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The story of the Great Emancipator began on February 12, 1809 when Abraham Lincoln was born to Thomas and Nancy Hanks in a one-room log cabin in Kentucky. A few years later, the Lincolns left Kentucky, crossed the Ohio River to non-slave territory in Indiana and set ...

In 1970, Dock Ellis, a pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates, threw a no-hitter. Years later, he would claim that during the game, he was tripping on LSD...

The child has no parents, no siblings, no relatives to speak of. He’s 11 years old, and what happened before the movie starts is...

None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before Me...

He’s just so damn handsome. Smooth skin, full head of shiny black hair, snappy dinner clothes, thin as a rail — what girl wouldn’t...

GI Joe: Retaliation’s script is so horrible, it should be in MoMA. Just like some people can’t stop staring at the world’s ugliest dog, this screenplay is fascinatingly hideous blather. It’s entirely possible the whole script was verbs: “shoot, explode, stab, scream...

Children’s movies are fascinating triumphs of simplicity and clarity. Often these movies render complex issues so succinctly that they become masterworks full of sophisticated...

Master of the Flying Guillotine is Taiwanese director Jimmy Wang Yu’s 1976 sequel to One Armed Boxer. Yu not only directed and wrote the film but starred as the main character, a martial arts master who is stalked by a blind assassin seeking revenge...

John Ford is cinema. Born in Portland, Maine, in 1894 — just as motion picture cameras were first being put to good use —...

William Faulkner wisely wrote, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” No matter how hard we try to suppress and forget, the...

I love lists. Lists bring order to my day: what to do, what to watch, what to read, what to listen to. Lists provide...

The sages call it by many names: yagé, ambiwaska, aioasca, but most know it as ayahuasca: a hallucinogenic brew drunk during a spiritual ceremony....