Aside from the obvious, universally known classics, now and then a particular book or movie qualifies as a necessary work, something not only entertaining but instructive, a useful addition to the culture’s knowledge of the world and itself. Although her “Seabiscuit,” which suggested that a racehorse led America out of the Great Depression, succeeded both […]
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Film Review: “Maleficent”
When it comes to all-time great movie entrances, you can’t do much better than the first appearance of the sorceress Maleficent in Walt Disney’s 1959 animated masterpiece, “Sleeping Beauty.” With a bolt of lightning, the witch appears, crashing a royal christening to deliver a promise of certain death to an infant, seemingly because the king […]
