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Django Unchained is definitely one of the best films of 2012. It may not get everything it deserves at the Oscars, but thankfully people are seeing it anyway and it's getting plenty of love at the box office. Tarantino is Back Quentin Tarantino is back in his usual style with

Leo Tolstoy's novel, Anna Karenina, is task enough just to read, let alone adapt for film. A tale set in Imperial Russia following several couples and their relationships as they change over time, Tolstoy traverses the many different types of love and their effects on the soul. And I'm happy

[caption id="attachment_4370" align="alignnone" width="580"] Step out your front door and find an adventure![/caption] The biggest holiday movie this year was definitely The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Between headlines of Peter Jackson returning to Middle Earth to tackle Tolkien's other major work, having it span three

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Peter Jackson has done an incredible job of keeping fans up to date on the latest work on The Hobbit trilogy with this collection of Production video blogs. The latest one came out this weekend, so I thought I'd put them all here for you to enjoy! Ones of note

(This is part of my journey through Disney Animation [https://benjaminbrandt.com/disney-animation/]. For more thoughts on other films, check out my series! [https://benjaminbrandt.com/disney-animation/]) The second installment in Disney's "Good Neighbor Policy" films, The Three Caballeros [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0012RLXBU?ie=UTF8&camp=213733&

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This is an amazing Tumblr project [http://philmfotos.tumblr.com/] by Christopher Moloney [https://twitter.com/Moloknee] taking stills from famous films, finding the place they were filmed at, and taking a picture of the photo meshed with its original surroundings. It's amazing how little has changed over the years

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[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003U51F3S/?tag=benbrafilwebd-20] Hurley is a man who's always looking for hope. Not much can get him down, he's usually a happy fellow looking for a good time and making sure everyone else has fun too. But even Hurley has rough days. With Charlie

[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003U4ZS8W/?tag=benbrafilwebd-20] This episode [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003U4ZS8W/?tag=benbrafilwebd-20] , there is a sheriff in town, Isabel. Juliet has broken the law, so she has come to bring judgment. Alex mentions the rules are "an eye for an eye," but

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[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003U51G7S/?tag=benbrafilwebd-20] Once again we face Kate's incessant need to run, both from hard situations and those she loves. In this episode [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003U51G7S/?tag=benbrafilwebd-20] we see that often she runs when she has to face part