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What are the best assassin films and why do we love them?

January 12, 2019 Russell Matthews 50 years of the most famous assassin, Apocalypse Now, Bourne series, Collateral, Greatest Assassin films, Grose Pointe Plank, Honesty within a marriage, Human Condition / Morality, James Bond, Justice, Justice and family, Leon: The Professional, Mr & Mrs Smith, No Country for Old Men, redemption, redemption and identity, Relationships, Salvation, The Road to Perdition, The Terminator, What would you do if you went to your class reunion and you found out a classmate was an assassin?

Difference between an agent, a hitman and an assassin Hitman – a hired killer, especially a professional killer from the

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Responding to Jared C Wilson’s “Why Christian Movies Are So Terrible”

January 9, 2019January 9, 2019 Stephen McAlpine #stephenmcalpine, Jared C Wilson, mainstream evangelicalism, Martin Scorsese, Propaganda, sexular age, Silence, Stephen McAlpine, stephenmcalpine.com, The Apostle (starring and directed by Robert Duvall), The Last temptation of Christ, Why Christian Movies Are So Terrible, Zootopia (2016)

Author: Stephen McAlpine – Originally published on 8 January (stephenmcalpine.com) Jared C Wilson gets five out of five stars for

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Middle Aged (Spider)Men in Lycra

December 20, 2018December 20, 2018 Russell Matthews #marvel, #spiderman, #spiderverse, Middle Aged Men in Lycra, Spiderman: Into the Spider-verse, Stephen McAlpine

Stephen McAlpine / stephenmcalpine.com Saw the new Spiderman movie last night.  Loved it.  What a way to freshen up what was

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Reel Dialogue’s Christmas Film Advent

December 2, 2018December 2, 2018 Russell Matthews 0 Comments Best Christmas films, Elf, Home Alone, IS Die Hard a Christmas Film?, It's a Wonderful Life, The Grinch, The Grinch that Stole Christmas, The Nativity Story

A Christmas Film Advent  How to celebrate the Christmas season through film   We received a great request from a faithful

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Boy Erased – A commentary on the human condition and parenting

October 30, 2018October 30, 2018 Russell Matthews #boyerased, #russellingrevs, Boy Erased, Garrard Conley, Joel Edgerton, Lucas Hedges, Medical practices, Nicole Kidman, Parenting, Parenting in the modern era, Rape, Russell Crowe, The Gift

‘I don’t want to pretend anymore.’ Joel Edgerton is an Australian-born actor who has become a mainstay in Hollywood and

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How the narrative of The Martian helps us to connect with God’s story

October 21, 2018October 21, 2018 Russell Matthews #jesus, Any Weir, Drew Goddard, God's story, Jean-François Lyotard, Mankind's story, Mark Watney, Matt Damon, Meta-story, Micro-story, Rescue mission, Ridley Scott, The Martian, The soccer team in Thailand

Micro-story’s connection with the meta-story The recent story of the boy’s soccer team that was rescued from the cave in

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Reel Dialogue Director’s Cut – Guy Ritchie

October 10, 2018October 12, 2018 Russell Matthews #disney, Aladdin, Guy Ritchie, Lock, Madonna, RocknRolla, Sherlock Holmes, Snatch, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

For those less than familiar with those behind the camera, Guy Ritchie is a director associated with some of the

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Reel Dialogue’s family movie classics

October 6, 2018October 9, 2018 Russell Matthews 101 Dalmatians (1961), A Little Princess (1995), Annie (1982), Babe (1995), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Cinderella, Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010), Discuss Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009), Dumbo (1941), Enchanted (2007), ET: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Fantastic Mr Fox (2009), Finding Nemo (2003), Frozen (2013), How to Train Your Dragon (2010), Inside Out (2015), Jumanji (1995), Mary Poppins (1964), Nanny McPhee (2005), Night at the Museum (2006), Old Yeller (1957), Oliver! (1968), Paddington (2014), Pollyanna (1960), Shrek (2001), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), The Iron Giant (1999), The Jungle Book (1967), The LEGO Movie (2014), The Lion King (1994), The Little Mermaid (1989), The Princess Bride (1987), The Secret Garden (1993), Toy Story (1995), Up (2009), Zootopia (2016)

We recently put together a list of classic films for people to consider for viewing and expanding their cinematic life

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Movie classics to watch or own

October 5, 2018 Russell Matthews (A nod to Ben McEachen), 12 Angry Men, Alien (The first one), Ben Hur, Blade Runner, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Citizen Kane, Dr Strangelove, Gone with the Wind, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Psycho, Seven Samurai, star wars, The Conversation, The French Connection, The Godfather, The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, To Kill a Mockingbird

‘For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.’ Alfred Hitchcock For those in the

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The line: The struggle picking a film in October

October 4, 2018October 4, 2018 Russell Matthews #horror, #reeldialogue, #russellingrevs, Brett McCracken's, Gladiator, Gray Matters, Nudity, Passion of the Christ, Saving Privvate Ryan, sex, the line

This time of year is a struggle for me as a film critic. With Halloween around the corner, the primary

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