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Broadening the (Jurassic) World
If nothing else, the latest (and final) trailer for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has definitely told a lot more story than that first trailer (which seemed to take place solely on the island from the first movie. The question is: … Continue reading
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Settling Into a Quiet Place
The folks at Vanity Fair recently posted a great clip of John Krasinski “breaking down” of the earliest scenes of his recent movie, A Quiet Place. The movie really is as good as reviews are saying. I think I had … Continue reading
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Where All Roads Lead?
There’s this semi-interesting online debate about whether Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD is the best superhero show on network television or the worst. I’m not quite sure how I feel about the conversation. While the show hasn’t quite fit the niche … Continue reading
Solo Story Glory
The second full trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story had to do one thing: make the movie much bigger and louder and unexpected that what we saw of the Super Bowl trailer a few months ago. Here’s what we … Continue reading
World Poetry Day via Middle Earth
In honor of today as “World Poetry Day,” some poetry from Middle Earth commemorating the fall of Gandalf at Khazad Dum in The Fellowship of the Ring. Frodo, nephew of the great story-teller, writes: When evening in the Shire was … Continue reading
Rioting and Dancing, Building and Fighting
Last night I had the opportunity to view The Riot and the Dance, a nature documentary directed by one of my favorite writers, N. D. Wilson. I’d known of the documentary’s existence for a while, but didn’t think it would … Continue reading
Harry Potter and the Resurrection
Today brought the third quarter of the school year to a close. The quarter both started and ended with a chapel (which I think is pretty rare). After spending most of the quarter with different speakers walk through the fruit … Continue reading
Imagination Under Fire?
After the fourth grade-level camp of the year, I made my way to the theater to catch a showing of (the very well-made) Black Panther. Lots of good trailers beforehand. One that wasn’t there, though, was the March-dropping Ready Player … Continue reading
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Walker Percy and the 98%
Early in The Moviegoer, Binx Bolling starts talking about “the search” that he finds himself on when he is not too “sunk” into reality. Soon after that initial talk of the search (which I mentioned here), Bolling continues: What do … Continue reading
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Ten Years and Closing
Listen for the comment made by Hemsworth about ten years and things coming to an end . . . I think we have every reason to believe that Avengers 3 and 4 will be complete game-changers for the Marvel Cinematic … Continue reading
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