|
Peaceful Warrior
''Peaceful Warrior'' is a 2006 drama film directed by Victor Salva and written by Kevin Bernhardt based on the 1980 novel '' Way of the Peaceful Warrior'' by Dan Millman. Set at U.C. Berkeley, the film stars Scott Mechlowicz as a troubled but talented gymnast who meets a spiritual guide portrayed by Nick Nolte. Plot Dan Millman is a university student as well as a locally famous gymnast who dreams of winning a National Championship competition. He suffers from restlessness, and on one occasion, Dan attempts to compensate for it by running along streets before sunrise. At a car-service station, he encounters an old man who seems to know more about Dan's problem than Dan himself knows, whom Dan later nicknames "Socrates". Dan is unsettled by Socrates' knowledge; by the fact that Socrates had appeared in a nightmare as a faceless janitor, clad in mismatched shoes (by which he is identified in waking life), who sweeps up the pieces of Dan's shattered leg; and by the old man's extrao ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Salva
Victor Ronald Salva (born March 29, 1958) is an American film director, screenwriter and convicted sex offender. The self-described protégé of Francis Ford Coppola, he is best known for writing and directing the horror film, horror films ''Jeepers Creepers (2001 film), Jeepers Creepers'' (2001), ''Jeepers Creepers 2'' (2003), and ''Jeepers Creepers 3'' (2017). In 1988, Salva was convicted of sexually abusing child actor Nathan Forrest Winters during the production of ''Clownhouse'' (1989); he also videotaped one of the encounters and was found to possess child pornography, though this was not publicized until 2006. Protests against his films soon followed, including boycotts organized by Winters. Despite this, he has continued to work in the industry and has made the films ''Powder (1995 film), Powder'' (1995), ''Peaceful Warrior'' (2006), ''Rosewood Lane'' (2011), and ''Dark House (2014 film), Dark House'' (2014). Early life Victor Ronald Salva was born in Martinez, California ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socrates
Socrates (; ; – 399 BC) was a Ancient Greek philosophy, Greek philosopher from Classical Athens, Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and as among the first moral philosophers of the Ethics, ethical tradition of thought. An enigmatic figure, Socrates authored no texts and is known mainly through the posthumous accounts of classical writers, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon. These accounts are written as dialogues, in which Socrates and his interlocutors examine a subject in the style of question and answer; they gave rise to the Socratic dialogue literary genre. Contradictory accounts of Socrates make a reconstruction of his philosophy nearly impossible, a situation known as the Socratic problem. Socrates was a polarizing figure in Athenian society. In 399 BC, he was accused of Asebeia, impiety and corrupting the youth. After Trial of Socrates, a trial that lasted a day, he was sentenced to death. He spent his last day in prison ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metacritic
Metacritic is an American website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted average). Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999, and was acquired by Fandom, Inc. in 2022. Metacritic turns each critic and user review into respective percentage score. This can be done either by calculating the score from the rating given or by making a subjective decision based on the review's quality. Before averaging the scores, they are adjusted based on the critic's popularity, reputation, and the number of reviews they have written. The site also includes a summary from each review and links to the original source, using colors like green, yellow, or red to indicate the overall sentiment of the critics. Metacritic won two Webby Awards for excellence as an aggregation website. It is regarded as the foremost online rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator, review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor Theatre, stage performance, the direct inspiration for the name from Duong, Lee, and Wang came from an equivalent scene in the 1992 Canadian film ''Léolo''. Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros. in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango Media, Fandango ticketing company. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. The site is influential among moviegoers, a third of whom say they consult it before going to the cinema in the U.S. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opposition To United States Involvement In The Vietnam War
Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War began in 1965 with demonstrations against the escalating role of the United States in the Vietnam War, United States in the war. Over the next several years, these demonstrations grew into a social movement which was incorporated into the broader counterculture of the 1960s. Members of the peace movement within the United States at first consisted of many students, mothers, and counterculture of the 1960s, anti-establishment youth. Opposition grew with the participation of leaders and activists of the Civil rights movement, civil rights, Second-wave feminism, feminist, and Chicano Movement, Chicano movements, as well as sectors of organized labor. Additional involvement came from many other groups, including educators, clergy, academics, journalists, lawyers, military veterans, physicians (notably Benjamin Spock), and others. Anti-war demonstrations consisted mostly of peaceful, Nonviolence, nonviolent protests. By 196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peace Movement
