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73        <!-- Blog title -->Flicks To Hold You Over Introduction...</h1>
74      <p >Years ago when I started this column on The Indy Experience, it was with a goal. I often went to the video store looking for movies to hold me over until Indy4. It's a tall order to fill, where else can you find a movie as perfect as the Original &quot;Raiders Of The Lost Ark?&quot; Where can you find adventure, political intrigue, the recovery of lost artifacts and tongue and cheek humor laced with romance? Why can't someone review movies from the perspective of a fan of that Tour-De-Force? Hence the title of the article and the aim, reviewing movies that should hold you over until Indy 4...</p>
75      <p>Since starting The Fedora Chronicles, the goal has changed slightly and expanded a bit: Where can you find movies that capture the spirit of adventure and the style of a by-gone era. Most movies I review have what I'm looking for, others don't and I try to explain why.</p>
76      <p>The title of this column remains the same, regardless of what movies come and go... because we're always looking for something to hold you over... either to hold you over through the night or while waiting for your next adventure to begin.</p>
77      <p>~Eric 'Renderking' Fisk</p>
78      
79      <h2 >Most Recient Flicks</h2>
80      <p ><a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/2018/Overlord-2018.html" target="_blank">Overlord (2018)</a> | November 2018<br>
81      In the category of Nazi Zombie films, “Overlord” is easily the “Citizen Kane” of them all!      </p>
82      <p ><a href="2018/the-post.html">&quot;The Post&quot;</a> | January 28th, 2018<br>
83      Eric Renderking Fisk reviews that a movie actually spoke to him as a publisher of a website. </p>
84      <p ><a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/2018/background-to-danger.html">&ldquo;Background To Danger&rdquo;</a> | January 10th, 2018 <br>
85      Eric Renderking Fisk reviews the George Raft movie from 1943 about spies in Southern Europe and a devious Nazi plot. He also discusses every writer's remorse: the work that never was.      </p>
86      <p><a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/2017/blade-runner-2049.html">&quot;Blade Runner 2049&quot;</a> | October 9th, 2017 <br>
87        Eric Renderking Fisk writes: &quot;&ldquo;Blade Runner 2049&rdquo; is the kind of Cyberpunk movie David Lean might have made about the future if he had access to our modern tools and pool of talent. It&rsquo;s &ldquo;Doctor Zhivago&rdquo; with androids, holograms and flying cars. But in a good way!&quot;</p>
88      <p><a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/2016/01_03_2017_deepwater-horizon.html" target="_self">Deepwater Horizon,</a> reviewed by Eric Renderking Fisk | January 3rd, 2017 </p>
89      <p><a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/2016/the-road.html" target="_top">The Road (2009)</a>: Eric 'Renderking' Fisk reviews one of the most hauntingly beautiful movies about the end of the world... </p>
90      <p>Be sure to also checkout our review of <a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/reviews/2016/stranger_things_season-01.html" target="_top">&quot;Stranger Things...&quot;</a></p>
91      <p> Flicks To Hold You Over review: <a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/2016/amanda-knox-netflix.html">Amanda Knox on Netflix</a></p>
92      <p><a href="2016/soaked_in_bleach.html" target="_top">&quot;Soaked In Bleach: The Fedora Chronicles Flicks</a><br>
93        Eric Renderking Fisk reviews what could be one of the best Film Noir styled documentaries ever made.      </p>
94      <p><a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/2016/star_wars_1977.html">Star Wars (1977) - Flicks To Hold You Over</a> review by Eric Renderking Fisk: Looking back at The Original Star Wars, not as Space Fantasy, but as one of the most important anti-establishment films of the Mid-70's and an allegory about the times it was made.</p>
95      <h2 >Period Films</h2>
96      <p ><a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/2009/atonement.html">&quot;Atonement,&quot;</a> - a period 
97        film that shouldn&#39;t work, but does. It lifts us up, breaks our hearts and 
98        asks us to rethink what the truth really means. It also re-examines what 
99        hardships The Greatest Generation endured and what they gave up... </p>
100      <p ><a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/2009/03_28_changeling.html"> &quot;Cangeling&quot; - </a>As much as I respect and admire Christine Collins 
101        and her struggle to bring her son back home as well as those who 
102        helped her fight to keep her dignity and regain her civil rights, 
103        all the while understanding her pain and suffering and the cruelty 
104        she endured in her greatest moment of need, I'm debating on whether 
105        or not this film really needed to be made... <a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/2009/03_28_changeling.html"> Read More...</a></p>
106      <p > <a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/2009/resistance_01_25.html"> Resistance</a> Published February 18, 2009 - &quot;The costumes, 
107        set design and cinematography all make this movie feel some how 
108        &quot;real,&quot; like any good period film we feel transported back into that 
109        era. It's not a romanticized version of World War II with-in the 
110        civilian resistance who wear perfect hero costumes and over-the-top 
111        sets. [This is best described as the 'Jello' of World War II 
112        intrigue movies. <a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/2009/resistance_01_25.html"> More</a>...</p>
113      <p > <a target="popup" onclick="window.open('','popup','width=740,height=600,scrollbars=yes')" href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/kingdom_of_the_crystal_skull.html"> Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull.</a> &quot;Well, here 
114        it is... the movie many of us have waited a long time for... the third 
115        and maybe last sequel of &quot;Raiders Of The Lost Ark.&quot; The actual movie 
116        that the title of this column here and on The Indy Experience has referred 
117        to: &quot;The Flicks To Hold You Over...&quot; all the others reviews were for 
118        movies to &quot;hold you over&quot; until this&nbsp; was finally made and released. 
