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Box Office Solidarity

For all you Twitter fans out there, it appears there’s something else that your tiny social interaction blurbs can do really well: improve our choices

Miley. Sigh.

I don’t want to write this post. How many times must we talk about Miley Cyrus’ latest indiscretion? When does this tripe stop qualifying as

Movie Monday: Little Fockers

Personally, I don’t see Little Fockers as an ideal way to celebrate Christmas, but loads of people apparently disagreed. The Ben Stiller/Robert De Niro-fronted comedy

Texting Santa

Back when I was a kid, I’d write a letter to Santa nearly every year. I didn’t bother with sending it like most kids did.

Ve Haf Vays of Makink You Buy

Here’s your disturbing thought for the day. There’s a new form of advertising being tested in Germany that won’t let you escape a product’s branding,

Long Live Rankin/Bass

We teach children a lot of things. Most go in one ear and out the other. After all, when you’re 6 years old, it’s hard

Movie Monday: TRON’s Legacy

There are lots of folks who’d say there really is no such thing as an original story, and that all of our books and movies

Movies and Mental Molding

Last weekend I attended our church’s annual Christmas extravaganza. There was a bit of everything, from Handel to jazz, Michael W. Smith to Wagner (if

Hail to the Chief … of Social Media

With 550 million members and counting, Facebook has enough people to be the world’s third largest country. And if you doubt the site’s influence over

Enough to Raise the Dead?

Recently a number of websites were buzzing about a report that director/producer George Lucas (of Star Wars and Indiana Jones fame) was buying up the

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