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Jackie Brown (1997) was Quentin Tarantino's third feature. It was bound to disappoint some fans (which it did), but it's my favorit...

Here's the conclusion to Conor Friedersdorf's excellent piece arguing that by taking aim at symbolic Wall Street (which many Ameri...

I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me. Psalm 57:2 (KJV) With typical Puritan thoroughness John Flavel m...

In the last few years I've come to understand why the world considers football (the one where using your hands is frowned on) the beauti...

Quote from John Walton, The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate (pp. 146-7): The fourth commandment directs...

I completely get that illegal immigration is a big problem. Living in South Florida I see the effects on everything from law enforcement to ...

Paris, Texas (dir. Wim Wenders, 1984)

I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish...

Loathing is not too strong a word for how I feel about Rush Limbaugh's show. Interesting, since it wasn't too many years ago that I ...

From Tony Manero to Vincent Vega. . . Saturday Night Fever (dir. John Badham, 1977) Pulp Fiction (dir. Quentin Tarantino, 1994)