The fact of the United States being a relatively young country may well have something to do with the contiguous fact that the country is often a bit slow to recognize and preserve key artifacts from its history such as buildings, documents,artworks and other things which provide of record of how and why the country […]
Author: Woodson Hughes
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16 Great Movies about Mother-Daughter Relationships
Mother (noun): 1 a female parent; 2 one’s female parent; 3 a mother-in-law, step mother, or adoptive mother; 4. A woman exercising control, influence, or authority like that of a mother. All of those words are true but somehow miss the fuller definition. A mother is the bearer of life, the nurturer of that life, […]
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The 25 Best Fantasy Films For Adults
In her classic supernatural novel The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson noted that no creature can exist under conditions of complete realism and that even grasshoppers are supposed to dream. If grasshoppers need to dream, then why also not adult human beings? What would life be without dreams and what are fantasies but waking […]
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The 25 Best Transformative Book-to-Movie Adaptations
Question one: What do the films, Citizen Kane, Notorious, Chinatown, and Nashville have in common? Answer: They are all great films by great directors which all began as original scripts. Question two: What do the films, The Magnificent Ambersons, Rear Window, Rosemary’s Baby and M*A*S*H all have in common? Answer: They are all great films […]
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The 25 Best Movies About Father-Son Relationships
From Merriam-Webster.com: Father: 1a : a man who has begotten a child; 2a : one related to another in a way suggesting that of father to child; 3a: a person who was in someone’s family in past times. All of those words are true enough but, somehow, they don’t quite say it all. The father […]
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The 25 Best Movies Adapted from The Works of Shakespeare
“All the world a stage”, or so goes the line from As You Like It, a notable quote from a famous play by the Bard of Avon, a.k.a William Shakespeare, the world’s greatest playwright and sonnet author. Though many may not have actually read the great author’s works or gone to many, if any, of […]