119        It&#39;s a surreal feeling, I&#39;m actually writing the review to this film 
120        that makes me feel as if this part of our journey together is at an 
121        end.&quot;&nbsp; <a target="popup" onclick="window.open('','popup','width=740,height=600,scrollbars=yes')" href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/kingdom_of_the_crystal_skull.html"> Read The Rest Of The Review...</a></p>
122      <p > <a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/come_and_see_the_paradise.html"> &quot;Come See The Paradise&quot;</a> - It&#39;s hard to look at this film and still 
123        feel like an enthusiastic cheerleader for The Golden Era, hoping to 
124        revive the style and the substance of those decades and hope that Big 
125        Band Swing and fedora&#39;s come back into the main stream. At the same 
126        time, this motion picture is both stark and beautiful in the way it 
127        demonstrates that in the dark times good people can over come hardships 
128        and obstacles.</p>
129      <p><a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/enigma.html">Enigma:</a> One of the best World War 2 stories not yet told on screen was that 
130        of the German &ldquo;Enigma&rdquo; code machine &ndash;until now. This is the ultimate 
131        spy story, the stuff that James Bond movies are made of&hellip; secret code 
132        machine, teams of eccentric geniuses (few who are on the brink of insanity) 
133        feverishly searching for the master codes for the encryption machines, 
134        cloak and dagger, double agents and double crosses, and other intrigue. 
135        What also makes this the ultimate spy story is that it really happened 
136        &ndash; while civilization and millions of lives was at stake.</p>
137      <p><a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/hoodwinked.html"> Hoodwinked</a> isn&rsquo;t a bad film, nor is it unfunny&hellip; there are some great 
138        laugh out loud moments at the expense of some of the characters such 
139        as the Austrian actor turned woodsman, the diabolical rabbit (a nod 
140        to &quot;Monty Python And The Holy Grail?&quot;) and many of the blundering animal 
141        police men. But just as I&rsquo;ve said before, &quot;Hoodwinked&quot; feels tired and 
142        already played out. There are a few salutes, tributes and just plain 
143        satires of classic and vintage movies scattered through out&hellip; but when 
144        the movie ended and there was a door open for there to be sequels or 
145        even a whole &quot;Hoodwinked&quot; franchise&hellip; I can&rsquo;t say that I was excited...</p>
146      <p><a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/1984/temple-of-doom.html">Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom (1984)</a> | Reviewed December 2017<br>
147        I'll throw down and say this knowing I'll take some crap over it... &quot;Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull&quot; is a much better movie and more tolerable than Temple Of Doom. That's not to say that Temple of Doom is a really bad, horrible movie. And that's not to say that Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull is a fantastic work of celluloid either. <a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/1984/temple-of-doom.html">(Read More...)</a></p>
148      <p align="center"><a href="2003/01_24_journey_of_natty_gann.html">The Journey Of Natty Gann:</a> Natty Gann is a road movie; it&rsquo;s a chick&rsquo;s road movie but not to the extent of "Thelma and Louise" or "Crossroads." The title character played by Meredith Salenger isn&rsquo;t almost raped in the parking lot of a honky-tonk resulting in a countrywide shooting spree. Thankfully this movie has something called a plot and 99.9% of anything that didn&rsquo;t have something to do with this plot- but would only serve to titillate the male audience- was left out.</p>
149      <p align="center"><a href="2005/king-kong-peter-jackson-2005.html">King Kong (2005)</a> - I have a confession to make about this movie – I loved it right up until the point that they – the crew of The Venture – returned to New York City with the beast, King Kong. In fact, much of the entire movie was literally a perfect period adventure movie right up until then. After that? It was just too much to sit through for more than 200 minutes. </p>
150      <p><a href="../../thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/2009/05_02_hope_and_glory.html"> &quot;Hope And Glory&quot; - </a>As the barriers and morals of life fall away between the sexes, the 
151        quiet evenings are pierced with air-raid sirens and falling bombs that 
152        are shattering buildings and landmarks, we&#39;re allowed in to the lives 
153        of these very real people. We, as the audience, experience the
153ir 
154        hardships and see them brought closer together by the chaos and 
155        impending doom. At times it seems that the best thing that ever 
156        happened to these people and their relationships is the war due to the way they&#39;re forced to 
