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Why God’s Not Dead is Going to Fail

The new Christian film “God’s Not Dead” will fail because its unsympathetic portrayal of atheists reduces from a potential conversation starter to a piece of insider-propaganda.

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American History Featured Movies

The Film That Changed Movie Dialogue Forever

His Girl Friday may be the fastest talking movie in history. Either way, it changed movie dialogue.

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Featured Movies Pop Culture

The Failure of 300: Rise of an Empire

If you liked 300, you’ll probably enjoy Rise of the Empire well enough. But it’s as thoughtless as the original.

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Coolsville Featured Pop Culture

A Public Service Announcement from… THE BATMAN

I ran across this in this post from Chris Sims about why the X-Men didn’t become popular for more than a decade after their creation. I know, that’s a Batman PSA. But it all makes sense in the article. Really, it does.

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Coolsville Featured Movies Pop Culture

The Transformers 4 Trailer Paradox

The new Transformers: Extinction trailer looks really good. Which is sad because it’s obviously going to be as terrible as the others.

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Coolsville Pop Culture TV

This documentary about Thundarr the Barbarian is well worth 18 minutes

I loved  Thundarr the Barbarian when I was a kid. For those of you who have the misfortune of a Thundarr-less childhood, he was a barbarian warrior who lived in a future Earth and had adventures with a sorceress and a Chewbacca-like alien thing named Ookla. Character designs by Alex Toth and Jack Kirby! Neat!  

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Movies Pop Culture

Harold Ramis on the Meaning of Groundhog Day

Any fan of movies over the past two generations was probably sad like me to hear of the death of comedic legend Harold Ramis on February 24th. He wrote, directed, and performed in some of the funniest films of my life. Most people first think of his signature role as Dr. Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters, […]

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Coolsville Pop Culture

Two ideas to spice up the 2018 winter Olympics

I’m Greek, so my opinions on the Olympics carry extra weight.

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Coolsville Pop Culture

Check out these awesome Batman villain redesigns by M.S. Corley

It’s no secret that we’re huge fans of M.S. Corley here at Norville Rogers.

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Books Faith

BURN by Julianna Baggott (or the Problem with being Pure)

Burn is Julianna Baggott’s final installment in the PURE trilogy. It’s an outstanding, life-affirming conclusion to a top-notch trilogy that is profoundly human.