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03·29·13
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ALISHA'S ANALYSIS I wanted to be with this man, to sit in his presence and feel him smile at me. I wanted to talk with him by the fire and have him dissect my heart. I wanted to feel Jesus pouring endlessly into the empty places in my soul. Few portrayals of the Messiah have caused me to feel this way. Mordago brought it home for me. Read more...
- Alisha Michael
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 WHAT MAKES ART GOOD? For the last few weeks, I've read essays and participated in discussions (some more friendly than others) about the History Channel's The Bible miniseries. I've seen friends find fault with it; I've seen folks who otherwise are ideologically opposed to me pronounce it intriguing. I've read the comments of seminary professors who tear it apart and I've read the breathless comments of some fence-riding "seeker" who saw the love of Jesus in a whole new way. Read more...
- Jacob Sahms
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"I realized I had not seen
[the love story of] two black
people in a major motion picture
before. I mean I've seen Claudine,
I've seen Love Jones, but I'm talking Warner Bros., billboards going up,
trailers on TV and online. I have never in my lifetime seen this!" Read more...
- Yo
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"Forbes has called us Africa's answer
to Pixar, and I guess it's kind of true.
We're very much a voice that hasn't
really been heard on the global
- Steve Norton
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Hemingway & Gelhorn, Hitchcock, Lincoln, Men at Work
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Lincoln's coffee-in-hand,
grandfatherly advice can seem
a little forced, and even corny.
But honestly, I think we as a nation could
learn a thing or two from this film,
showing the President's approachability, willingness to listen to the citizen,
- HJ Staff
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Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan (Melissa Leo) proves to have more mettle than many folks with more bark. Watching her get beaten was one of the hardest things about the film .... In fact, I thought McMillan proved to be braver than Eckhart's rather bland president; but the "stand for what you believe in" message was punched through in Antoine Fuqua's first film since 2010 Brooklyn's Finest. Read more...
- Jacob Sahms
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 This movie is full of big guns, big explosions, and big action. It's kind of silly at times, completely over-the-top at others, and kind of cheesy at still others. But then, this is the kind of stuff we imagined when playing with all our Joe toys. Read more...
- Yo
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Special Coverage of The Hobbit
by Mark Sommer
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 MUSTER OF ROHAN REPORT So, how did Hobbit fans spend their Palm Sunday? Well, many of them spent an hour that day watching Peter Jackson's online preview of the next Hobbit movie, The Desolation of Smaug. So, how Triumphal was this latest Entry by PJ? I guess it depends on what you were expecting. Read more...
- Mark Sommer, Books Editor
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The Place Beyond the Pines
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The scriptures have stories and parables
about fathers who yearn for sons
and sons who discover their
father's love long after they have
turned away.
The Place Beyond the Pines
asks us to ponder the idea of legacy -
what a father passes on to a child.
The most important legacy, whether
speaking of a human or divine father,
-Darrel Manson
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 SUPERMAN IV I have a love/hate relationship with Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. In 1987, when this film was released, I was only five years old. At the age of five, my heart leapt inside my chest whenever Christopher Reeve appeared on screen. Read more...
- Brian Dedmon
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LAWMAN RESURRECTED The trope of the left-for-dead lawman, lone voice for justice and vengeance, is deeply rooted in fiction and cinema. Whether it's Alexander Dumas' The Count of Monte Christo or Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the comic sagas of the Punisher and Spawn or Quentin Tarantino's iconic Kill Bill, we are riveted by stories of revenge and justice.
-Jacob Sahms
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