Live from New York by Jesus Culture
Jesus Culture's 2012 Live from New York is a long, fervent night of worship with Martin Smith and Kim Walker-Smith.
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New Horizons by Flyleaf
Flyleaf's 2012 New Horizons is a heavy, hopeful album, the last with Lacey Sturm, full of fire and farewell.
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Spy Game
Spy Game (2001), directed by Tony Scott, is a sharp and thrilling espionage film that keeps you hooked. Robert Redford is outstanding as Nathan Muir, a seasoned CIA operative racing against time to save his protégé, Tom Bishop, played with intensity by Brad Pitt.
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The Dictator
The Dictator (2012), directed by Larry Charles, is a comedy about a North African tyrant who loses his identity while visiting New York. Sacha Baron Cohen plays Admiral General Aladeen, the ruler of the fictional Republic of Wadiya.
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Eye on It by TobyMac
TobyMac's 2012 album Eye on It blends Christian hip hop and pop rock with electronic colour and bright, hopeful hooks.
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The Janson Command by Robert Ludlum
In Robert Ludlum’s The Janson Command, co-authored with Paul Garrison, Paul Janson and Jessica Kincaid rescue a doctor in West Africa and uncover an oil cartel pulling the strings.
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Brave
A Bridge Too Far (1977), directed by Richard Attenborough, shows Operation Market Garden. This Allied plan in 1944 aimed to seize bridges in the Netherlands to end the war fast. It failed. The film uses a large cast.
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House M.D.
House M.D. is an American medical drama series. It aired on Fox from 16 November 2004 to 21 May 2012. David Shore created it. Hugh Laurie plays Dr Gregory House, a brilliant but difficult diagnostician who leads a team at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital.
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Ice Age: Continental Drift
Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012), directed by Steve Martino and Mike Thurmeier, splits the herd apart when the continents begin to shift. Ray Romano voices Manny, who is set adrift on an iceberg and must find his way back to his family.
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Quiet by Susan Cain
Susan Cain challenges the prevailing notion that extroversion is the sole determinant of success.
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The Loft Sessions by Bethel Music
Bethel Music's 2012 The Loft Sessions is an intimate, acoustic worship record, warm and unhurried in its tone.
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Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012), directed by Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, and Conrad Vernon, follows the zoo animals across Europe as they join a travelling circus to escape a relentless animal control officer. Ben Stiller voices Alex the lion.
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The Grey
The Grey (2011), directed by Joe Carnahan, follows men who crash in Alaska. Liam Neeson plays Ottway, a hunter who guards oil workers. He knows wolves and death.
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Now by Fireflight
Fireflight's 2012 album Now pairs hard, driving rock with a powerful female vocal and lyrics about resilience and hope.
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Believer by Kutless
Kutless return in 2012 with a heavier, worship-minded record that pairs hard guitars with songs of faith and endurance.
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Freedom by Michael W. Smith
Michael W. Smith's 2000 release, wordless music for reflection. I came to it well after release and have returned to it since.
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Come to the Well by Casting Crowns
Casting Crowns' 2011 album writes plainly about grace and worth, story songs that meet people where they hurt.
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Be Lifted High by Bethel Music
Bethel Music's 2011 live album gathers warm, spacious worship from a single church, songs that grew in the room.
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Vice Verses by Switchfoot
Switchfoot's 2011 rock album holds doubt and faith side by side, restless songs about living with both at once.
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The Ares Decision by Robert Ludlum
In Robert Ludlum’s The Ares Decision, co-authored with Kyle Mills, Covert-One's Jon Smith goes to Uganda to track a drug that turns ordinary people into killers, with Iran behind the supply.
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Cars 2
Cars 2 (2011), directed by John Lasseter and Brad Lewis, sends Lightning McQueen to races in Japan and Europe. Owen Wilson voices McQueen with speed and heart. He meets old rivals.
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For the Honor by Elevation Worship
Elevation Worship's 2011 debut live album brings bright, bold church songs from a young Charlotte congregation.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), directed by Rob Marshall, follows Jack Sparrow on a race to find the Fountain of Youth. Johnny Depp plays Jack, pulled into the quest by an old flame and a pirate he would rather avoid.
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Hanna
Hanna (2011), directed by Joe Wright, follows a young girl trained to kill. Saoirse Ronan plays Hanna with cold skill and wide eyes. She lives in snow with her father.
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Awakening: Live from Chicago by Jesus Culture
Jesus Culture's 2011 double live album captures a loud, hungry worship night, raw and long and full of fire.
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