As a child, I used to play with my Star Wars action figures every chance I got. My parents sensed my enthusiasm for The Force, so Christmas morning at my house was like an annual unveiling of the latest action figure George Lucas commissioned. I’d go over to my pal John’s house and we’d stage the most epic-sized, off-the-wall Star Wars melodramas we could imagine. This is … [Read more...] about RIDDICK New Movie Review
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YOURE NEXT New Movie Review
It happens at least once a year. A horror film premieres at a film festival and emerges surrounded by such buzz that it becomes a gotta-see-it phenomenon. The problem is you can’t always trust the word of mouth from an audience. I once suffered through a horror fest screening of Chillerama, a movie even the most forgiving horror fans have noted to be a new low for the genre. … [Read more...] about YOURE NEXT New Movie Review
Your Horoscope
Aries (March 21-April 19) We all need filters; they help us cope with our world, which is often over-stimulating. Unfortunately, when they get too intense, it’s like wearing dark sunglasses at night. For months at a time, no one penetrates the self-induced haze except the tiny minority you find cute or compelling at a glance. That’s why it’s important to periodically shed those … [Read more...] about Your Horoscope
Your Horoscope
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Occasionally, I suffer from hypermanifestation: I can hardly mention something without it entering my life. I made an allusion to a skunk, and hours later I came face to stink-hole with one. I briefly recalled (aloud) a momentary encounter with someone and suddenly, he appeared. My best response to this condition is to mention things I’d really … [Read more...] about Your Horoscope
Christ Returns And Wedding Blues and Football Follies
CAUGHT ON VIDEO: CHRIST’S RETURN “If the Messiah descends from the Mount of Olives as foretold in the Bible,” wrote the Los Angeles Times in an October dispatch from Jerusalem, the two largest Christian television networks in the U.S. promise to cover the arrival live from a hilltop in the city. Daystar Television has already been beaming a 24/7 webcam view, and Trinity … [Read more...] about Christ Returns And Wedding Blues and Football Follies