Great classic American films to watch now

If you are looking for a great classic film to watch now, and especially one with an American setting, then check out this list curated by the Mediaion review team.

Sunset Boulevard. Billy Wilder, 1950. Former silent star Gloria Swanson is magnificent as a former silent star with a tenuous grip on reality. As her young screenwriter lover, William Holden’s fate is known from the opening scene — he lies dead in a swimming pool.

City Lights. Charlie Chaplin, 1931. Charlie Chaplin mixes heart-tugging sentiment with wild hilarity in his best film. He plays a tramp, of course, who wins the heart of a blind woman. The boxing scene is one of the very funniest ever committed to film.

The Godfather, Part II. Francis Ford Coppola, 1974. The prequel/sequel to Copppola’s 1972 masterpiece shows a crime family’s beginning and its maturity into a murderous business. Al Pacino’s ice-cold, utter heartlessness makes him one of the cinema’s most nuanced villains.

Gone with the Wind. Victor Fleming, 1939. The grandest of all grand epics features unforgettable characters making their way through an unforgettable time. Vivian Leigh and Clark Gable are, well, unforgettable, as the passionate lovers whose intransigent personalities draw them together and pull them apart.

All About Eve. Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950. This clear-eyed and deliciously knowing look at actors and the theater boasts what is arguably the best (and most quotable) script every written. Bette Davis’ character of Margo Channing is one of the crowning glories of film.

North by Northwest. Alfred Hitchcock, 1959. This is Hitchcock at perhaps his most Hitchcockian, mixing terrific humor with equally terrific suspense, plus an unusually engaging love story between Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint.

The General. Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton, 1926. No other film provokes such giddy laughter from the first silent frame to the last, with nearly every gag now considered a classic. And it’s even based on a true story, sort of.

Singin’ in the Rain. Gene Kelly, Stanley Donan, 1952. It’s everything a musical should be, and so much more. Great songs, great dances, great jokes, a surprisingly fascinating look at the transition from silent films to sound, plus Jean Hagen’s truly inimitable (and put-on) voice.

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The Most Dramatic Quotes From The Film A Few Good Men

One of the best courtroom dramas ever made is the 1992 Rob Reiner movie, A Few Good Men. There are so many great quotes from the film that it’s hard to pick just a few, so here is our collection of what we think are the best, curated by the Mediaion review team.

“We follow orders, son. We follow orders or people die. It’s that simple. Are we clear?”

“You gotta ask me nicely.”

“Should we or should we not follow the advice of the galactically stupid!”

“I like all you Navy boys. Every time we’ve gotta go someplace to fight, you fellas always give us a ride.”

“Excuse me. I didn’t dismiss you.”

“I just followed the crowd at chow time, sir.”

“I’d like you to leave the room, so we can talk about you behind your back.”

“I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4000 Cubans who are trained to kill me.”

“I get a set of steak knives.”

“I disagree only inasmuch as I disagree that a paraplegic is entitled to foxtrot. It’d be nice, it just ain’t possible.”

“I’m gonna rip the eyes out of your head and piss into your dead skull!”

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Top Audiobook Dramas

One of the ways that books were brought to life before the audiobook was the radio or audio dramas. These often involved a full cast of actors playing the various parts. However, there are now audiobooks that use the same technique to bring new books to life. You can find some of them on sites like Mediaion, but here are the top audiobook dramas you can hear now.

‘Pride and Prejudice’ by Jane Austen

One of those books that has been retold and adapted countless times, yet, it still enthralls people with its tale of love and romance. You can hear this book in both radio play form and as an audiobook on sites like Mediaion.

‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Another book that has the adaptation treatment many times. Hound of the Baskervilles is arguably the most well known of the Sherlock Holmes series of books and stories. Although there are audiobooks with one narrator, this full-cast edition is great and bringing out the different characters.

‘Alice Isn’t Dead’ by Joseph Fink

This is a surreal adventure, but one that lends itself well to full-cast audio. It follows a trucker on her quest to find her missing wife. Along the way, she encounters all manner of interesting characters and has some close calls as she winds her way through small towns in America.

