Half a Bride the now important marriage problem ... gives to the screen one of the greatest epics of all times". "Photoplay" magazine called the film "good entertainment". "Motion Picture" magazine wrote, "Gary Cooper is at his best and Esther Ralston is particularly winning." Less impressed with the film, the "Montreal Gazette" described "Half a Bride" as "a rather familiar story told with none too great originality and lacking almost entirely the element of suspense." Half a Bride Half a Bride is a 1928 American silent romance film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Esther Ralston, Gary Cooper, and William Worthington. Based
Split: A Divided America Split: A Divided America Split: A Divided America is a documentary film about partisan divides in American society. It examines a perceived political divide (Red-States / Blue States, Conservatives and Liberals, Republicans and Democrats) from the perspective of cultural factors (like religion, urbanization, race and wealth), the modern media, contemporary campaigning strategies, and the "deterioration of civil discourse in our political experience". Kelly Nyks directed, co-wrote, and co-produced the film with co-writer Peter Hutchison and Jeff Beard. The cast includes Al Franken, Jesse Jackson, Noam Chomsky, Norm Ornstein, Tucker Carlson, Bruce Bartlett, Thomas Frank, Robert Putnam and Sharon Pratt Kelly