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56Defiance: DVD Review
This remarkable movie is based on a true story of a community of 1200 Jews in hiding in the Belorussian woods during WWII. The history of this community was chronicled by Nechama Tec in the book Defiance: The...
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56Deafness In Films
I am fluent in American Sign Language and have spent quite a bit of my life in the deaf community. I was married to a deaf man for eight years, raised foster children with hearing impairment, and was...
9 comments54Atonement DVD Review
This movie is a drama/tragedy directed by Joe Wright*. It is based on Ian McEwan’s critically acclaimed novel of the same name. It tells the tale of thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis, who misunderstands...
16 comments54The Black Dahlia: DVD Review
Black Dahlia is an incredibly, interminably slow moving, plotless wonder. It is essentially about two men who are both prize fighters and policemen who are pitted against each other in the ring as a...
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66Dear Frankie: A DVD Review
Frankie’s mum, Lizzie, has protected him from the truth about his abusive father all his life. She has created a fairy tale that sets his father off to sea on the HMS Accra, and she writes Frankie letters,...
4 comments54The Shape Of Things: DVD Review
This is a rather strange movie that I put in my NetFlix queue because of Rachel Weisz. I had seen her and liked her in Enemy At The Gates so put quite a few of her movies in queue to see her in other roles. ...
3 comments67Elling: A DVD Review
Elling is one of my all time favorite movies, called a "gem" by most reviewers. Elling is the story of two men who are thrown together as unlikely roommates in a mental institution. When the state deems...
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58The Two of Us DVD Review
When French Director, Claude Berri was a little Jewish boy living in Nazi-occupied Paris during WWII, his parents decided that it would be safest to send him to the countryside to live with the Catholic...
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63Dancer In The Dark DVD Review
This movie is about Selma, a Czechoslovakian immigrant who loves to daydream about musicals. Selma lives in a small town in America. She is losing her sight and working desperately in a machine shop to...
13 comments63Across The Universe DVD Review
This is just such a great movie, I had to say something about it. It is a musical written around a collection of Beatles songs. If I had heard about it though a synopsis, I would not have chosen to see it....
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