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America Online recently reported its annual list of Top Ten Quotes of the Year, as named by Fred R. Shapiro. I found the list to be somewhat entertaining, partially nostalgic but, most of all, quite less than inspiring. Tops on the list: “I can see Russia from my house!” Such were the words of…guess who?…

I was probably going to see “Valkyrie” even before Tom Cruise’s astonishing mea culpa-esque appearance yesterday on the “Today Show.” The cast is a veritable banquet of my favorite British actors–Tom Wilkinson, Bill Nighy, Kenneth Branagh, the brilliant Eddie Izzard–and I’m a fan of director Bryan Singer’s work, such as “The Usual Suspects” and “X-Men”.…

I was only reading it for the articles, I swear. But an Idol Chatter editor brought this Playboy cover to my attention, featuring model Maria Florencia Onori posing as the Virgin Mary. She’s not naked, but is instead wearing a suggestively draped white cloth. The issue’s release was timed for the day before Mexico’s traditional…

Lost in the hustle and bustle of this past Thanksgiving holiday was one of the most riveting post 9/11, and in this case post 7/7, dramas made to date, “Britz.” This thriller follows the lives of Sohail and Nasima, a brother and sister pair who find divergently different ways to deal with the identity issues…

By Craig Detweiler Reprinted with permission from ConversantLife.com. “Slumdog Millionaire” may be the best film of the year. It juxtaposes the hopes embodied in the game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” with the depressing squalor of slums. Director Danny Boyle captures the sounds, rhythms, and ethos of India. The movie is intense and…

Will Smith stars in this drama about a depressed man who decides to help seven people by killing himself. The film releases on December 19.

By Rebecca Cusey It is no small task taking a movie considered one of the greatest of all times and remaking it. Director Scott Derrickson took on the job of updating 1951’s classic Sci-fi The Day the Earth Stood Still into a slick, action packed new film, which opens today. While the basic elements remain,…

It only takes one line, one look, or one moment to make an ordinary holiday movie an instant classic (think Chevy Chase trying to light up the house in “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”). On the other hand, some Christmas movies have opened to less than stellar reviews and box office numbers, despite great scripts and…

(Note from Beliefnet editor Patton Dodd: Peter Manseau‘s Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter kept me up for hours the night that I began it. I know Manseau to be a gifted, even gripping writer–his memoir, Vows, is a gorgeous page-turner–but I also knew that Songs had something to do with “the last Yiddish poet in…

For a culture commonly stereotyped as prim and proper, the British have always managed to push the envelope when it comes to thought-provoking, controversial documentaries–think Channel 4’s 2002 airing of a live–albeit delayed–autopsy before a paying London audience. Sky Television continued the tradition Wednesday night by airing a 2006 assisted suicide called “The Suicide Tourist.”…
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