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Red Band Trailers

I try to keep this site clean and family friendly. To me, that means avoiding profanity and sexual content, and trying to keep violence to a minimum. I do this as a service for my readers, knowing that many of them object to such content, or are offended by it. However, personally I don’t mind [...]

Sneak Preview: The Incredible Hulk

No, it’s not a sequel to Hulk, Ang Lee’s 2003 monstrosity. The Incredible Hulk is a complete reboot of the series. And Marvel is doing its dead level best to get the bad taste out of everyone’s mouth by releasing a myriad of preview clips. If you aren’t sold on the quality of this film, [...]

Cool Stuff: Scrap Metal Sci-fi Sculptures

The folks over at robot-models.com have some pretty cool stuff. They are professional sculptors who use used car and motorcycle parts as well as bolts, nuts and sheet metal to craft some pretty amazing sci-fi replicas. Most of the largest are over 7 feet tall. My favorites were Optimus Prime and Alien.
They have a [...]

Iron Man vs. Batman

I couldn’t resist posting this video after I read the Movie Blog’s 5 ways Iron Man was better than Batman Begins. For the record, I wholeheartedly agree with John’s observations and think that Christopher Nolan will have to take it to the next level with The Dark Knight if he wants to dethrone Iron Man [...]

Headlines: 5-13-08

These are topics that I found interesting but either couldn’t find time to or couldn’t merit a full post for, so I have linked to the originators of the story so you can check it out. WARNING, the links below may not be “safe.” They may contain offensive language or images, and in no way [...]

USA Today Movie Calendar

USA Today launched a interactive summer movie calendar featuring more than 80 films being released from May through August. The simple interface includes plot descriptions, movie stills, trailers and links. Plus after you see the movie you can rate it either see it now, see it on DVD, or save your money. It looks like [...]

Worst Comic Book Movies

The Scene Stealers have a great rundown of the 10 Worst Comic Book Movies I respect this list and will have to post one of my own soon. I’ll be sure to include stinkers like Shaq’s Steel and Hulk from 2003.

Dear God

Ever feel like praying to some vague notion of a higher spiritual force? Yeah, me either. But that is what many people are doing. In fact there is a new website called Dear God where you can publicly submit prayers to the divinity of your choosing. And while no real answers are found, community is [...]

Expelled Preview Screening

If the posters popping up around campus are to be believed, there will be a preview screening at Southern of the new Ben Stein documentary on intelligent design, “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed,” on April 1st. I had trouble believing it at first, It sounds like a cruel prank that Dr. Moore might play on his [...]

Parodied Last Supper

Culture Popped has a fine collection of pop culture Last Supper parodies. Like this one.

2008 Summer Movie Calendar

The summer films of 2008 are shaping up to be some of the most exciting in years. While a handful look like they will be fodder for good theological/cultural discussion, most will be visually electrifying escapist fare. While there aren’t as many sequels as 2007, there are quite a few movies that look absolutely incredible. [...]

Do Hard Things

We often expect more of toddlers than we do of teenagers. They must be held accountable to do hard things for the sake of the gospel.

Five Things to Learn from Harry Potter

A few lessons to be learned from our favorite wizard.

Random Updates

My day-late dollar-short movie quote challenge for this week is up, I think it’s a tough one. And don’t forget to answer Finucane’s too.
If you’re wondering, everything went well with UPS. I should start orientation sometime next week.
I’m leading worship tonight and on Sunday for Parkwood, pray for me and for the church as they [...]

Settling In

Well, we’re mostly unpacked (I still have to find a place for all my books), and the kids are meeting all sorts of friends in the neighborhood. I go tomorrow for a tour of UPS and to have my fingerprints taken so they can find out if I’m really a terrorist or a Columbian drug [...]

Lying Babies

Scientists now recognize that babies as young as six months are capable of the “difficult art of lying.” Difficult? Seemed obvious to me, guess these scientists weren’t parents.

Hyper-Calvinism

Tim Challies attempts to clear up age-old confusion between the biblical doctrines of Calvinism and the ugly heresy of Hyper-Calvinism.

Shaq’s Big Challenge

In case you didn’t know, last night was the premiere of an ABC special series called “Shaq’s Big Challenge.” We all know Shaq is big, but what is so big about the challenge?
Childhood obesity is a fast-growing epidemic in the U.S. And Shaquille O’Neal is trying to take 6 Florida kids from fat to [...]