Category: Movies

A Little Horror Exorcise

On Friday, Bob Hoose posted about why our society has a collective yen for horror flicks. It is a curious phenomenon: None of us love

Movie Monday: Puss in Boots

Leave it to a swashbuckling, animated cat to do a little trick-or-treating this Halloween weekend. Puss in Boots, a spinoff from DreamWorks’ Shrek series, flouted

Screeching with a Mouthful of Popcorn

Well, it’s Halloween time again. Jack-o-lanterns are in the windows, fake cobwebs are strung over the doorframes and Paranormal Activity 3 is raking in big

Movie Monday: Paranormal Activity 3

For weeks, the box office has felt fairly … dispirited. Oh, sure, we’ve dutifully reported the weekly winners in this space every Monday, but let’s

Movie Monday: Real Steel Still Real Deal

Hollywood may get weak in the knees over 1980s remakes, but the movie-going public thinks they’re just plain weak. Or at least that’s my interpretation

Cutting Loose, Then and Now

It’s easy to get all misty-eyed about the past. After all, we don’t call them the “good ol’ days” for nothing. But memory is a

Movie Monday: Real Steel

Et tu, Hugh? Real Steel, the Hugh Jackman-fronted action flick, KO’d George Clooney’s The Ides of March to win the box office trophy this week.

Movie Monday: Dolphin Tale

Aak! Aaa-aa-aak! Klaa-aaak! For those of you who don’t speak dolphin, those series of squeaks and clicks translate to, “Take that, you bipedal excuses for

Having the Courage to Be Preached To

If you’ve tuned in to any kind of Christian media in the last week or so, you probably already know that the latest movie from

Not 127 Hours, but Would You Believe 96?

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