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Why is Lincoln important? It’s obvious. Abraham Lincoln has got to be, as he puts a stop to slavery, at the end of the Civil War, 1865. Daniel Day-Lewis Daniel Day-Lewis plays Abraham Lincoln. Day-Lewis first appeared in feature films in Gandhi (1982, Britain) as the guy on the street who stops Gandhi in his…

In Cocoon (1985, USA), esoteric aliens leave their planet to come to earth. The aliens come to pick up their own kind, who are in cocoons at the bottom of earth’s ocean, and take them back to their alien planet.  Undercover as human beings, they employ the services of a fishing boat captain and dive…

Pele: Birth of a Legend (2016) highlights “ginga”–which means the beautiful game. Ginga was a style of soccer by the subject of this film, Edson Arantes do Nascimento. He is famously and affectionately known as Pele, the Brazilian soccer team forward. Pele’s Brazilian teammates also preferred ginga. The film tells us that ginga’s history goes as…

When Star Trek was funny.  I have written about how Star Trek crossed into the environmentally friendly. That environmental theme was in Star Trek IV The Voyage Home (1986, USA). It was an appropriate theme for the Star Trek series, which looked at life idealistically. The message was to look after the environment, particularly whales, before…
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