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Life, the Universe and Everything
Beauty for Truth’s Sake: On the Re-enchantment of Education By: Stratford Caldecott (Brazos Press, ...

Locke
Directed by: Steven Knight
Sometimes a movie’s makers take the chance to do something innovative in the ...

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
By: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, trans. Thomas P. Whitney & Harry Willets (New York: Harper Perennial Modern ...

Birdman
Directed by: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Alejandro Iñárritu does not make movies about ...

A Separation
Directed by: Asghar Farhadi
The Islamic Republic of Iran may be as distant politically from the United ...

East of Eden
By: John Steinbeck (New York: Viking Press, 1952)
Summary:
Steinbeck, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the ...

Never Let Me Go
Directed by: Mark Romanek
In a year in which Scarlett Johansson has made no less than three movies where ...

Room
Directed by: Lenny Abrahamson
The American movie industry is full swing into awards season, and one of the ...

Tomorrowland
Directed by: Brad Bird
Sadly, Tomorrowland was as disappointing as most critics said it was. Many things ...

The Social Network
Directed by: David Fincher
“The Social Network”, written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by David Fincher, is ...

The Iliad
By: Homer trans. Robert Fagles (London: Penguin Classics, 1998)
Summary:
Homer, the ancient blind bard, ...

The Shawshank Redemption
Columbia Pictures, 1994; Directed by Frank Darabont; Starring Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, & Bob Gunton; ...