A person--doesn’t have to be a friend of yours necessarily, just someone you know or have heard of--is diagnosed with cancer. This person decides not to undergo any type of chemotherapy treatment or ingest any available medicines—because he equates treatment to “cheating.” Would you not think this an asinine response?
An outsider, of “carnival folk” in a rustic, small town in the backwoods of Tennessee, Lester Ballard lives alone, fighting for his survival.
Kenneth R. Morefield reviews Don Jon at 1More Film Blog.
Any good political pollster can tell you that the answer is influenced by the way the question is framed. Film critics usually think the question they are answering is, "Was it any good?" The question I get asked the most, however, is, "Did you like it?"
The director himself opined that he thought the second half of the film was about "the drift towards moral intuition [and ...] the stuff that makes us human."
Ungerer ties his bold proclamation that "children should be traumatized" to his artistic vision that pushed children's fiction beyond the benign and banal.
One of the more striking contrasts between Rocky's mission and IHOP's is that his orphans have names.
In 1953, the Pulitzer Prize for was awarded to the editor of the Tabor City Tribune.
Abortion is not an abstraction.
It is hard to think of a proclamation of Jesus that is harder to understand--or believe--than "blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." I bring this up in the context of considering Remote Area Medical, Jeff Reichert's and Farihah Zaman's documentary because (at least in the first half) the directors focus on the recipients rather than the dispensers of free medical care. They are consistently, if not universally, a hard bunch to love:
