As the one person I know who enjoyed?Terminator: Salvation, I was sure that I would find something to like in the universally panned fifth installment of the franchise. Here, future John Connor (Jason Clarke) sends Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) back in time to save...
What do Starbucks, Seth Rogen, & Jesus have in common? I'm all for apologetics, the "reasoned arguments or writings in justification of something, typically a theory or religious doctrine." In their place and in their time. But why do people of faith find...
"For a paper to best perform its function, it must stand alone."--Marty Baron In 2001, a new editor arrived at The Boston Globe, pushing the newspaper's investigative team to look into the Catholic sex scandal in Massachusetts. Instead of assuming that the Catholic...
When the news broke that Daniel Craig would be succeeding Pierce Brosnan as James Bond, it seemed highly improbable. He is, of course, blond, not dark-haired. He had starred in Layer Cake, which lent itself to being hard to understand, and hardly debonair. How could...
It doesn't take long in?The Gift?for the audience to figure out that not everything is what it seems. While Simon (Jason Bateman) and Robyn (Rebecca Hall) seem like the perfect couple (not quite the Waltons, but...) they're bound to have life as they know it blow up...
Alien life forms have interpreted 1980s messages sent into space as a challenge. Now, they have arrived on Earth to 'play' through three rounds of attacks to decide whether or not the Earth will be destroyed. Only a group of video game-playing thirty- and...
Inside Out?is not a kid's film. It's not one of those sweet and inflated stories of heart-filled adventures that giggles its way through a story that makes no sense. (Rarely do Disney films fall into that category anyway.) You know the stories I mean: when the main...
Woody, Buzz, and the rest of the?Toy Story?crew are back at it in this 2014 Christmas special from Disney/Pixar. When the child Bonnie takes some of her favorite toys to a playdate with her friend, Mason, they are accidentally held hostage within a dinosaur world run...
Everything old is new again, right? In July, Warner Bros. released the sequel to the original 1983 National Lampoon's film. Now, fans of the series can own their own copy on Blu-ray, DVD, or Digital HD. As a fan of the films, especially?Christmas Vacation, I can...