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Drama on February 24th, 2007 by Chad Everett
On November 14, 1970, as the Marshall Thundering Herd was returning from a football game at East Carolina University, and the chartered plane they were on clipped the trees just short of the runway and crashed, killing 75 people aboard, including most of the football team, the coach, the athletic director, and a number of prominent boosters from Huntington, West Virginia.
Couping this with being kicked out of their conference the year before due to a massive number of rule violations (a fact not exactly mentioned in the movie), school president Donald Dedmon (David Strathairn) considers indefinitely suspending the football program at Marshall. Some students convince him otherwise.
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Drama on November 15th, 2006 by Chad Everett
This movie tells the life of Johnny Cash through a series of clips that give us a glimpse of what are presumably the important moments that he encounters.
When the movie opens, Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) is just about to go onstage at Folsom Prison – we’ll find out more about just why he is doing so later.
But before he does, he starts to day dream while looking at a table saw, and that takes him back to 1944, where he recalls his brother, Jack.
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Action on November 8th, 2006 by Chad Everett
You might think that The Dukes of Hazzard return in this big screen fiasco, but you’d be wrong. About the only thing that remains the same between this movie and the original The Dukes of Hazzard
is the name, the name of the players and the General Lee.
The Duke boys do shoot those arrows that explode when they hit something, and the place names are the same.
Oh, and you could almost count Willie Nelson, because he used to play with Waylon Jennings. Willie plays the new Uncle Jesse, and Waylon used be The Balladeer. But that’s about as close as it gets, and that’s also the end of the comparison. Sad, really.
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