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Farrell braves 'The New World'

Every film embarks on a hope of discovery because every film begins with the birth of a world -- this is the promise of cinema.

Broadcasting's 'Good' old days

When McCarthyism was a social cancer afflicting America, the country was in short supply of qualified individuals willing to operate on it.

Mourning, not glory, in 'Jarhead'

Deny man food and he will find his own. Deny him water and he will seek it. Deny him religion and he'll discover salvation in his mother's basement. Deny him many things and he will thrive, but deny him purpose and he will drown.

'DOOM' is a don't: Action-packed boredom

If all films were music, then DOOM is percussion by petulant eight-year-olds. Here is a film that is almost all cliché, held together like patchworks of mismatched jigsaw puzzles.

Film as memorial: 'Sophie Scholl'

Sophie Scholl was a student protestor in Germany during the height of World War II. Sophie was arrested for distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets and was subsequently interrogated then executed in early 1943.

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