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Norman is a kid with no close friends at school, but he does know a lot of dead people. Of course, neither his parents nor his older sister nor his schoolmates believe he can talk with the departed, but it … Continue reading
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In the late 1990s a writing student named Jim Butcher was urged by his teacher (author Deborah Chester) to set aside the medieval fantasies he’d been working on and try something in a modern setting. As Butcher said in a … Continue reading
Jack Pearl is little remembered today, but in the early days of radio he was famous for playing Baron Munchausen, a character with a thick German accent who would recount ludicrous adventures he claimed to have had, responding to skepticism … Continue reading
A number of independent opinion polls conducted over the past several decades have noted a significant increase in the fraction of adult Americans who don’t consider themselves members of any religion. For example, in 2014 the nonreligious accounted for 21 … Continue reading
(Update: I see I managed to post this review twice in slightly different form. The later version is here. I’ll leave both in place to avoid possible broken links.) One of my numerous character flaws is a tolerance for cheap … Continue reading
(Update: I see I somehow managed to post this review twice, more recently here. I’ll leave both in place to avoid possible broken links.) This is the first of a series of movies adapted from a popular trilogy of young … Continue reading
(Update: I see I managed to post this review twice. I’ll leave both in place to avoid possible broken links. The later version is here, but except for possible typos I don’t think there are any differences.) James Franco plays … Continue reading
(Update: I see I managed to post this review twice. I’ll leave both in place to avoid broken links. The other version is here, but with the possible exception typos I don’t think there are any differences.) Ben Affleck and … Continue reading
(Update: I see I managed to post this review twice several months apart with slight differences. I’ll leave both in place to avoid possible broken links. The later version is here.) This is a fun space opera with a nice … Continue reading
(Update: I somehow managed to post this review twice in slightly different form. The later version, with an additional clip of an interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson about the science in the film, can be found here, but I’m leaving … Continue reading