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“Good Fortune,” “Eternity,” and the Return of the Heavenly Comedy

Hollywood has been making movies loosely based around ideas of Christianity for decades. “It’s a Wonderful Life” is a classic example. An angel comes to Earth and shows a man what his friends’ and family’s lives would be like if he’d never been born.  Another is 1991’

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"2000 Meters to Andriivka" is Urgent, important, and Devastating

This week the PBS series “Frontline” released a new documentary film about the war in Ukraine, now available to stream online for free. Originally premiering at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, “2000 Meters to Andriivka” follows a small group of Ukrainian soldiers with a simple mission - fight

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Retro Review: 49th Parallel (1941)

Anyone who has seen Quentin Tarantino’s 2009 movie “Inglourious Basterds” understands the concept of a Nazi propaganda film. The climax of the movie takes place at the premier of a fictional war film called “Nation’s Pride,” produced by Hitler’s Director of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels to inspire continued

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Berger Stumbles With "Ballad of a Small Player"

Last year’s papal succession drama “Conclave” by German director Edward Berger was easily one of my favorite movies of 2024. I had a blast over the holidays rewatching it with my parents just to see their reaction to all the twists and turns. It’s a blast recommending it

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Dispatch from the Middleburg Film Festival

I’m not sure when I first heard about the concept of a film festival, but I definitely understood what they were by the time I was 12 years old. Nineteen ninety-four was the year that “Clerks” and “Four Weddings and a Funeral” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in