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The Robo-Future is Here … With Your Turn-Down Service
Are you one of those who’ve been staunchly steering clear of all those techy thingamajigs and touch-tablet whiz-bangs? You know, maybe holing up in your
Impossible Speeds to Improbable Win
For years, the box office trajectory of movies based on comic-book superheroes has been as reliable as death and taxes. And for the makers, the
An Entertainment Adventure in Garage Saling
As we do almost every year, my wife and I spent vacation time in July visiting our out-of-state daughter. And although you’ll probably find this
Taking Your Dating Cues from Hollywood
Earlier this week, Lisa Anderson, director of young adults for Focus on the Family and host of the wildly popular and incredibly entertaining The Boundless
Impossible Franchise Refuses to Take Vacation
Mission: impossible? When it comes to collecting cash from weekend moviegoers, call it mission: inevitable. Riding Tom Cruise’s seemingly eternally young coattails, Mission: Impossible –
Rock’s Not (Quite) Dead … and Why That Matters
Last September, KISS bassist, entrepreneur and reality TV star Gene Simmons became the latest in a long line of voices to loudly lament, “Rock is
The Terrible Tubes
Grayson Dobra was about to turn 2. His mother, L’erin, wanted to throw him a party he’d never forget (or, at least not for for a day
Please Fix My Tone, Watson
Listen up, boneheads, and you might actually learn something. Now, if I were a particularly tone-deaf individual, I might actually think that the above sentence
Ant-Man Gets Small, Pixels Smaller
It’s often said that movies make subjects larger than life. But this week, the movies at the local Cineplex looked a little … smaller. Ant-Man,
Getting Real (Fictionally, of Course)
Comedian Jim Gaffigan recently launched his very own sitcom titled, perhaps a bit uncreatively, The Jim Gaffigan Show. It’s on TV Land, and the show’s
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