It’s hard to find a good love story these days. Modern choices either give us the sugary sweet Rom-Com or the overtly sexualized fantasy. Relationships don’t get a lot of truthful representation in films right now. But The One I…

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Last week, I experienced a little taste of what I think heaven will be like.  It tasted like an abandoned motel and a flat tire. Let me explain. If you read last week’s post, you’ll know that I took my family…

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I have to start this out with some honesty. This list won’t be everyone’s list. I tried to do a true “Top 5 Most Quotable,” but found that I could not find any agreement between various websites, friends, or, even…

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Sci-Fi and horror are two unique dramas that allow filmmakers the space to create movies with unique visuals, obviously. But, it also gives filmmakers an alternate way to deal with complex inner-life and outer-life issues. From the meta realities of…

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If you grew up in a big city or metro area, like I did in the Milwaukee metro, graffiti and graffiti art was an ubiquitous part of the urban landscape. Even when I lived in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, about as…

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On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: We definitely had our doubts about Disney making a live-action version of this age-old tale, but instead of giving it the reinterpretation or revisionist treatment, they simply gave us the story…

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After predicting the box office success of Furious 7, I feel on a roll to make another, bolder prediction. This weekend, you have, what I am hoping and thinking, will be the best Sci-FI movie of 2015. Needless to say, I…

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When we scheduled a family trip to our nation’s capital for this week, we had no idea that we were coming while the city was closed for repairs.  The Capitol Dome: under scaffolding for restoration.  The National Mall: a dirt…

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A couple of weeks ago I got the chance to do an extended review of the very high quality documentary by Jess Moss, The Overnighters, over at Reel Thinking. For those of you who might have missed it, here is that review…

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Opening this week in wide release is the new Sci-Fi movie Ex Machina starring Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, and Alicia Vikander as the sentient A.I. female, Ava. This is the directorial debut of Alex Garland, the writer of 28 Days Later… and one…

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