In this episode: How we celebrated Christmas (0:00) Find out which StoryMan (men?!) hasn’t read The Hobbit! (4:15) What stories we loved (and hated) in 2012 (13:00) Our writing projects in the New Year (26:45) Balancing busy schedules (37:30) What’s the deal with Resolutions? (43:15) We need your help! (53:00) In the New Year, what […]
Who’s that there stumbling around in the dark? The question, from a slaver’s lips, opens Quinten Tarantion’s newest and most audacious film to date, Django Unchained. The film is shocking and divisive, mostly because of how starkly it portrays the evils of slavery, complete with liberal use of the “n-word” and Samuel L. Jackson’s controversial […]
Vengeance was his and he gave me back my life! Damned if I’ll live in the debt of a thief Damned if I’ll yield at the end of the chase I am the law and the law is not mocked. — Javert, “Javert’s Soliloquy,” Les Miserables Les Miserables is the newest theatrical version of the […]
Did you know that the nativity scene is a lie? The wise men weren’t there. When they did show up there were probably more than 3 of them, Jesus wasn’t a newborn, and the king ordered one of the most horrific massacres in all of recorded history, a Christmas bloodbath that would make Stephen King cringe. The actual […]
2012 is coming to a close, and as usual looking back over my to 10 posts is mostly an exercise in film reviews. But the few surprises are interesting indeed. Without further ado, here are my 10 most popular posts from the past year: 10. Good News: The Avengers Just Ruined Super Hero Movies The […]
Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes! The StoryMen welcome special guest Tifah Phillips, lead singer & head honcho of Page CXVI and The Autumn Film. In this episode: The results of the cutthroat StoryMen Holiday Wars How you get a song on the Twilight soundtrack Whether those Twilight vampires are actual vampires or not (spoiler: they’re not) […]
I finally watched the truly outstanding film Of Gods and Men last night. If you haven’t seen it, watch it. I was blown away. The film is about a group of French Trapist monks living in Algeria in 1996 when the Civil War breaks out. They refuse to leave, even though their lives are threatened by […]
How well do you know the names of animal congregations? Sure, most of know about a herd of elephants, colony of ants, or even a murder of crows. You might even know that lions travel in a pride or that porcupines move in a prickle. But did you know that a group of sparrows is a host, flies […]
My friend Shawn Smucker is a great writer. His brand new book How to Use a Runaway Truck Ramp tells the story of the cross country journey he took this past year with his wife Maile and their four kids. They had no idea how much the trip would change them. As someone who just […]
For anyone who’s ever tried seriously to read the Bible, the gap between our 21st century American culture and the ancient world of the Scriptures has proven to be very challenging, if not outright impossible. Plenty of earnest Christians have tried to understand the Scriptures only to be thwarted by the Levirate Law or unspoken […]