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This suspicion that we have exorcised the fear of the law from the criminal mind with soft policing and a “caring” judiciary is often reinforced by the actions of the law when an ordinary citizen seeks to defend his or her property or physical safety when confronted by lawbreakers – hence the frisson of delight most of us have in movie scenes where the tables are turned on some criminal who expects his victim to be terrified into meek obedience when faced with the threat of violence by knife….

Eastman Kodak Co., a vanguard name in photography, finally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Thursday following falling sales and rising speculation about its ability to stay afloat. The long-anticipated announcement came after weeks of early eulogies about the faded glory of the former trailblazer, once an American mainstay with products such Kodachrome photographic film and Instamatic cameras. But printed photos seem well on their way to becoming a hipster curiosity as digital technologies -- which originated at Kodak decades ago -- now dominate on smartphones and, to a shrinking degree, cameras. The company, which was also exposed to heavy foreign...

JOHN LOVES MARY Friday at 7:30 am on January 20, 2012 1949 Comedy/Romance Starring Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, and Jack Carson A GI's fiancee resents his marriage of convenience to a buddy's English girlfriend. THE HASTY HEART Friday at 1:15 pm on January 20, 2012 1949 Drama Starring Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, and Richard Todd A patient and a nurse comfort a dying Scottish soldier in World War II Burma. THE ANGELS WASH THEIR FACES Saturday at 6:00 am on January 21, 2012 1939 Drama Starring Ronald Reagan, Ann Sheridan, and the Dead End Kids A street gang helps the...

Shooting the Life And Fate movie took place at a tank range Alabino. Welcome to the movie set with a lot of tanks, snow and other interesting things.

  Iron Lady, Feeble Film David C. Stolinsky Jan. 12, 2012 http://cloud.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/meryl_streep.jpg The current film “The Iron Lady” purports to give an account of the life and career of Margaret Thatcher, former prime minister of the United Kingdom. In this the film fails. It does provide a superb vehicle for Meryl Streep to display her well-known acting talent. But instead of an overview of Lady Thatcher’s career and accomplishments, it portrays a version so slanted that one might suspect it was written and produced by leftists who were no admirers of Thatcher. Oh wait, it was. We are shocked...

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Kiefer Sutherland’s new Fox drama, “Touch” is on its way later this month, but it won’t keep the actor from making the “24” movie, set to begin production shortly. “The status on the movie — hopefully we will be shooting at the end of April, beginning of May,” the actor said on Sunday the FOX portion of the Television Critics Association Winter Session in Pasadena. (Snip) “The commitment to a television show, in the case of ’24,’ was eight years, so if you’re gonna do something potentially for another eight years, you want it to be something that you can

HBO recently announced it was cancelling the show “Hung” after three seasons. The show was filmed in Detroit and the surrounding area. The Michigan Film Office estimates the production company spent $7 million from 2010 to 2011 and received $2.7 million back from the film subsidy, comprising about 38 percent of expenditures. The Michigan Film Office receives the film subsidy money from taxpayers. Michael LaFaive, director of the Morey Fiscal Policy Initiative for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, says that the $2.7 million is actually an opportunity cost sunk in expensive subsidies, such as those allocated for "Hung"'s production...

You might be walking about humming Ennio Morricone’s songs and you won’t even know it. In his long and prolific musical career, he has written more soundtracks for cowboy movies than one would care to remember. He is the man we have to thank for the actual term “spaghetti western.” He is the guy who helped turn Clint Eastwood into a household name. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, A Fist Full of Dollars, and For a Few Dollars More are some of the most popular movies that featured Morricone’s soundracks.

Every year the Library of Congress selects 25 films of “enduring significance to American culture” for preservation as part of the National Film Registry. 550 films have joined the Registry since it was first started by congressional order in 1989, and yesterday 25 new titles were added to their prestigious ranks. They are, in alphabetical order: “Allures” (1961), directed by Jordan Belson “Bambi” (1942), directed by David D. Hand “The Big Heat” (1953), directed by Fritz Lang “A Computer Animated Hand” (1973), directed by Ed Catmull “Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment” (1963), directed by Robert Drew “The Cry of the...