This has been a particularly hard winter for me. Never have I longed so much for spring. When folks ask me why, I usually respond that this one has been particularly cold, and enduring those kinds of temperatures has worn me down. But as I think about it more, I think it goes deeper than that. These...

The long-anticipated Watchmen is out today—and everyone’s got an opinion. What is Watchmen? An adaptation by 300 director Zack Snyder of a graphic novel of the same name by Alan Moore (author) and Dave Gibbons (illustrator). Now, this isn’t just any graphic novel. It could be said to be the gr...

1. Above is the latest Terminator: Salvation trailer , which reveals some interesting aspects about the upcoming film—at least according to film critic Peter Chattaway who writes about some interesting parallels between the Terminator and Star Trek films (which also has a new installment on the wa...

Dr. Mark Greene is dying, and in some of his final moments he looks up to see his daughter Rachel standing beside his bed. Mark: Hi. Rachel: Hi. Mark: I was just dreaming about you. Rachel: You were? Mark: The way you used to love balloons. Remember how much you loved balloons? Rachel: No. Mark: I u...

"And then we artists who are trying to be God's speakers do a worse job than the atheists. Maybe it's because it's hard to be as steely real as one needs to be writing about God and his people when you are at the same time unconsciously wanting to be God's spin meister." --an insightful comment by a...

I was pretty sick last week , and the house got really messy. As I was cleaning up earlier this week, I ran across a curious thing in our kitchen area. I had a couple of things to put away in a cupboard where my kids keep their craft supplies and was a surprised to see a rubber band wrapped around i...

This one somehow slipped by me. Mutant Chronicles is an independent sci-fi film staring the likes of Ron Perlman and John Malkovich that premiered in the UK in October 2008 and will be available in the States on video-on-demand at the end of March, followed by a limited theatrical release in April. ...

Last week, I got sick . The sickest I’ve been in a long time. The kind of sick where time seems to stop and the only thing you can do is move from the couch to the bathroom and back to the couch again. Well, I am on the recovering end now and feeling a bit more like me (though a still somewhat exh...

Jack and Ben are in the church after meeting with the mysterious Eloise Hawkings (who’s also Daniel Farraday’s mother) in the Dharma station beneath the building. Ben stands by a painting of Thomas touching the wounds of Jesus. Ben: When Jesus wanted to return to Judea knowing that he would prob...

We recently saw last year’s Wanted (which is up for a couple awards this Sunday ), a film loosely based a comic miniseries and centers on a young man’s recruitment into a secret group of assassins who get their targets from a device of Fate. As Peter Chattaway (who just got a new gig —congratu...