Drama | July 29, 2022 The increasingly potent desire to build a personal online brand and get thousands of “likes” is viewed by many as the downfall of modern civilization. “Not Okay” is already old hat in the new genre about the old human foible of selling one’s soul to the devil…


Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘Halls of Montezuma’: Character-Driven Portrayal of U.S. Marines in the Pacific Theater

Not Rated | 1h 53min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 1951 “Halls of Montezuma” is an action-packed World War II film about U.S. Marines performing an amphibious assault on a Japanese-controlled island. This film is presented as more of a character-driven drama—albeit in the form of some war-film archetypes. What could have resulted in a…


Superman: Destruction Inc. (1942)

Superman versus saboteurs at the Metropolis Munitions Plant. 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:…


Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)

This is Abbott & Costello’s version of the famous fairy tale about a young boy who trades the family cow for magic beans. 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.”…


TV Miniseries Review: 2021’s ‘New Gold Mountain’: Prospecting in Perilous Australian Goldfields

MPAA-15+ | 4 episodes | DVD | Oct. 13, 2021 In the Australian Goldfields of Ballarat, racism against Chinese immigrants is rife. Bloody riots are not uncommon, but the colonial authorities prefer to use punitive taxation to keep them down. The shrewd headman of the Chinese prospecting community tries to mount a campaign against a newly proposed round of taxes, but…


Popeye the Sailor – Nearly Weds (1956)

Popeye and Bluto both plan to marry Olive Oyl, but Popeye proposes first. When Olive says, “Yes!” to Popeye, Bluto sets out to make Popeye look bad, break up the wedding, and win Olive over. 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…


The Time of Your Life (1948)

A wide variety of persons come into Nick’s Pacific Street Saloon, some to ask for work and others just to pass the 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.”…


‘Close to My Heart’ From 1951: Adopted Joy

I love discovering new movies I can recommend to readers of The Epoch Times. With the powerful leading couple of Ray Milland and Gene Tierney, plus an interesting premise, I was expecting it to be good. However, I wasn’t expecting it to be so timely. Milland and Tierney star as Brad and Midge Sheridan, a…