The Intersection of Faith and Culture
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The biggest sports story in New York City for the third week running is not the Super Bowl winning New York Giants or the NHL Eastern Conference leading New York Rangers. It is the understated and previously unknown New York Knicks point guard Jeremy Lin. Jeremy Lin (otherwise known as […]
The standard of the exploiter is efficiency; the standard of the nurturer is care. Wendell Berry On car rides as a child, I used to watch the countryside out the window. As we traveled along highways that cut through what used to be farmland, I remember seeing old barns, now […]
One single alarming, unlikely thought nagged at me incessantly during Daniel Espinosa’s slick, hyper-edited Training-Day-meets-The-Bourne-Supremacy mash-up Safe House — a thought I never dreamed I’d have: Boy, I really wish Denzel’s usual collaborator Tony Scott had directed this nonsense! For at least Scott, a shameless four-decade veteran of flashy, enjoyable […]
Ask any relationship counsellor, and they will tell you prolonged ruts are detrimental to a healthy romance. How can love be exciting when the couple is simply going through the motions with nary a spark of inspiration or enthusiasm? Sadly, the same charge can be levelled at the Hollywood romantic […]
“They know we’re wounded…” Those ill-omened words, spoken with characteristic gruff solemnity by Liam Neeson during a tense encounter with a hostile wolf pack, strike right to the anguished heart of director Joe Carnahan’s meaty, contemplative survival thriller The Grey. Deceptively marketed as a fist-pumping man vs. nature action flick on […]
It is OK to appreciate the New England Patriots, even if you don’t like them. I had a conversation with a friend the other week about how much an athlete’s likability influenced our ability to appreciate their skill. The conversation revolved around Kobe Bryant — one of the most polarizing […]