Tagged: Bible

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1980s / Action / Adventure / War

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Before I would develop an obsession with Hitchcock’s masterpiece, Vertigo, Raiders of the Lost Ark was my all-time favorite movie.  Perhaps as testament to the film’s greatness, it still ranks as a close second.  When someone...

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2010s / Drama

The Birth of a Nation (2016)

Nate Parker’s Birth of a Nation is based on real-life events that occurred in Virginia in 1831, where a slave named Nat Turner (Parker, Beyond the Lights) would lead a revolt against the white slave-owners. The film showcases...

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2000s / Adventure / Comedy

Year One (2009)

It’s not easy to imagine Harold Ramis, the writer-director of Caddyshack and Groundhog Day, turning in a film this bad.  I suppose one could see the diminishing returns in his last two films, The Ice Harvest and Analyze That, but Year...

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1990s / Adventure / Animation

The Prince of Egypt (1998)

The biblical story of Moses (Kilmer, The Island of Dr. Moreau) in Exodus, where the Egyptians keep Hebrews as slaves. Fearing her baby boy will be taken and drowned by the Egyptians, a young Hebrew mother...