Searchers, The

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Goodness reduced to helplessness in the face of evil is the characteristic feature of the moral universe of today’s popular culture

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Anaconda by Luis Llosa is a riot of special effects but as dramatically negligible as you would expect. If you haven’t seen it, see if you can answer the following questions about it. 1. The expedition up the Amazon is (a) to shoot big game, (b) to capture big snakes to sell to zoos, (c)…

A very watchable film with likable characters suffers from a stereotypical view of religious belief and believers

A silly attempt to re-imagine Jane Austen as a romance novelist of our own time inexplicably marooned in the 18^th century