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On Earth as it is in Heaven, The Falls & Gabriel’s Oboe (The Mission,1986) – Ennio Morricone

Our life, our life, our life, our life, so they cry.Our life, our life, our life, our life, they cry like this.Punishment, punishment, our strength, our punishment, cry out like thisPunishment Punishment Our Strength Our Punishment So So So So

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The Crow (1994) – Alex Proyas (Friday’s Finest)

Last week we featured the biopic of martial arts legend Bruce Lee in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story and today we pay homage to his son Brandon Lee who appeared in his final film – The Crow. Dragon was less

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Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993) – Rob Cohen (Friday’s Finest)

My first encounter with the phenomenon that is Bruce Lee was when I was in my early-teens visiting my cousins in Sydney back in the mid-eighties. My older cousin Anthony was a Rugby league prospect for the North Sydney Bears

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History of Violence (2005) – David Cronenberg (Friday’s Finest)

In the first 15 minutes, History of Violence presents the scenes and events of any town USA: a small-town diner, a baseball game, and a sneering, varsity high school bully. It’s a facade of sorts; the calm before the storm.

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Sound of Freedom (2023) – Alejandro Monteverde (Friday’s Finest)

Tim Ballard: God’s children are not for sale. Last week I went into this movie – Sound of Freedom with a lot of trepidation because of its disturbing subject matter – Child trafficking and sexual abuse. The film is mostly

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All The President’s Men (1976) – Alan J. Pakula (Friday’s Finest)

Ben Bradlee: You know the results of the latest Gallup Poll? Half the country never even heard of the word Watergate. Nobody gives a shit. You guys are probably pretty tired, right? Well, you should be. Go on home, get

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25/9 – 1/10/23 Cake, Excess Deaths, A.I. Hitchens (on J.B Peterson) & The Goonies

Welcome to Monday’s News on the March – The week that was in my digital world. This Poem is about CakePoem at Theodora Goss: Poems If I didn’t carewhat the world thought,I would eat all the cake. What cake? I

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The Mission (1986) – Roland Joffé (Friday’s Finest)

My father had a penchant for classic cinema and as a boy he would introduce me to movies that mostly went over my head and coerced me to sleep (which perhaps was ‘his mission’ all along). Citizen Kane, Casablanca, All

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Little Miss Sunshine (2006) – Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Friday’s Finest)

What I admire most about Little Miss Sunshine is it pulls no punches. It flies in the face of modern day – ’emotionally correct’ Hollywood filmmaking. In some sense, the whole movie is a reflection of 7-year-old Olive Hoover’s outlook

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Reality Bites (1994) – Ben Stiller (Friday’s Finest)

Reality Bites captured the zeitgeist of the early 1990s grunge scene among young adults. I was about their age when this movie came out. I could relate to the philosophical musings and desire to make a difference but not knowing how to

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