Bill Maher addresses silly claims by a variety of prominent conservatives that Christians are heavily persecuted and Christianity on the verge of being criminalized. Funny but also pretty accurate: Link: https://youtu.be/ybH66U72xd0 So why is it that some Christians really do … Continue reading
This sequel to The DaVinci Code (actually based on an earlier novel) has some nice twists and turns, holds the viewer’s interest, and even has scattered comic bits, but the plot makes very little sense. Once again Tom Hanks has … Continue reading
At the end of November in 1917 new chalkboards were installed on top of old ones in a school in Oklahoma City, leaving untouched what had been written and drawn on them. More than 97 years later, a few days … Continue reading
I never watched Firefly when the series originally aired, mainly because the whole idea of mixing spaceships and Westerns struck me as dumb. But later having discovered that the same writer-producer’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer was considerably better than I’d … Continue reading
The story covers a period of nearly three decades in the life of real-life New York mobster Henry Hill (played by Ray Liotta), and the soundtrack features popular songs partly as a hint to the audience about when the events … Continue reading
Complete with unintentional underwater videography. A few successes somehow made it into this compilation. Link: https://youtu.be/RbE6BKJ2drQ by … Continue reading
I’ve only read one of the books in the long-running series of tongue-in-cheek melodramatic novels this is based on, but the movie seems to do a pretty good job of capturing the spirit and style of the source, including the … Continue reading
According to the conventions of meteorology, today, June 1, is the official first day of summer, at least for those of us in north of the tropics. Similarly, autumn starts September 1, winter December 1, and spring March 1. Of … Continue reading