Reacher
I won’t speculate about how Amazon Studios’s Reacher will play for those unfamiliar with Lee Child’s books or fans of the Tom Cruise films based on the same character. I… Continue reading "Reacher"
Category: Television
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Poetry in America, Season 3
I tell my students that I am a prose guy, not a poetry guy. So the fact that I enjoy PBS’s weekly lessons about famous American poems should reassure anyone… Continue reading "Poetry in America, Season 3"
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Cobra Kai — Season 3
Whether you are a critic, a fan, or something in-between, you have no doubt experienced the delicious pleasure of discovering a show or a band or a film before it… Continue reading "Cobra Kai — Season 3"
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Babylon Berlin
Although 2020 has seen a limited number of theatrical film releases, it has nevertheless provided cinephiles with many options for DVD and streaming experiences. For fans of Tom Tykwer, Kino… Continue reading "Babylon Berlin"
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Jesus: His Life (2019)
There is a scene early in the first episode of Jesus: His Life, where Robert Cargill cavalierly announces that the census which requires Joseph to take Mary to Bethlehem on… Continue reading "Jesus: His Life (2019)"
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Poetry in America
I've wondered many times since then if my own abiding ambivalence about poetry stems less from some intellectual or spiritual defect and more from being forced to study poetry before anyone was ready to really teach me and I was ready to really learn it.
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An American Conscience: Reinhold Niebuhr Story
While Niebuhr coined one of the most quoted Christian prayers in recent history, the Serenity Prayer, many young people such as myself have never been exposed to him in their general education, despite being from a Christian household.
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3 Days of Terror: The Charlie Hebdo Attacks (Reed, 2016)
In fifty-nine exhausting minutes, the film deftly interweaves archival footage of Paris in January of 2015. In a seventy-two hour span, attacks from ISIS and Al-Qaeda targeted the offices of Charlie Hebdo and a related standoff at a kosher supermarket in the same city.
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The Churchmen — Season 1, Episode 7 Recap
The series does tend to lean a little heavily on the contrast between individual faith (good) and institutional structures (bad, bad, bad).
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The Churchmen — Season 1, Episode 5 Recap
What makes a melodrama different from a soap opera?