A peace movement is a social movement which seeks to achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war (or wars) or minimizing inter-human violence in a particular place or situation. They are often linked to the goal of achieving world peace. Some of the methods used to achieve these goals include advocacy of pacifism, nonviolent resistance, diplomacy, boycotts, peace camps, ethical consumerism, supporting anti-war political candidates, supporting legislation to remove profits from government contracts to the military–industrial complex, Gun politics in the United States, banning guns, creating tools for open government and government transparency, transparency, direct democracy, supporting whistleblowers who expose war crimes or false flag, conspiracies to create wars, Demonstration (people), demonstrations, and Interest group, political lobbying. The political cooperative is an example of an organization which seeks to merge all peace-movement and green organizations; t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scooter Page
Scooter Page (born Scott Caudill on December 3, 1976), is an American actor, musician and songwriter from San Pedro, California. Early life Scooter Page was born and raised in San Pedro, California. Page attended San Pedro High School. Since he was young, Scooter has enjoyed writing songs and stories. At age 15, he made his acting debut as one of the Newsies Dancers in Disney's ''Newsies'' (1992). This led to roles in ''3 Ninjas (film), 3 Ninjas'' (1992) as well as ''3 Ninjas Kick Back'' (1994) and a steady career in film and television. Acting career Page, whose film and TV work is credited by his birth name, Scott Caudill, has appeared in various films and television shows since his first appearance in Disney's Newsies (1992). Later that year, he was cast as Daren in 3 Ninjas and its 1994 sequel, 3 Ninjas Kick Back. In 2002, he appeared as Blaine in ''Wishcraft'', a supernatural thriller, in which he co-starred with Meatloaf (singer), Meatloaf, who became a close on-set frie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnes Bruckner
Agnes Bruckner (born August 16, 1985) is an American actress and former model (person), model. She began acting in television in the late 1990s and has since appeared in several films, including ''The Woods (2006 film), The Woods'', ''Blue Car'', ''Murder by Numbers'', ''Blood & Chocolate (film), Blood & Chocolate'', ''The Anna Nicole Story'', ''The 11th Green'', and ''Private Practice (TV series), Private Practice''. Early life Bruckner was born in Los Angeles, California to a Hungarian father and a Russian mother who have since divorced; her grandfather is German. Her parents met in Hungary and emigrated to the U.S. in 1984 through a refugee camp in Italy. She has two sisters and a brother. Bruckner speaks some Russian and is fluent in Hungarian, having spoken that language since birth. She had studied dance, ballet, and tap dance, tap since the age of five, intending a career as a dancer. At the age of eight, Bruckner appeared in a Beauty contest, beauty pageant while working ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Wesley
Paweł Tomasz Wasilewski (; July 23, 1982), better known by his stage name Paul Wesley, is an American actor and film director. He is known for starring as Stefan Salvatore in '' The Vampire Diaries'' (2009–2017) and James T. Kirk in '' Star Trek: Strange New Worlds'' (2022–present). In 2003, Paul also starred as Lucas Luthor, Lex Luthor's younger brother, in the superhero series ''Smallville''. Early life Paul Wesley was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey to Polish parents Tomasz and Agnieszka Wasilewski. He grew up in Marlboro Township, New Jersey. He has one elder sister, Monika Emara, and two younger sisters, Leah and Julia. In addition to English, he also speaks Polish, having spent four months of every year in Poland until the age of 16. Wesley attended Christian Brothers Academy in Lincroft, New Jersey, and Marlboro High School for a period during his high school years. He started his theater studies in New York City and transferred from Marlboro High School t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashton Holmes
Ashton Holmes (born February 17, 1978) is an American actor, best known for the role of Jack Stall in ''A History of Violence'' (2005), Private Sidney Phillips in the HBO miniseries ''The Pacific'' (2010), Thom on the CW action-thriller series ''Nikita'' (2010–2011), and as Tyler Barrol on the ABC drama series ''Revenge'' (2011–2012). Personal life Holmes was born in Albany, New York. His mother, Susan, is a social worker. At a young age he began taking acting lessons and appeared in community theater. He attended The Albany Academy. During his senior year of high school, he attended the intern program of the New York State Theater Institute. Holmes was involved with the Albany music scene, and was the lead singer for local band Method of Groove. During this time, Holmes befriended Nyack, New York band Coheed and Cambria, and began shopping around their demos to local indie labels. According to the Coheed and Cambria documentary '' Neverender: Children of The Fence Editio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim DeKay
Timothy Robert DeKay (born June 12, 1963) is an American actor. He starred in the USA Network series ''White Collar'' (2009–2014). Early life Tim DeKay was born June 12, 1963, to Jim DeKay and Jill Vaughn in Lansing, New York, where he and his brother Jamey grew up. He attended Lansing High School. Growing up, DeKay enjoyed athletics, having played both varsity basketball and baseball, the latter of which is a generational tradition in his family. He enjoyed the arts and performed in his high school's production of ''Oliver!''. DeKay attended Le Moyne College to study business and philosophy, where he also played baseball, eventually deciding to pursue a career in theater. DeKay planned for a career in business or law and graduated with a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1985. However, he realized that he wanted to work in theater instead. After taking a few courses in directing at Syracuse University, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
