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Life at the Movies
The difference between reality and fiction
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pveugelaers
The Hunger Games was a successful blockbuster franchise about the difference between reality and fiction, yet for a film about fiction or reality, it engrossed the viewer in anticipating the outcome as riveting entertainment. It made a star of Jennifer Lawrence who won an Oscar the year after for her role in Silver Linings Playbook.…
Progress in In the Heart of the Sea
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pveugelaers
DVD movie commentary/review A palatable issue is better on the senses than a heavy handed approach to an issue. Of the recent Ron Howard films I have seen, the issues are presented palatably. Howard’s films such as A Beautiful Mind (2001), The Da Vinci Code (2006), and his latest In the Heart of the Sea…
Shared experience
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pveugelaers
The story of Mary Poppins author Pamela Travers, or P.L. Travers, as told in Saving Mr. Banks (2013), is not only about her reluctance to part with her children’s book Mary Poppins, but about why she wrote it in the first place. In that vein, Saving Mr. Banks shares a lesson about experience. For two…
Quest for peace
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pveugelaers
There are movies that hold up the ideal of peace, but it can be a difficult road to hoe. Battlestar Galactica (1978, USA) was one of those movies. Battlestar Galactica was something of a cult phenomenon and the movie merchandise was short lived, but memorable for some boys. It was like Star Wars (1977, USA),…
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