157        rethink what&#39;s really important in life. <a href="../../thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/2009/05_02_hope_and_glory.html">Read More...</a></p>
158      <p> <a href="2002/04_17_last_man_standing.html">Last Man Standing</a> is supposed to be 
159        a remake of Akira Kurosawa&#39;s samurai classic &ldquo;<i>Yojimbo&rdquo;, </i>which 
160        I can only assume is correct be cause I&rsquo;ve never seen it... But what 
161        I can say is that there are times when I&rsquo;ve watched this I&rsquo;ve thought 
162        that maybe the makers of this film had more &ldquo;Raiders Of The Lost Ark&rdquo;<b> </b>(but with out any treasure) in mind. That&#39;s either ironic, coincdence 
163        or , since George Lucas has said on countless occasions on how Kurosawa 
164        inspired him in the past (If anything, Star Wars- Episode IV: A New 
165        Hope is a remake of Kurosawa&rsquo;s &ldquo;Hidden Fortress&rdquo;.) </p>
166      <p> <a target="_blank" href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/pianist.html"> &quot;The Pianist&quot;</a> - There are strong and powerful scenes 
167        and exchanges between Szpilman and the German officer that Illustrate 
168        the good a man can do when powered by guilt and shame and perhaps in 
169        a search for redemption...&quot;</p>
170      <p><a href="2018/the-post.html">&quot;The Post&quot;</a> - 
171        Eric Renderking Fisk reviews that a movie actually spoke to him as a publisher of a website.</p>
172      <p> <a target="_blank" href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/power_passion_murder.html"> Power, Passion &amp; Murder.</a>&rdquo; It&rsquo;s a frustrating, chaotic mess. The 
173        best way to describe it would be to imagine a second or third rate film 
174        crew following behind a top-notch movie company as they were filming 
175        a beautiful period film, and picture a second-rate writing team hammering 
176        out the script to correspond with what sets were available with no regard 
177        towards the greater narrative...</p>
178      <p> <a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/red_gold.html">Red 
179        Gold</a> - Just read the book before a studio buys the rights and &quot;dumbs&quot; 
180        it down...</p>
181      <p><b><a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/perdition.html">Road 
182        to Perdition</a></b> clearly illustrates what all good fathers know, 
183        that doing what ever they must do to help their children becomes second 
184        nature the day they are born. Children add an extra dimension to the 
185        lives of fathers, making their offspring&rsquo;s well being far more important 
186        then their own. Tom Hanks does a brilliant job to portray this concept 
187        as his character moves from villainous hit man with heart to the near 
188        perfect father struggling for the right words to convey how he loved 
189        both son equally but differently. </p>
190      <hr>
191      <p><a target="_self" href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/snow_falling_on_cedars.html">Snow 
192        Falling On Cedars</a> (Revised July 2007) This movie isn&rsquo;t for the faint 
193        of heart, nor is it a blockbuster. But Cedars is so perfectly filmed, 
194        perfectly catching the life and atmosphere of living up north, capturing 
195        the essence of a wintry twilight between afternoon or evening when the 
196        snow is knee deep and the roads are impassable. It&rsquo;s also another &ldquo;Slice 
197        of Life&rdquo; movie that illustrates what happened in America around the 
198        time of World War II and is essential for every Vintage Aficionado and 
199        history enthusiast for that period...</p>
200      <hr>
201      <p > &quot;With a title like <a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/2009/03_09_summer_of_42.html"> &quot;Summer Of '42,&quot;</a> I would hope that this would at least some 
202        attempt at recapturing the feel or the flavor of the era. What was 
203        it like to fall in love during the first summer of America's 
204        involvement in World War II, what where the living conditions on 
205        this vacationer's island, how did these people who were &quot;summering&quot; 
206        from other parts of the North-East region cope with food rations and 
207        the threat of Nazi subs raiding the island? After &quot;Summer Of &#39;42,&quot; you still won&#39;t 
208        know.</p>
209      <hr>
210      <p><a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/2003/4_14_untouchables.html">The 
211        Untouchables:</a> &quot;... The Untouchables is a fictionalized account of 
212        how Elliot Ness and his group of Untouchables were able to bring Chicago&rsquo;s 
213        biggest bootlegger to justice Elliot Ness was assigned to the Chicago 
214        area to break the back of the mob and bootleggers during the prohibition 
215        era. Once he discovers the greed and corruption within his team, he 
216        enlists the help of Malone played with sheer brilliance by Sean Connery. 
