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Is “Scream 4” Any Good? – A Movie Review
Scream 4 (2011) has Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbell) returning to the town of Woodsboro only to start witnessing, darn it, a new crop of brutal murders at the hands of "Ghost Face". The story here is stupid and there is so much carnage it gets tedious, but that...
Neal P Hutto – Tulsa Oklahoma Hipster – A Tribute.
This post goes out to my good friend and musical colleague Neal Hutto. We were hipsters back in the day and remained good friends throughout the 90s and beyond till his death in 2010. Our History To occupy the resources of the Federal Agents I now offer the...
Adult Farce: “Bridesmaids” – A Movie Review
The Judd Apatow-produced Bridesmaids (2011) is a dandy comedy finally marred by sentimentality and the repulsiveness of the character played by Melissa McCarthy. Oh, and there's also Kristen Wiig's mugging as she enacts Annie, a nigh fortyish woman whose life goes to...
France’s Superb “Of Gods and Men” – A Movie Review
Xavier Beauvois's Of Gods and Men (2010) tells the true story of several French monks in Algeria who were taken hostage and later murdered by Muslim terrorists. (It happened in 1996.) Two of the eight of them escaped. The monks are very admirable, truly Christian...
Back to Lonergan’s Triumph: “You Can Count on Me” – A Movie Review
The playwright Kenneth Lonergan has written and directed the 2000 You Can Count on Me, a decent motion picture about a brother-and-sister relationship. Pleasant Sammy (Laura Linney) is a churchgoing small-town resident who works at a bank and is a single mother. Her...
Star Trek – Fist Fight – Kirk and Picard.
You hipster's like Star Trek? Have you ever thought what would happen if Captain's Kirk and Picard had a fistfight? So do you have some time? Let's consider these old Star Trek debates. Space Debates Star Trek vs. Star Wars Who's the hottest? Counselor or Doctor....
Re the Film Version of “Atlas Shrugged”
I need to see Atlas Shrugged, Part 1 (2011) a second time before I can make a suitable judgment about it. I believe it to be weak in many ways, but as a motion picture it's also unique and possibly acceptable. (I have no interest in reading the Ayn Rand novel.) "The...
Agora Movie Review
Directed by Alexander Amenabar, Agora stars Rachel Weisz as the philosopher, mathematician, and martyr Hypatia of Alexandria, whose history has long been muddled and contested since the limited release of the film. Many Christians including Catholic evangelist Rev....
There’s Nothing Like “The Elementary Particles” – A Book Review
I'm not quite sure why French author Michel Houellebecq put a lot of sex in his novel, The Elementary Particles (2000) except that the book does impart the familiar message that no salvation lies in either sex or science. Houellebecq's two main characters are Michel,...
