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Fighting for your rights
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Fighting for what’s yours is a theme of Woman in Gold (2015), a drama starring Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds and Daniel Bruhl. Maria Altmann, played by Mirren, is a retiree living in Los Angeles. She discovers a painting of her family’s had been stolen by the Nazis in the 1940’s. The painting, Portrait of Adele…
Braininess
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pveugelaers
I watched a terrible movie about stupid humans; but casting aspersions on the braininess of human beings, which must include the audience, is never going to work. Unless the audience agrees that they are stupid. I do see the sense in making a bad spoof film about human braininess. If humans are dumb, this move…
Connecting with an atheist
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pveugelaers
Dev Patel plays a natural at mathematics in The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016, UK). The Man Who Knew Infinity is a true story and stars Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire, Lion) and Jeremy Irons (The Mission, Reversal of Fortune). A natural Srinivasa Ramanujan, played by Patel, is an inspiration. Working on mathematics comes easy and…
The year’s gone with the wind
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pveugelaers
Gone with the Wind is a traditional holiday movie around Christmas and New Year’s. It has that epic scope that makes it a worthy holiday film. Perhaps a soap opera, this film has people and the days of their lives at its core. It’s told on a huge canvass and is set in the South…
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