217        The two recruit George Stone portrayed with utter coolness by Andy Garcia 
218        and Charles Martin Smith as Oscar Wallace, the accounting genius who 
219        finds the secondary means of getting at the crime boss Al Capone.&quot;</p>
220      <h2>Classic Films</h2>
221      <p><a href="2002/across_the_pacific.html">Across the Pacific:</a> from the time this flick was filmed, the terror came from a fascist state from Europe and an Imperial regime in the pacific, not some obscure band of international criminals armed with a perverse idea of religion. Who would have thought back then that a bunch of Islamic fundamentalists would be more terrifying then book burning, goose stepping morons?</p>
222      <p><a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/2010/day_the_earth_stood_still.html" target="_blank">The Day The Earth Stood Still.&quot;</a> -   This dialog still gives me goose bumps whether or not it's read or 
223        spoken out-loud. The words are just as powerful today as when they were 
224        first spoken on the set and the motion picture was released. We are 
225        given a choice, &quot;join us and live in peace, or pursue your present 
226        course and face obliteration.&quot; The end of the motion picture is both 
227        dire and hopeful at the same time. And at the time when &quot;The Day The 
228        Earth Stood Still,&quot; there was a very real possibility that we would face 
229        our own destruction, not by aliens wishing to force their own pacifism 
230        on us for their own good, but by an atomic holocaust by our own hand.&quot; <a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/2010/day_the_earth_stood_still.html" target="_blank"> [Continued]</a></p>
231      <p><a target="popup" onclick="window.open('','popup','width=740,height=600,scrollbars=yes')" href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/laura/">&quot;Laura.&quot;</a> - The Fedora Chronicles Flicks To Hold You Over: &quot;&#39;Laura&#39; 
232        fits perfectly into the mold of &quot;Film Noir,&quot; it&#39;s about murder, obsession, 
233        unrequited love, class-envy and social status... with maybe just a hint 
234        of the potential for necrophilia. - Usually, the word &quot;Creepy&quot; and &quot;thoroughly&nbsp; 
235        Entertaining&quot; don&#39;t go together in a positive review for a movie. Unless 
236        it&#39;s film noir. &quot;Laura&quot; is almost perfect and essential Film Noir, enjoyable 
237        while at the same time making you question your humanity and what it 
238        means to be sane.&quot; <a target="popup" onclick="window.open('','popup','width=740,height=600,scrollbars=yes')" href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/laura/"> Click to read more...</a></p>
239      <p> <a target="popup" onclick="window.open('','popup','width=740,height=600,scrollbars=yes')" href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/kiss_me_deadly.html"> &quot;Kiss Me Deadly.&quot;</a> &quot;Kiss Me Deadly&quot; is the ultimate Film Noir film. 
