Category: Archive
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The Batman (2022): When a Story Doesn’t Match Your Character
If the character you’re presenting and the character they need to be for the story you’re showing don’t line up, there’s dissonance. One or the other will get compromised.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: 20th Anniversary Edition
But whether this book stays true or is one day proven false, I will adapt to my circumstances. We all do. And that, according to Jared Diamond, makes us uniquely human.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once: Kindness Is Key
Whether or not it wins best picture, it’s an amazing movie and a stellar performance by Ke Huy Quan, an actor who deserves his time in the sun.
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La La Land: Fantastical Reality
In one, life is a dream; in the other, they obtain their dreams. Which is better? Fantasy, or reality?
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Les Misérables (The Wretched): Volume Two
“My child, what you are carrying is very heavy for you. Give it to me. I will carry it for you.”
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The Chosen: Season 3
This season did a season-long story right. It has themes and interconnection and idea progression through plot. And if you don’t know what that means, it means it’s good.
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The Chosen: Season 2
There’s so much good to this show. So much fun and life and energy and vision. I just hope it doesn’t eventually buckle under its own weight.
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The Chosen: Season 1
As it leans into a particular part of who we know Jesus to be, the show makes choices. It’s those choices in particular that interest me both as a Christian and as a lover of entertainment.
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The Arcadian Wild
The Arcadian Wild is where entertainment meets expression, science meets art, and sacred meets skepticism.
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Les Misérables (The Wretched): Volume One
It is your soul that I buy from you; I withdraw it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.
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