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4 days ago · Life and Culture. Hope & redemption: The enduring 30-year bond between OSR and Shawshank. Movie lovers expected to flock to Mansfield Aug. 9-11 for 30-year anniversary of popular film’s release. by Carl Hunnell July 2, 2024.
1 day ago · Lena Baker, the only woman executed in Georgia's electric chair, was sentenced to death by an all-white, all-male jury after a trial that lasted just one day. In August 1944 Baker told the court that 67-year-old EB Knight, a man she had been hired to care for, had held her against her will in a grist mill and threatened to shoot her if she tried to leave.
3 days ago · The survival movies based on true stories can offer harrowing examples of people performing extraordinary feats in the most desperate of circumstances, but those films are few and far between. Survival films often depict what really happened to people whose life is told in a story that could be inspirational or end in disaster.
3 days ago · 1. The Shawshank Redemption. Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton. 300 votes. A stirring portrayal of resilience and hope, this classic revolves around two men serving time in the infamous Shawshank Prison who find solace in their friendship and dreams of a better future.
5 days ago · These Christian kids' movies range from animated retellings of biblical tales to imaginative stories that weave religious principles throughout. Curated by movie enthusiasts who understand the importance of nurturing faith and moral lessons through engaging storytelling, this list includes classics like The Prince of Egypt and The Ten ...
2 days ago · From the same studio as 2023’s ‘Sound of Freedom,’ this drama stars Nika King and Demetrius Grosse as a Texas woman and her pastor husband trying to find adoptive homes for over 70 kids—a ...
1 day ago · Plot. The film has young Leonidas, as a rite of passage, hunt and kill this animatronic wolf, instead of an unarmed slave. In 480 B.C., one year after the Battle of Thermopylae, Dilios, a hoplite in the Spartan army, begins his story of Leonidas I from childhood to kingship via the Spartan child-rearing system.