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Motivational quotes to help you rid toxic people from your life

We all have dramatic people in our lives, but some people take it to the extreme. To help you stay strong and remove those toxic people in your life, take guidance from the Mediaion review team with this curated list of powerful quotes.

1. “No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson

2. “It’s one thing if a person owns up to their behavior and makes an effort to change. But if a person disregards your feelings, ignores your boundaries, and continues to treat you in a harmful way, they need to go.” —Daniell Koepke

3. “The hardest part of being in an emotionally abusive relationship, it’s actually admitting you’re in one.” ― Anna Akana

4. “Not all friends know they have lost you.” ― Joyce Rachelle

5. “My father once said, ‘If you’re in the desert and you’re dying of thirst, are you going to drink a glass of blood or are you going to drink a glass of water?’ I think what he was trying to say, interesting coming from my blood father, is sometimes there are people in your family that can be toxic.” – Nicolas Cage

6. “We teach people how to treat us.” — Dr. Phil

7. “What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.” – Margaret Mitchell

8. “An oppressive nature is like inclement weather, surrounding others and crushing them down with its infectious gloom.” ― Stewart Stafford

9. “Don’t let toxic people infect you with the fear of giving and receiving one of the most powerful forces in this world… LOVE!” ― Yvonne Pierre

10. “Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” — Deborah Reber

11. “If someone thinks you’re being dramatic or selfish, then they obviously haven’t walked a mile in your shoes. It’s not important for you to explain yourself. You get a pass here. Don’t let anyone else try to saddle you with guilt or shame. If you need your space, take it.” ― Sarah Newman

12. “Sometimes there are things in life that aren’t meant to stay. Sometimes change may not be what we want. Sometimes change is what we need.” —Don Bolena Jr.

13. “My encouragement: delete the energy vampires from your life, clean out all complexity, build a team around you that frees you to fly, remove anything toxic, and cherish simplicity. Because that’s where genius lives.” — Robin S. Sharma

14. It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of ‘Me’, which is basically a tyranny of others.” ― Stefan Molyneux

15. “Toxic people will pollute everything around them. Don’t hesitate. Fumigate.” ― Mandy Hale

16. “The people in your life will either help you shake hands with yourself or they’ll teach you what you don’t want. Everyone, eventually, does one or the other. All pain transforms to learning. All love transforms to self-awareness.” ― Vironika Tugaleva

17. “If it comes, let it come. If it goes, it’s ok, let it go. Let things come and go. Stay calm, don’t let anything disturb your peace, and carry on.” ― Germany Kent

18. “If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.” — Michael Jordan

19. “Cleanliness is a habit that keeps the body, mind, and environment neat, clean, and delightful and free from dirt and toxic things.” ― Amit Ray

20. “I found peace of mind when I walked away from small fights not worth fighting. I stopped fighting for people who gossiped about me. I stopped fighting for those who didn’t respect me. I quit worrying about those who wouldn’t value me for being me.” ― Dana Arcuri

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Great romantic reads you won’t want to put down

If you love your romantic novels, then you will be pleased with this great list curated by the Mediaion review team.

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Christopher McCandless, aka Alexander Supertramp, hitchhiked to Alaska and disappeared into the Denali wilderness in April 1992. Five months later, McCandless was found emaciated and deceased in his shelter — but of what cause? Krakauer’s biography of McCandless retraces his steps back to the beginning of the trek, attempting to check out what the young man was looking for on his journey and whether he fully understood what dangers lay before him.

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families by James Agee

“Let us now praise famous men and our fathers that begat us.” This line derives the central issue of Agee and Evans’s work: who truly deserves our praise and recognition? According to this 1941 biography, it’s the barely-surviving sharecropper families who the American “Dust Bowl severely impacted” — hundreds of people entrenched in poverty, whose humanity Evans and Agee desperately implore their audience to see in their book.

