I think of myself as a reasonably tough guy, allowing for advancing age and decreasing height. I’ve risked my neck a couple of times rescuing women — one from a purse robber, another from a violent boyfriend. But I’ve never…
There’s a new Transformers movie, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. Although reviewers diverge on the specifics, they generally agree that it sucks. To some, Pete Davidson — the voice of Mirage — is “hilarious” and doing what “may be his…
In 1954, Warner Brothers released Dial M for Murder, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and adapted by Frederick Knott from his own play, which had done well on the West End and Broadway. And boy, could you tell that this flick…
The long-awaited film adaptation of Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. provides a powerful reminder of the true meaning of becoming a woman to a world that glorifies faux “women” like Lia Thomas and Dylan Mulvaney. Adapting…
Think The Silence of the Lambs mixed with The Exorcist and Primal Fear. Blend and stir in some The Screwtape Letters with modern disbelief. The result? A gripping new movie that lives up to its hype: Nefarious. The plot is simple. A supposed sociopathic murderer named…
On Thursday, February 23, the two-week-long, nonstop religious revival at tiny Asbury University in rural Wilmore, Kentucky saw its official end. Starting with about 20 students who stayed after a regular campus chapel service, tens of thousands had been drawn…
I have not watched the Super Bowl (or NFL league play) for years, ever since Colin Kaepernick and his cohort of stooges and ingrates persuaded me that I despise too many of those overpaid, undereducated lunks to care. I likewise…
The franchise of Bond, James Bond has suffered the same fate as some other companies in corporate America: it has lost its brand identity due to a lack of focus. It is both confused and confusing. And the franchise has…
The other day, after watching the 2015 Swedish movie A Man Called Ove for the first time — an experience punctuated, not infrequently, by both laughs and tears — I looked up Rolf Lassgård, the wonderful actor who plays the…
