Category: Talking Pictures

The Internet Monk on “House, M.D:” What is there for a Christian to like about House, M.D.? For me there has been plenty…. House presents, for once, an unafraid portrayal of our depravity in terms that most of us can relate to: the stony refusal of offered love, the seeming logic of the idolatry of… Continue reading “…the kind of art Christians ought to be producing.”

Seriously. What are they thinking? First it was those Chicken Bacon Cheddar Ranch commercials with Hootie singing the jingle dressed liked an extra from Oklahoma. I kept saying “Ohmygosh! That’s Hootie!” My mother almost did not believe me. I mean it soooo screamed “My career is in the toilet. I needed something on my resume… Continue reading Americans Are From Mars, Burger King’s Ad Agency is From Venus

Remaking Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Tim Burton and Johnny Depp. My children have stated: Tim Burton makes creepy movies, Johnny Depp looks really pale and they don’t like Oompa Loompas and big, round blueberry girls.

*Typed while nursing* Ah, why do I homeschool, let me count the ways. Or you can go see this movie and I won’t have to bother. This movie is perfect example of how kids live up or down to what is expected of them and how at least this particular public school in the film… Continue reading Coach Carter

So, who saw it last night?

I meant to blog about this movie like a month ago when I first saw this, but haven’t had a free arm. Now my children, brothers, father and husband have been reciting I guess you would call them “Napolean-isms” for a month. This movie is silly, is not about anything, has a sort of pointless… Continue reading Napolean Dynamite

I don’t know. I tried to like it because I am such a big Marvel fan, although I have never been a Daredevil fan. The few times the character Elektra bumped into the comics I did read, as a child I thought she had a really cool costume, but was not very nice or interesting.… Continue reading Elektra

Steven has such an endearing request: He is asking us readers of the Aubrey-Maturin series why we like the books. I’ll be coming back to this question myself over the next few weeks. Meanwhile, I’m going to cross-post a review I did of the recent film that touches on some of the things I like… Continue reading Master and Commander: Far Side of the World