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An Awful PriceTyphoon wasn’t the movie I was wishing for. What I wanted to see was a modern day Hero or House of Flying Daggers, but Typhoon just didn’t measure up. Unfortunately, the technical aspects of the movie almost destroyed it from the beginning. The first fifteen minutes or so were so incredibly hard to follow that I couldn’t be sure that I understood the plotline and wished that I had

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While I usually enjoy the productions of Fox Home Entertainment, The Adventures of Ociee Nash is far beneath the quality that I have come to expect. The press notes tout this film as being in “the tradition of classic family fare like Old Yeller and Pollyanna” (Cleveland Plain Dealer), yet I wondered if the reviewer watched the same movie I did. For one, the dog in Old Yeller didn’t have a big

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Before getting too far, let me note that the five films in this collection are intended to be evangelistic tools, and I will review them as such. If this is not your cup of tea, stop here!_____________________________________________First, let’s make one thing clear: I AM A CHRISTIAN—a follower of Jesus Christ! I am not ashamed of that, and (God-enabling) will never deny Him in the face of

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Author: Charles MartinCategory: FictionPublisher: WestbowFormat: PaperbackPub Date: April 2006Price: $14.99ISBN: 1595540547Head vs. Heart: The Crisis of PurposeCharles Martin’s third book, When Crickets Cry: A Novel of the Heart, serves as a treatise on what happens when intellect and faith fight for domination and ultimately come to peace as a complete whole—an undeniable synergistic

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—1. Overview —2. Cast and Crew—3. Photo Pages—4. Trailers, Clips, DVDs, Books, Soundtrack—5. Posters (Owls)—6. Production Notes (pdf)—7. Spiritual Connections—8. Presentation DownloadsNot Just Feathers!Walden Media keeps right on proving that they know how to back the winners! The latest offering from the group who brought us Holes and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The

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Oh To Be Ten Again!His name was Danny Turner. He was ten and I was nine and he was the love of my life…Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment has hit another home run with Little Manhattan! This film arrives on DVD today and is a must-see for anyone who would like to hear (and try to understand) the inner workings of the ten-year-old male mind. Fox touts this movie as “perfect for kids and

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Author: Steve SaintCategory: NonfictionPublisher: SaltriverFormat: HardbackPub Date: Dec. 2005Price: $22.99ISBN: 0842364390“The New Has Come!”Many who read the title of Steven Saint’s book are going to assume they know what the content focuses on, especially if they saw the movie or are old enough to remember the news stories in 1988. They would not be more wrong. Although Saint does return to

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Author: W. Dale CramerCategory: FictionPublisher: Bethany HouseFormat: PaperbackPub Date: June 2005Price: $13.99ISBN: 0764229958Will Times ThreeMeet W. Dale Cramer! Here is an author who can write a novel with multiple complex themes, many-faceted characters, and page-turning great reading without confusing or irritating the reader. Levi’s Will is one of the best novels I have had the pleasure to

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LINKS— Overview— Cast and Crew— Photo Pages ABOUT AS FAR FROM GOD AS YOU CAN GET!Whenever someone says “never” to me, I remind the naysayer that this word will always turn around and bite back eventually. So, when a senior reviewer from Hollywood Jesus asked me if I would take the screening for Slither, I hemmed and hawed for a good thirty seconds before finally deciding that I should give the

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Author: Dan BrownCategory: FictionPublisher: AnchorFormat: PaperbackPub Date: March 2006Price: $7.99ISBN: 978-1-4000-7917-9MORTIFICATION OF THE FICTIONEarly in life, I was taught the dictum, “Don’t believe everything you read.” After reading The DaVinci Code three times now, I am appalled at the way a work of fiction has become such an iconoclastic point of contention around the planet. As the

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ROACHES?!!!!!…ROACHES!You just can’t help but be intrigued by something that comes out of a place named Wacky World Studios, but it was still with great skepticism that I fired up the ole DVD player and prepared to give The Roach Approach a chance. I have to go on record here&mdashI HATE roaches and have a definite predisposition against the whole concept. But, first impressions being what they

