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Shusaku’s Silence

Some readers may be curious about the forthcoming Martin Scorsese film, Silence. The story follows two Jesuit priests (played by Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver) who leave Portugal in order to discover the fate of Father Ferreira (Liam Neeson), a…

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Transcendence

Transcendence is the latest in a long line of films which peer into the shadows of the technological future and try to prefigure the darkness and/or wonderment that could wait for us there. It stars Johnny Depp as Will Caster,…

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Gravity

Spoiler alert: This review details key scenes in the movie and its ending. He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names. (Ps. 147:4) Movies like Gravity gave birth to terms like groundbreaking. After…

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Zero Dark Thirty

“A near-perfect movie,” said Time magazine’s Richard Corliss in reference to Kathryne Bigelow’s film, The Hurt Locker,”  a tense military drama following an elite Army bomb squad unit which turned out to be one of the most critically acclaimed films…