240        Just as The Maltese Falcon is obviously about a treasure from the past, 
241        The treasure everyone seeks or is hiding in &quot;Kiss Me Deadly&quot;&nbsp; is 
242        about the new modern atomic era or an object that&#39;s beyond the comprehension 
243        of those who have acquired. The object in the suitcase could serve as 
244        a metaphor for the fears and danger of the new atomic age and the entire 
245        film could serve as a metaphor for what could (and will) happen if science 
246        surpasses society&#39;s wisdom.&quot; <a target="popup" onclick="window.open('','popup','width=740,height=600,scrollbars=yes')" href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/kiss_me_deadly.html"> Click to read the whole review...</a></p>
247      <p><a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/2010/where_the_sidew
247alk_end.html" target="_blank">Where 
248        The Side Walk Ends</a> - If &quot;The Maltese Falcon&quot; and &quot;Kiss Me Deadly&quot; are 
249        the bookends of the Film Noir Genre, &quot;Where The Sidewalk Ends&quot; helps to 
250        better define it. When you think of this genre, this The Otto Preminger 
251        film&#39;s images are what usually comes to mind. </p>
252      <h1>Contemporary Films</h1>
253      <p><em>Contemporary Movies that became cultural phenomenon&#39;s during their 
254        original release or provide an opportunity for Fedora Chronicles to 
255        comment on the social issues explored in these movies...</em><br>
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257      <p><a href="2017/13hours.html" target="_top">"13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi," | </a> January 4th, 2017 <br>
258        How could someone like myself who would most likely be a tourist in the wrong place at the wrong time – as would most likely be the case if I had actually been in Benghazi – keep my chin up and my fedora during this action? Because after watching this movie and seeing how special forces veterans had a difficult time makes me question my own masculinity and if I should find new ways to &quot;man up.&quot; </p>
259      <p> <a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/2009/03_18_big_chill.html"> The Big Chill:</a> I 
260        make no apologies or try to hide the fact that when I first saw this 
261        movie about my parents' generation, I hated it. I loved to 
262        loath it and scoff at it. Everything that's wrong about the 
263        baby-boomers, Children of The Greatest Generation and the &quot;Age Of 
264        Aquarius&quot; is jammed packed into an hour and a half of celluloid. <a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/2009/03_18_big_chill.html"> But now...</a></p>
265      <p><a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/2010/capricorn_one.html">&#8220;Capricorn One&#8221; </a>- &quot;This is hard to imagine. 
266        After I saw this movie the first time when I was 11 or 12 years old, the 
267        only thing I could remember about this conspiracy theory movie were the 
268        confusing images about Mars, and James Browlin eating a freshly killed rattle 
269        snake in cave somewhere out in the desert. When you&#39;re 40-something and 
270        you&#39;ve grown more cynical about the government and you can&#39;t swing a dead 
271        webmaster on the internet with out hitting a site with a crazy conspiracy 
272        theory, this motion picture packs a little more punch.&quot;</p>
273      <p><a href="2015/dark-skies.html">Dark Skies</a>: one of the most 'realistic' movies about alien abduction in a long time. </p>
274      <p>Deepwater Horizon: Our review of the most intense, dramatic, and traumatizing docudrama in recent history.</p>
275      <p><a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/2010/moon.html">&quot;Moon&quot;</a> - Science Fiction is at its best when it takes normal people like you and 
276        I and puts them in extraordinary circumstances and teaches something about 
277        ourselves. To the movie studios I ask - Give us space adventures, but also 
278        allow them the opportunity to make us think. Give us more &quot;Moon.&quot; </p>
279      <p> <a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/the_omen.html">The 
280        Omen</a>... enough said.</p>
281      <p> <a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/rants/2005/12_03_david_lynchs_dune.html"> David Lynch's DUNE:</a> ... the cinematic version was just eye candy for fans of the 
282        book. Since then it's become a cult-classic and Eighties Nostalgia.</p>
283      <p> <a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/bridge_to_terabithia.html"> &ldquo;Bridge to Terabithia,&rdquo;</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; ...takes you to a place in all of our imaginations, 
284        and then further into the depths of your very soul just before it rips 
285        your heart out with it&#39;s bitter-sweet ending. This is a wonderful movie 
286        that handles heavy concepts in a not too heavy handed way.</p>
287      <p><a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/2016/the-road.html">The Road (2009)</a>: Eric 'Renderking' Fisk reviews one of the most hauntingly beautiful movies about the end of the world...</p>
288      <p> <a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/saturday_night_fever.html"> Saturday Night Fever:</a> A commentator might be able to look at this 
289        movie, point to it and say that this was a major step in society&#39;s down-fall. 