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann

Another mysterious explorer takes center stage in this gripping 2009 biography. Grann tells Percy Fawcett’s story, the archaeologist who vanished in the Amazon along with his son in 1925, supposedly in search of an ancient lost city. Parallel to this narrative, Grann describes his travels in the Amazon 80 years later: discovering firsthand what threats Fawcett may have encountered and coming to realize what the “Lost City of Z” really was.

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Eckhart Tolle Quotes About Drama

Eckhart Tolle is a spiritual teacher and best-selling author known for The Power of Now and A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose. Here are some of his best dramatic quotes curated by the team at Mediaion.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create a sense of identity.

Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create a sense of identity.

All you need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

Nothing that comes and goes is you.

‘I am bored.’ Who knows this?

‘I am angry, sad, afraid.’ Who knows this?

You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

Nothing that is of real value can be lost; only the false dissolves.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have or think they have.

Once bliss becomes routine, it’s no longer bliss; it’s just peace.

After being lost in the world, suddenly, through the pressure of suffering, the realization comes that the answers may not be found out there in worldly attainment and the future. That’s an important point for many people to reach. That sense of deep crisis-when the world as they have known it and the sense of self they have known that is identified with the world, become meaningless.

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.

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3 Best Mystery Drama eBooks

Mystery drama eBooks stimulate your mind to ensure you have a thrilling reading experience. What’s the best part? You can read these eBooks anywhere and at any time. Here are some of the best mystery drama eBooks that will make you a fan of this genre.

Blue Moon – Jack Reacher

Jack Reacher, today’s James Bond, is a good actor that we cannot get enough of. In this book, he stars as a character who travels but has no idea where he is going. On one of the stops, he descends to help an older man who seemed stranded. He wants to do good deeds to make it right. The couple is in big trouble; they owe a massive sum of money to some bad people. Reacher finds himself in the middle of the war and fights for the old couple he thinks to deserve a second chance.

A Murderous Relation – Deanna Raybourn

Veronica and Stoker, her colleague, are asked to stop investigating a scandal that threatens the monarchy. The prince, Albert Victor, loses an expensive gift while drinking at the most expensive club in London; Madame Aurore recovers it and has to give it back to the king before scandal arises.

Mystery Man -Mike Farcify

Lord Tubby Gustafson develops a bad habit of not paying his small contractors. When one of the contractors decides to seek legal representation, Tubby asks his lawyer to bat for his client. The case does not pan out the way he had planned, and he is about to pay for his crime.

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Quotes on taking your time and not wasting it

Being patient can sometimes be much better than rushing into an opportunity, and so to demonstrate that, we have compiled a list of quotes on taking your time and making the right move.

“There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“The important thing is to take your time and not get stressed.” — Diane von Furstenberg

“Take your time. There’s no rush to be good or renowned.” — Kathryn Budig

“If you’re really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.” — Billy Gibbons

“When you take the small roads you see the life that goes on there, and this makes your own life larger.” ―Elizabeth Berg

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.” — Wyatt Earp

“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.” — Mason Cooley

“Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste your life, or master your time and master your life.” — Alan Lakein

“We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.” — Alice Boch

“You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.” — James Matthew Barrie

“Make use of time, let not advantage slip.” — William Shakespeare

“Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something, then you have the time to do something about it.” — Anthony J. D’Angelo

“You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.” — Charles F. Kettering

“Life is flying by. You don’t have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.” — Joel Osteen

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5 Five Fun Facts about the Golden Globes’ top dramatic actors

Unlike the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes splits its motion picture awards into different categories based on genre. When the Golden Globes were first awarded in 1943, they presented awards for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress. However, since 1951, they have handed out different awards for actors and actresses appearing in dramas, musicals and comedy genres.

The award of Best Actor in a drama has been given to some of the finest film actors over the last 50 years. Here are some fun facts about the Golden Globes’ best dramatic actors.

1. The first award for Best Actor in a Drama was awarded to Fredric March in 1951 for his portrayal of Wily Loman in Death of a Salesman.

