Guardians of the Galaxy review: The death of storytelling? 'In Medias res' is the Latin translation of the phrase: "in the midst of things" and is a concept flouted among storytellers as the paramount virtue of the craft; the ability to start a story in the middle of the action. In the common vernacular another…
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What Ender’s Game can teach us about current conflicts in Ferguson, Gaza, ISIS
This weekend my wife and I watched Ender's Game with some friends. The movie, based upon the Orson Scott Card novelĀ of the same name, is set in Earth's future and is about a young man named Ender Wiggin who is in a military style school for gifted young people aspiringĀ to be the next Commander of…
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Old Movie Review: The Awful Truth
Old Movie Reviews: The Awful Truth. When I initially put together this blog category, I thought it would be interesting to comment on movies that were not exactly new. Thus the "Old Movie" title. With my schedule and my tendency to begrudgingly part with money, I do not get to the theater too often to…
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OMR: Legend of Hercules
I had originally intended the "Old Movie Reviews" category to be just that: reviews of older movies. However, this past weekend I saw a movie so incredible that I just had to write a review of it. I wrote last week of my utter joy and exultation at watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The…
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