290        It&#39;s hard to fight that argument when too many under-aged children saw 
291        the film and started acting out what they saw in school and at summer 
292        camp... But I digress.</p>
293      <p><a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/2016/star_wars_1977.html">Star Wars (1977) - Flicks To Hold You Over</a> review by Eric Renderking Fisk: Looking back at The Original Star Wars, not as Space Fantasy, but as one of the most important anti-establishment films of the Mid-70's and an allegory about the times it was made.</p>
294      <p><a href="2016/SPECTRE.html">SPECTRE</a>: reviews what might be the best, <em>last</em> Bond movie starring Daniel Craig...</p>
295      <p><a href="2016/spotlight.html">Spotlight</a>: what might be the best movie about a criminal investigation performed by a newspaper, Spotlight. Worthy of An Oscar for Best Picture.</p>
296      <p><a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/reviews/2016/stranger_things_season-01.html">"Stranger Things..."</a> A geat tribute to The X-Files, Stephen King, John Carpenter, and Steven Speilberg.</p>
297      <p> <a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/supermanreturns.html"> &quot;Superman Returns...&quot;</a> - &quot;Even if you can fly faster then a speeding 
298        bullet and infinitely more powerful then a locomotive, what&#39;s the point 
299        when it seems at times the world either says it doesn&#39;t want or need 
300        you any more if it isn&#39;t outright against you? </p>
301      <p><font face="Verdana" size="3">In <b style> <a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/signs.html">Signs</a></b>, 
302        M. Night Shyamalan picks up the mantle of making pure Pop Corn movies, 
303        a mantle that seems to have been handed down to him by Steven Spielberg, 
304        who -<span style>&nbsp; </span>as we all know by now - has moved on 
305        to make more serious movies such as <b style>Saving Private Ryan</b> and <b style>Schindler&#39;s List</b>. In the event that there is a script 
306        co-written by M. Night Shyamalan still floating around for the next 
307        Indiana Jones movie&hellip; I hope it gets made before it&rsquo;s too late. <b style>Signs</b> proves he has the talent to get it done.</font></p>
308      <p><a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/khan.html">&quot;The 
309        Wrath Of Khan&quot;</a> - <font face="Verdana" size="3"><span style>Both <b style>Wrath of Khan </b>and <b style>Raiders of the Lost Ark</b> represent a better time for Paramount, a brief hey-day that would later 
310          prove to be one of the most successful periods of the Studio&rsquo;s history.</span></font></p>
311      <p><a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/wotw.html">War 
312        Of The Worlds:</a> With &quot;War Of The Worlds,&quot; Mr. Spielberg was going 
313        back to his home turf and getting his &quot;A-Game&quot; back on while making 
314        an updated yet loyal adaptation of H.G. Wells&rsquo; book! Its a rabid Fan-boy&rsquo;s 
315        dream come true, isn&rsquo;t it? The results were both fantastic and disappointing&hellip; 
316        it&rsquo;s a road movie, it&rsquo;s a family drama, and it&rsquo;s a disaster flick. It&#39;s 
317        not his best...&quot;</p>
318      <p><a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/ren/2001.html">2001: 
319        A Space Odyssey</a> is of course a story about a journey, but not of 
320        one man&rsquo;s trip such as Odysseus&rsquo;s.&nbsp; 2001 is about the progression 
321        of the human race and three progressive stages of development, each 
322        portrayal demonstrates the various beginnings of each phase: Cavemen 
323        discovering the use of tools, Man&#39;s exploration and exploitation of 
324        Space, One man&#39;s journey through &quot;The Star Gate&quot; and finally as a new 
325        born &quot;infant&quot; as a symbol of the very beginning of the next phase of 
326        evolution.</p>
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328      <p><a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/2016/amanda-knox-netflix.html" style="color: blue; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(235, 234, 233);">Amanda Knox on Netflix</a>: The further we look into the story of Amanda Knox the more we should be looking back in situations in our own lives that could have gone way out of hand.</p>
329      <p><a href="2016/09_07_cropsey.html">Cropsey</a>: Review of the movie about a Staten Island urban legend that actually came true...</p>
330      <p><a href="2016/making-a-murderer.html">Making A Murderer:</a> The mini-series from Netflix that's captured the imagination of the western world.</p>
331      <p><a href="https://thefedorachronicles.com/flicks/2016/soaked_in_bleach.html">Soaked In Bleach: </a> Eric Renderking Fisk reviews what could be one of the best Film Noir styled documentaries ever made.</p>
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