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These stories have been around a long time. Some of them I have updated. Many of them I haven’t. This started out when blogs were like, new!
Another One From Christian Author Sandra Byrd: “Flirting With Disaster” – A Book Review
Flirting with Disaster (2010) is a likable Christian novel for young people written by Sandra Byrd, the author of The Secret Keeper, which I reviewed on this site. Keeper is mainly for adults, Disaster can be enjoyed by adults as it chronicles the actions of Savvy...
The Sponge As Hero: “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water”
In the 1930s, people had the Marx Brothers for their dose of wild farce. In the early 2000s, they have SpongeBob Squarepants, considerably weirder and even crazier than Groucho and Co. One look at that female squirrel in her Treedome under the sea and you realize...
Report #5 On “Jane the Virgin”
So the arch-villain in Jane the Virgin is a woman---Rose (Bridget Regan). What a campy show this is! And what's this about her husband getting killed by wet cement that Rose deliberately pours on top of him? We love this show for its camp. But in the Chapter 13...
What A Bummer: The 1994 Movie, “Reality Bites”
Reality Bites is trashy inanity not even worth reviewing. Among other absurdities, we are supposed to believe that, after she loses her job at a TV station, Winona Ryder's Lelaina, the valedictorian of her college class, can't even handle a job selling hamburgers at a...
On The “Christian Mingle” Movie – Review #2
Lacey Chabert plays Gwyneth---she whom God is pursuing---in Christian Mingle and is wonderful. She delights by handling comedy even more confidently than she did in Mean Girls, and she is "natural" enough for a romance picture, for the role of lovelorn professional....
Faith And Romantic Longing In “Christian Mingle” (The Movie)
Jesus to His followers: "Ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake." Well, not yet. In America, there is often something different going on. Gwyneth, the chief character in Christian Mingle (2014), signs up with Christian Mingle, an actual dating website...
Seductive? Not Very: “The Seduction of Mimi” (1974)
The way Communist ideology is smiled on in 1974's The Seduction of Mimi, a film by Italy's Lina Wertmuller, is more offensive than the clunky vulgarity here. But I disesteem them both, and I disesteem Wertmuller. That said, I must admit the film is positively...
Taylor Swift 1, Maroon 5 Zero
I keep hearing on the radio a newish Maroon 5 song called "Animals," which sounds a lot like earlier Maroon 5 songs (e.g. "One More Night"), but is actually inferior to them. And here's an example of the lyrics: "But don't deny the animal / That comes alive when I'm...
Film Noir Lives! “The Two Faces of January”
The Two Faces of January (2014) is an old-style thriller, or Technicolor film noir, set in 1962 and dealing with an elegant swindler who unknowingly digs a deep hole for himself and his wife. Original screenplays usually don't tell a story this meritorious, and sure...
