Category: Film & TV

Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘The Best Years of Our Lives’: Unseen Battles, Uncelebrated Victories

PG | 2h 50min | Drama | 1946 The Veterans Administration (VA) estimated that, in the late 1940s, about one-tenth of America’s population and a fifth of its workforce were veterans of World War II. For the next quarter of a century, America would depend on that beleaguered group of about 20 million (as large…


Hercules

Journey back in time to an age of ancient mysteries, superhuman deeds, and breathtaking, mythical adventures in this thrillingly animated story of the most powerful hero to walk the earth! Presented by Golden Films Produced and directed by Diane Eskenazi * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.”…


Man in the Attic (1953)

After an enigmatic, self-described pathologist rents the attic room of a Victorian house, his landlady begins to suspect her lodger is Jack the Ripper. 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…


Greed Finds a Way

Commentary Forgive me as I steal a line from The Critical Drinker, a movie critic on YouTube. “Greed finds a way…” he said of Jurassic World: Dominion, the latest movie in the Jurassic Park franchise. It is a description that need not contain itself to Hollywood dinosaur flicks when the same could be said of…


Film Review: ‘Lancaster’: British Dam-Busting Bomber of World War II

PG | 1h 50min | Documentary | Oct. 14, 2022 The World War II-era British Lancaster bomber was just as iconic as the American B-17 “Flying Fortress” (immortalized in film and news reels by “The Memphis Belle”), but it holds a more complicated place in British popular history. The plane itself and the men who…


Film Review: “Amsterdam’: A Farcical Period Piece About Proto-Fascism in the USA

R | 2h 14m | Comedy, Farce, Drama | October 7, 2022 “A lot of this actually happened.” So opens the elaborate screwball mystery “Amsterdam,” from  director David O. Russell who brought us “American Hustle,” “The Fighter,” and “Silver Linings Playbook.” Which is to say, it’s an overlong but also sometimes hilariously quirky riff on 1933’s little-known “White…


The Stone Listener | Documentary

At the age of 75, Gabriel Pitteloud is one of the few chimney masons who create handcrafted fireplaces in cut stones. For the man who, for 40 years, has been making the stones sing, the profession has distilled into a philosophy of life. * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later…


‘Neath the Arizona Skies (1934)

A cowboy escorts a little girl whose mother made her the heir of a cashable oil company, and must protect her from an outlaw as they search for the girl’s father. 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…


The Creation of Pure Flix: Opening the Curtain on Faith-Based Films

“Our goal is to make films that uplift and inspire the human spirit, that ultimately bring people to higher levels of insight to who God is and the purpose that he has for their lives.” That’s the mission statement of Pure Flix—the production company and on-demand streaming service behind the “God’s Not Dead” film franchise—as told…


Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘Only the Valiant’: A Well-Paced, Generally Fun Western

1951 | Approved | 1h 45m I’ve always associated great Western films with the likes of John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, and Henry Fonda. But after watching Gregory Peck in Westerns such as “The Gunfighter” (1950) and “The Big Country” (1958), I’ll happily watch anything when the words “Peck” and “Western” are associated together. And fortunately,…