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Smile But Don’t Touch
Ever heard of a Quokka? No? Well it’s only a cute grinning critter that’s part of the latest and greatest selfie trend on Instagram right
Pitcher Fires Fastball at Twitter Trolls: 3 Lessons for the Rest of Us
As painful as it has always been for its victims, bullying used to be something that could be escaped by reaching the front door of
The Sun’ll Come Out … in Tomorrowland?
Disney just released a new trailer for Tomorrowland, a movie slated to hit theaters May 22. Starring George Clooney, Hugh Laurie (House), Britt Robertson and
Chappie Chugs to Championship, Chump Change
Chappie, Neill Blomkamp’s emotional robot, learned another particularly human lesson this weekend: What it feels like to win for losing. While Chappie took the weekend’s
How a Movie Birthed an Art Form (And Tarnished a Nation)
A century ago this week, New Yorkers began lining up to watch The Birth of a Nation. Though the country was still more than a
Chappie, Meet Ultron
Later on today, we’ll be publishing our review of Chappie, the latest sci-fi thinkpiece from Neill Blomkamp (Elysium and District 9). I’ll be interested to
Tales of a Third Grade Celebrity
Way, way back in the day—1972, to be precise—Judy Blume published a children’s novel called Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. To be honest, even though
The Drop Box Drops Today
Focus on the Family in conjunction with Kindred Image release their new documentary The Drop Box today through Fathom Events. The film is an intimate
A Conversation with Teen Screen Expert Dr. Kathy Koch
Each year around early December, Focus on the Family re-airs a dozen of its most popular radio broadcasts (out of 260). On that short list
Focus on the Box Office
There was a time that someone could’ve filmed Will Smith eating breakfast, put the footage in theaters and made a cool $100 mil. And while
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