 

2. The first non-American of the award was renowned British stage and screen actor Alec Guinness. He received the accolade for his role as Colonel Nicholson in Bridge on the River Kwai.

3. The title of most wins is shared by Tom Hanks and Jack Nicholson who have both won the award three times. Hanks won his awards for Philadelphia, Forrest Gump and Castaway. Nicholson picked up the award for his performances in Chinatown, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest and About Schmidt.

 

4. Al Pacino has received the most nominations for Best Actor in a Drama with 10. He has won twice for his performances in Serpico and Scent of a Woman.

5. Paul Newman holds the unwelcome distinction of having the most nominations in the Best Actor in Drama without winning. He was nominated seven times in the category but missed out on each occasion.

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Song Quotes From the Biggest Country Music Hits of 2019

If you want to say goodbye to 2020 and relive last year, start by listening to these great country music song quotes from 2019’s hits.

1. “You can hold my hand / When you need to let go / I can be your mountain / When you’re feeling valley-low /I can be your streetlight / Showing you the way home/ You can hold my hand / When you need to let go” – “Crowded Table”, The Highwomen

2. “Yeah, I’m gonna take my horse to the old town road / I’m gonna ride ’til I can’t no more / I’m gonna take my horse to the old town road / I’m gonna ride ’til I can’t no more” – “Old Town Road”, Lil Nas X

3. “Beautiful, crazy, she can’t help but amaze me / The way that she dances, ain’t afraid to take chances / And wears her heart on her sleeve / Yeah, she’s crazy but her crazy’s beautiful to me” – “Beautiful Crazy”, Luke Combs

4. “And here I go again, I’m drinkin’ one, I’m drinkin’ two / I got my heartache medication, a strong dedication / To gettin’ over you, turnin’ me loose / On that hardwood jukebox lost in neon time / My heartache medication, well, it suits me fine / And I’m drinkin’ enough to take you off my mind / I got my heartache medication” – “Heartache Medication”, Jon Pardi

5. “I thought I’d miss you (when it ended) / I thought it hurt me (but it didn’t) / I thought I’d miss you / I thought I’d miss you / But I miss me more / I miss my own beat, to my own snare drum / I miss me more / Miss my own sheets in the bed I made up / I forgot I had dreams, I forgot I had wings / Forgot who I was before I ever kissed you / Yeah, I thought I’d miss you / But I miss me more (I miss me more)” – “Miss Me More”, Kelsea Ballerini

6. “Yeah birds need bees and ice needs whiskey / Boys like me need girls like you to kiss me / Fishin’ in the dark needs nitty gritty / Under that pale moon / Sweet tea needs that sugar stirrin’ / Small town nights need both ends burnin’ / Shades need drawin’, hearts need fallin’ / Boots need knockin’, knockin’ boots” – “Knockin’ Boots”, Luke Bryan

7. “I’ma need some whiskey glasses / ‘Cause I don’t wanna see the truth / She’s probably making out on the couch right now / With someone new / Yeah, I’ma need some whiskey glasses / If I’m gonna make it through / If I’ma be single / I’ma need a double shot of that heartbreak proof / And see the world through whiskey glasses” – “Whiskey Glasses”, Morgan Wallen

8. “Right outside of this one church town / There’s a gold dirt road to a whole lot of nothin’ / Got a deed to the land, but it ain’t my ground / This is God’s country” – “God’s Country”, Blake Shelton

9. “If I bring you home to mama / I guess I’d better warn ya / She falls in love a little faster than I do / And my dad will check your tires / Pour you whiskey over ice and / Take you fishing but pretend that he don’t like you / Oh, if we break up, I’ll be fine / But you’ll be breaking more hearts than mine” – “More Hearts Than Mine”, Ingrid Andress

10. “Long-neck ice-cold beer never broke my heart / Like diamond rings and football teams have torn this boy apart / Like a neon dream, it just dawned on me, that bars and this guitar / And long-neck ice-cold beer never broke my heart” – “Beer Never Broke My Heart”, Luke Combs

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