I think the movie would have been much better if they would have shown more of the family scenes, like Mario Puzo did in The Godfather. This film showed the Irishman meeting a waitress, but you never see them together in the movie again. You don’t see anything of Jimmy Hoffa’s family or much of Joe Pesci’s family, except for Kathrine Narducci, who was great, playing Joe Pesci’s wife, who wanted to smoke cigarettes in the car. She reminded me of my sister’s ...
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Michael B. Jordan, co-produced and acted as an attorney, Bryan Stevenson, to fight against injustice of black people in Alabama in a true-story trial for murder, in which Walter McMillian (played by Jamie Foxx) was being tried for. The attorney had to fight against a corrupt, racial, bigoted system that included judges and people in important positions in government. This well-done movie shows the racism at various levels in our state government as well as the lower consciousness of people ...
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Based on a true story about a boy raised in Afghanistan who has a friend who is an expert kite flyer. The country is invaded by Russia and then the Taliban. He and his father escape to the United States. He returns ten years later to find his country in chaos and many friends dead. This story is about finding courage and standing up for one's self and being loyal to an ideal. This story is also about good over evil and making right choices. Excellently done and brings the truth of the ...
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From time to time, I do review films that are still in the theaters, because people either should see them or avoid them. I review the best of those in the theaters, that absolutely should be seen, and the worst, that use sophisticated marketing and lies to make the film something more than it is, which is the case in this film.

Writer/Director Terrence Malick has blown it on this one. The sets were pretty amazing, shooting in some of the most rich-and-famous houses in ...
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Sci-Fi/Fantasy

This movie won’t win any Academy Award with present Hollywood politics, but it certainly should for its spiritual and theological content and its special effects. The writer must have read some Continuing Fifth Epochal Revelation from The URANTIA Book and The Cosmic Family volumes. The movie had many spiritual messages of higher revelation. It’s not just an end-of-the-world movie; it has more to do with the destiny of mankind in an ...
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Kundun shows the respect that a community of believers in reincarnation have for a wise and ancient soul.  However, we feel that the religion itself is an evolutionary religion that does not take into consideration recent revelation.  It has a misunderstanding of reincarnation; the transmigration of the soul has to do with interuniversal ascension and is properly called repersonalization–a term which is found and defined in the book, The Cosmic ...
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This film proves that Hollywood can make a great film without unnecessary sex and violence.  It is a film that deals with soul-mates (Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock) finding each other against all odds, with a little help from the supernatural powers that are always there overlooking humankind.The film never shows the helpers behind the scenes, but that's how I saw it.

When two people belong with each other, only the mistake of one or both of them can keep them from ...
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