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Do you believe (in dragons)?
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pveugelaers
The story goes like this. In Pete’s Dragon (2016, out now on DVD) a boy named Pete and his mother and father have an accident on the way to a forest park. The boy survives and a dragon rescues him. Pete calls the dragon Elliot, a name taken from a picture book. For the next…
Braininess
By
pveugelaers
I watched a terrible movie about stupid humans; but casting aspersions on the braininess of human beings, which must include the audience, is never going to work. Unless the audience agrees that they are stupid. I do see the sense in making a bad spoof film about human braininess. If humans are dumb, this move…
Redemption
By
pveugelaers
One had been so very lost in life. Even the lowest one can go. No direction, no life, guilt, sorrow, despair. One wallowed in inaction and hopelessness in a cloud of depression. As unlikely as it may have seemed a solution came clear. The solution seemed incomprehensible, but a lost life is reclaimed and then…
Sabbath at the Oympics
By
pveugelaers
A great theme: an Olympic film about the Sabbath There are good movies about the Olympics that the 2016 Rio Olympics brings to mind. Chariots of Fire (1981, Britain) is one of those good films, based on a true story. Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams are British runners competing in the 1924 Paris Olympiad. Liddell has…
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