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Pat Tillman, an all-star defensive back with the Arizona Cardinals, walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contract to enlist in the Army special forces with his younger brother just months after 9/11. Two years later, the celebrity [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
If Mel Gibson is obsessed with suffering as some sort of Dark Ages redemptive penance, than Nicholas Sparks, on whose book the film Dear John is based, has a fetish for personal calamity, for creating sentimental, overly [...]

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This review first appeared in The Colorado Springs Gazette. To read this review at its original source, click here.
The Messenger is the movie Brothers wanted to be, a homefront war drama that simultaneously shows the cost of war as well as the inherent strength of those fighting it. A tender and moving story about the [...]

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“More of this story is true than you would believe,” we are told in the opening moments of The Men Who Stare at Goats. It’s a fair warning and one that bears repeating the further the film slides into incredulity and absurdity. Sometimes truth is indeed stranger than fiction. No doubt intended as the comic [...]

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