Secrets of Movies

A boy's faith in his father, a booby-trapped pirate ship, and more swearing than any 1985 kids' movie should have. Dom Bettinelli, Rob Leonardi, and Patrick Mason revisit why The Goonies still pulls fans to Astoria.

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Horror, slapstick, and pulp adventure somehow share one movie — and it works. Jeff Haecker, Rob Leonardi, and Robert Story revisit The Mummy and The Mummy Returns ahead of the franchise's fourth film.

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A widowed empress must choose between killing a monster or trusting its warning. Filmmaker Gene Kim talks with Angela Sealana and Jeff Haecker about One Last Monster — his Korean-history sci-fi short on the comfort zone, grief, and faith.

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A Scottish priest spends six decades in China and never once bullies anyone into belief. Kathryn Laffrey and Alix Murray dig into The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) — Gregory Peck's first Oscar-nominated role — and the power of Golden Age faith on film.

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The presidential speech was written in five minutes as a placeholder. Nobody replaced it. Yet people are still quoting it three decades later. Dom Bettinelli, Jeff Haecker, and Rob Leonardi trace its roots — Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas — on Independence Day at 30.

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