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Dolphin Tale -- Review

September 22nd, 201107:18 PM ET

By Marc Newman

If you are like me, movies that star children and animals are not normally on your "must see" list. Be sure to make an exception for Dolphin Tale – an inspiring, empowering story about damaged lives and how love, family, and a very inventive prosthetics designer bring healing and hope. Sawyer Nelson (Nathan Gamble) is a boy who is experienc...
Dolphin Tale and Rethinking Dominion

September 22nd, 201106:11 PM ET

By Marc Newman

There are all kind of theories floating around about what life must have been like between Adam and Eve and the animals in the pre-fall Garden of Eden, but I wonder if it looked quite a bit like what I saw at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium last week. This impressive facility is the real-world setting of the film Dolphin Tale, which opens on Friday,...
Cinema in Focus - CONTAGION - 2 Stars

September 21st, 201104:29 AM ET

By Denny Wayman

When the Bubonic Plague of the 14th century killed an estimated 30% to 60% of the population of Europe, it implanted a traumatic memory within us. This collective fear of epidemics in general and the plague in particular is further mined as the plague's symptoms of high fever, chills, malaise and seizure are now given to the fictional virus created...
Cinema in Focs - ONE YEAR-ONE WEEK - 3 Stars

September 19th, 201112:12 PM ET

By Denny Wayman

ONE YEAR/ONE WEEK 3 Stars – Wholesome Tom Kleine's experience as a special education teacher is reflected in his two films serially combined in "One Year/One Week." Released on DVD, the moralistic films sensitively present both the struggles and the opportunities teachers have to change lives. Uneven in both acting and cinematic skill, the film...
Cinema in Focus - WARRIOR - 3 Stars

September 15th, 201102:50 AM ET

By Denny Wayman

WARRIOR 3 Stars – Powerful What makes "Warrior" a powerful film is its depth of storytelling. Although the basic plot of this fight film is to determine the toughest man on the planet, Gavin O'Connor both writes and directs a film that is far more nuanced. The trailer reveals that the final "War on the Shore" is between two brothers, and the fa...
Cinema in Focus - APOLLO 18 - 2 Stars

September 05th, 201104:19 PM ET

By Denny Wayman

APOLLO 18 2 Stars – Weak Throughout the last half of the 20th century, nothing captured the attention of the world more than man's first step onto the moon. What seemed unimaginable in 1961 when President Kennedy set the goal of landing on the moon within a decade became reality when the world held its breath on July 31, 1969 as astronaut Neil ...
Cinema in Focus - THE DEBT - 3 Stars

September 05th, 201104:16 PM ET

By Denny Wayman

Sixty-five years after the end of World War II, stories of Nazi atrocities still provide grist for cinematic dramas, mysteries and even comedies. So it is with "The Debt" which takes us back four decades to the search and capture of Dieter Vogel (Jesper Christensen), a fictionalized character known as the "Surgeon of Birkenau", for his brutal exper...

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