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Reviewing the Lord of the Rings Series (2001-Present)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)Release Date: December 10, 2001Director: Peter JacksonStudio: New Line Cinema The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)Release Date: December 5, 2002Director: Peter JacksonStudio: New Line Cinema The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)Release Date: December 1, 2003Director: Peter JacksonStudio: […]
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The Twilight Zone: Season 3, Episode Twenty “Showdown with Rance McGrew”
Original Air Date: February 2, 1962Writer: Rod SerlingDirector: Christian Nyby “Some one hundred-odd years ago, a motley collection of tough moustaches galloped across the West and left behind a raft of legends and legerdemains. And it seems a reasonable conjecture that if there are any television sets up in cowboy heaven and any of these […]
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The Matrix Reloaded (2003) Review
The Matrix Reloaded (2003) Directors: The Wachowskis ★★☆☆☆ As a sequel to the brilliant original (The Matrix), The Matrix Reloaded is an entertaining ride if you can simply shut your brain off to the convoluted, jumbled, overblown CGI-infused and mostly confusing, indecipherable plot which relies on the appearance of profundity and depth, but in fact […]
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Thoughts on “On The Quai at Smyrna”
“On The Quai at Smyrna” is an unusual short story by Ernest Hemingway. It is about 1-page in length, but it is hardly a story at all. Instead, it is a stream-of-consciousness collage of images from Smyrna around 1922 in the immediate wake of the Greco-Turkish War. The Greco-Turkish War was a proxy war that […]
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The Plantagenets: Edward I “Longshanks” & “Hammer of the Scots” (1272-1307)
In contrast to his father, few English monarchs had such extensive leadership training and military preparation as Edward I. He was thirty-three years old when Henry III died, and by that point he had experienced the bitter sting of defeat as well as the sweet taste of victory over Simon de Montfort during the “Great […]
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What is the Book of Documents?
The “Shu-Jing,” or the book sometimes translated as “The Book of Documents,” is an obscure compilation of speeches and records of major political conversations dating back to Confucian China. The speeches typically take place between a king/emperor and his ministers. Tradition holds that Confucius, himself, compiled the text. It was revised and re-worked over time […]
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