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Thief of TimeAlthough the publicity brief on The Thief Lord claims that this exclusive DVD premiere is a “modern-day fairytale in the spellbinding tradition of the Harry Potter series,” I am afraid I must regrettably disagree. The idea to make best-selling author Cornelia Funke’s novel into film was filled with good intentions (as evidenced by the talent assembled to create, produce, and act out

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WHAT PRICE WOULD YOU PAY?One of the most enjoyable aspects of watching films is being introduced to people whom we never will have the opportunity to know—but deeply wish we could. Sophie Scholl is one of those people.In the movie Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, Julia Jentsch plays the young German woman who, along with her brother Hans and three fellow University of Munich students, founded the “

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—1. Overview—2. Cast and Crew—3. Photo Pages—4. Trailers, Clips, DVDs, Books, Soundtrack—5. Posters (Current Films)—6. Production Notes (pdf)—7. Spiritual Connections—8. Presentation DownloadsThe young women in the entertainment business who constantly make the covers of the tabloids, or who are the ad nausea subjects of the daily and weekly TV entertainment shows, paint a picture of what life is

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—1. Overview—2. Cast and Crew—3. Photo Pages—4. Trailers, Clips, DVDs, Books, Soundtrack—5. Posters (Current Films)—6. Production Notes (pdf)—7. Spiritual Connections—8. Presentation DownloadsDirector Elizabeth Allen has triumphed in her feature-directing debut with Aquamarine! I predict that this film will be the pre-summer hit for those lovely young ladies called “tweens”— those lost in the

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Absolutely Delightful!An animated straight-to-DVD release to can be a tricky proposition. Many times it means a mass-produced, go-for-the-buck, less-than-satisfying storyline, and poor continuity in color and drawing—especially if linked in some way to a prior release of any kind. Imagine my surprise and pleasure when none of this was true of Bambi 2! I was fortunate enough to view this wonderful

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LINKS— Overview— Other Reviews — Cast and Crew— Photo Pages See, I told you he was real.” This is the great line that Lucy Pevensie delivers to her two siblings as Father Christmas drives off after leaving them with the gifts that will equip them to fight for Aslan and Narnia. Georgie Henley is a very gifted little actress, but long before she and the others arrived at this scene in The Lion, the

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LINKS—Overview (multimedia)—Overview Basic (dial up speed)—Other Reviews—Cast and Crew—Photo Pages Walking the Red CarpetIF I believed in reincarnation, Walk the Line would be a great movie to prove that theory. Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon (playing Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash) give tour de force performances as they recreate this pair of country western greats. Not only does

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LINKS—Overview (multimedia)—Overview Basic (dial up speed)—Other Reviews—Cast and Crew—Photo Pages What Is Right or What Is Easy?Grab your Thunderbolts and Nimbus 2000s; you are in for a great ride!There is always a palpable sense of tension in an audience that is waiting for a new installment in a series of movies. You can almost hear the thoughts grinding: Will this movie be as good as the

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LINKS— Overview (multimedia)— Overview Basic (dial up speed)— Reviews and Blogs— Cast and Crew— Photo PagesAn Incomplete ConnectionCameron Crowe’s new offering Elizabethtown is described in the production notes as “a uniquely crafted comedy set in the key of life.” A better name for the movie would have been Crowe’s title for the soundtrack, “The Great American Radio Station,” because the music

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LINKS —Overview —Trailers, Photos —About this Film —Spiritual Connections IN REALLY TERRIFIC COMPANY Occasionally a movie comes along that grabs our attention because we recognize our own lives being acted out on the screen. We see so much of ourselves in at least one of the characters that we forget it is just a story that someone is hoping to

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LINKS —Overview —Trailers, Photos —About this Film —Spiritual Connections I’m Ready… I’m Ready… Suspend your disbelief, dust off the child inside, and take your kids to see The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. “I don’t have

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