Happy 30th Birthday, The Princess Bride! Celebrate the legacy of this modern classic with our look at a peculiar sort of pursuit.

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It would be difficult to find someone who doesn’t have some sort of immediate reaction (positive or negative) to hearing the phrase Dungeons and Dragons.  The many incarnations of the popular role-playing game have sparked both joy and fear in…

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3D hits its 3rD episode! Ryan and David are gonna wreck it with the Disney classic, Wreck-It Ralph, investigating what it tells us about identity. Links: Wreck-It Ralph trailer: youtu.be/87E6N7ToCxs Want to subscribe? RSS Podcast Feed (with your podcast program…

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An earlier version of this post originally appeared on Redeeming Culture’s ancestor site, Zoettrope, on February 20, 2012, but has been updated and edited for posting here. Of course, there are spoilers. Enjoy! How do you explain The Princess Bride? You…

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Welcome to a new Redeeming Culture feature!  Stream Powered gives a once-over to new and upcoming Netflix and Amazon Prime releases, seeking to redeem your season binges for Christ. Note: this article will spoil 2012’s The Avengers, as well as season 1…

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Obi-Wan Kenobi.  Albus Dumbledore.  Gandalf the Grey.  Yinsen.  What do these characters all have in common (besides an awesome white beard)? They all died. Specifically, they all died before the quest could be completed, or in some cases before it…

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Star Wars is a cultural institution in modern society.  Most people have seen it; many more than that could identify “Luke, I am your father” as a part of it (which is a misquote, by the way); virtually everyone has heard…

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My family has always been a fan of genre fiction.  My mother is a fantasy fanatic and my father schooled me in the ways of science fiction.  The story of their first date (to see Star Wars in first run) is…

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When I was younger, Christmas was when my parents would buy me the latest Pokémon game, and some of my favorite December memories as a child were of playing my brand new copy of Pokémon Red or Gold in the…

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“All right.  No, I’ve got it.  Here’s how we save the entire video game industry.  So, there’s a giant turtle-dinosaur-dragon thing, all right?  And he kidnaps a plumber’s princess girlfriend.  So now the plumber has to go rescue her, but…

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