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Behind the Silver Screen: October 2014
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Friday, October 31, 2014. PG (for intense thematic elements). Bradford Dillman (Francis Bernadone), Delores Hart (Clare), Stuart Whitman (Count Paolo of Vandria), Finlay Currie (Pope Innocent III), Mervyn Johns (Brother Juniper), Russell Napier (Brother Elias), Cecil Kellaway (Cardinal Hugolino), John Welsh (Canon Cattanei). Also, who can help but love the child-like innocence of Brother Juniper, played by Mervyn Johns? Another one of my favorite parts is when Francis and his brothers walk to Rome to ask...
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Longbows and Rosary Beads: Scour the Horse Anew: An Analysis of “The Ballad of the White Horse”
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Sunday, July 19, 2015. Scour the Horse Anew: An Analysis of “The Ballad of the White Horse”. For years, friends urged me to read The Ballad of the White Horse. By GK Chesterton, which I proceeded to put on the back burner for far too long. It was the poem said to have been a major inspiration for J.R.R. Tolkien when he wrote The Lord of the Rings. But in spite of misgivings about a Chestertonian plunge, when I found myself with nothing better to do but finally read. The Ballad of the White Horse. Chester...
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Behind the Silver Screen: Waterloo
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Monday, June 29, 2015. PG (for mild language and battle sequences). Christopher Plummer stars as the dour yet dogged Duke of Wellington who must pit his outnumbered troops against the forces of Napoleon Bonaparte, who recently escaped from captivity on the Isle of Elba. The two armies converge on a rain-drenched Belgian field near. Determines to hold his position until Prussian troops arrive to defeat the French Emperor once and for all. In spite of this, Christopher Plummer makes up for the early foolin...
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Behind the Silver Screen: Noah
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Monday, May 25, 2015. PG-13 (for intense thematic elements and some sexual innuendos). Russell Crowe (Noah), Jennifer Connolly (Naameh), Ray Winstone (Tubal-Caine), Anthony Hopkins (Methuselah), Emma Watson (Ila), Logan Lerman (Ham), Douglas Booth (Shem), Leo McHugh Carroll (Japheth), Madison Davenport (Na’el), Nick Nolte (Samyaza), Mark Margolis (Magog), Adam Griffith (Adam), Ariane Rinehart (Eve). Who apparently used to be angels called “Watchers”, until they tried to help Man after the fal...And after...
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Longbows and Rosary Beads: April 2015
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Thursday, April 23, 2015. King Richard III and Sir Thomas More. Are both famous Englishmen who have been in the news as of late, and are worthy interlocking subjects to discuss on St. George’s Day! Anyway, our tour-d-force must begin with the ever-controversial chap from the wild and wooly War of the Roses: King Richard III (1452-1485)! So…what’s the back-story on Sovereign liege Richard, the third of that name? It’s an irony that in the same year that Richard III’s reputation gets a boost, h...Is an his...
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Longbows and Rosary Beads: July 2014
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014. There are loads of things. Plus, over at "Behind the Silver Screen", I have been eager to review some films I watched in the last few months ( Tangled. The Phantom of the Opera. The Original Star Wars Trilogy. Etc), and with regards to "Union Jack Chat", I have about six unfinished interviews with British Unionists (who are being real peaches to help out with this project, since I am pretty much an unknown and a foreigner to boot! Thanks for always humoring my gushes! Authored by ...
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Behind the Silver Screen: August 2014
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Sunday, August 31, 2014. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. PG-13 (for mild language and battle sequences). Russell Crowe (Capt. Jack Aubrey), Paul Bettany (Stephen Maturin), Max Pirkis (Midshipman Blackney), Lee Ingleby (Midshipman Hollom), Max Benitz (Midshipman Calamy), James D’Arcy (First Lt. Thomas Pullings), Billy Boyd (Barret Bonden, Captain’s Coxswain), Joseph Morgan (William Warley, Captain of Mizzentop). Who is ordered to locate the French privateer ship,. In the process, enemy am...
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Longbows and Rosary Beads: Finding Romance in Daily Life....
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Monday, July 20, 2015. Finding Romance in Daily Life. Is made just a little easier when reading the following poems that reveal the magic in the mundane. The first one is by G.K. Chesterton; the second from Dorothy Sayers. THE HUNTING OF THE DRAGON. When we went hunting the Dragon. In the days when we were young,. We tossed the bright world over our shoulder. As bugle and baldrick slung;. Never was world so wild and fair. As what went by on the wind,. Never such fields of paradise. Wings upon pot and pan,.
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Longbows and Rosary Beads: May 2015
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Thursday, May 28, 2015. Is a name that is inextricably linked with the British surrender at Yorktown and the end of the American Revolution in the popular imagination. Few think of him as more than a stand-in stereotypical upper-crust British big-wig who pretentiously overplayed his hand and lost. In the film The Patriot. He was not a self-obsessed fop, but rather shared the majority of the hardships along with him men. When the regular baggage and much of the supplies had to be burned in order to sp...
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Longbows and Rosary Beads: March 2015
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015. The Feast of the Annunciation. Of Lord God servant and creator created. Too much a dark thing it appears. Seeing God so humbled. Thinking of your greatness oh my Lord. The heart lowers itself in the body I shake so. Seeing you mortal man being God. Enclosed in the womb of a poor young girl. My faith turns to nothing. Thinking of your greatness so removed. If not it appears that ease opposed. Crying out God, God, y ou are crazy. And then with enflamed desire. From two of Ireland...
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