Whether it’s the comic strips or the classic movies, Peanuts has spanned generations with its classic characters like Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy, and more. It doesn’t matter your age: at some point in your life, you’ve come in contact with these characters and immediately fell in love. It is the emodiment of great storytelling with…
If you sit down to think about it, humans are pretty amazing creatures. But do we need to become more? Can we use the creations and inventions we?ve developed to somehow become more than human?
So you had your identity stolen.? Maybe your bank account got hacked because of the great Target credit card breach of Ought-Fourteen.? Perhaps you even got busted talking to dudes that you thought were dudettes on Ashley Madison.? If that’s the extent of your cyber-crime victimization, consider yourself lucky. Go watch The Den if you…
“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 church’s hierarchy?and the legal system are actually exposing the truth, editor Marty…
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 an actor of no real background be the ?tall, dark,…
A few years ago, many people were surprised to find out that TV producer Mark Burnett was teaming up with his wife Roma Downey to create a series about the Bible. The episodes were aired on History and featured top-notch set design, recognizable actors/actresses, and generally enthusiastic responses from the viewing audience. After the series…
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 in their faces because that is the kind…
If I mention the word Lego, what?s the first thing that comes to mind?? For some people, that word refers to plastic bricks that are an absolute nuisance to bare feet if stepped upon.? Others may be whisked away to childhood and hours on the floor creating houses, spaceships, or a myriad of other things.?…
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 forty-year-old slackers can stop them.? If that sounds wildly entertaining –…
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 character – usually a child – loses a…
