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‘Inglorious’ Movie Making– WWII Revamped
By
Ben Witherington
I grew up watching war movies. The Longest Day (should have been called the Longest Movie), PT 109, All Quiet on the Western Front, and then there were the Vietnam war classics, Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, and so many more, not to mention Saving Private Ryan, Schindler’s List, The Reader and so on. It…
Dawn Treading Hobbits
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Ben Witherington
And now the inside story about my trip to New Zealand (aka Middle Earth) can be told. I actually went down there to hire a couple of under cover Hobbits. Of course Hobbits are so small they can easily go under cover. Their mission on which I sent them? To gather any and all information…
500 Days of Summer– And Then Some
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Ben Witherington
The course of young love is ever treacherous. There are break ups and make ups, and all too often when young people say they are in love, in actuality what they really are is ‘in heat’, and its not the same thing. But this award winning movie is the rarity in the genre of ‘young…
A Novel Approach to the Reformers– C.J. Sansom’s Mysteries
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Ben Witherington
I was hanging out in the airport in Sydney Down Under, waiting for the flight to Auckland, and browsing through the airport bookstore, when I found the novels of C.J. Sansom, a man after my own heart. He has a PhD in history from Birmingham, worked as a lawyer for a while, but gave it…
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