The Author's Files

With the possible exceptions of Avengers , Avatar , or any reboot directed by J.J. Abrams , whenever a Hollywood blockbuster trades log...

Unmerited reviews of some terrible movies about terrible people doing terrible things to other marginally less terrible people. Blake Lively...

Channeling Job in a pensive rumination on the problem of pain, A Serious Man may be the Coen Brothers' most challenging film, both exc...

This being the final chapter of an epic trilogy of things that Saddleback professor Lawrence Twicken says. The great thing about taking cla...

I don’t often learn anything new in liberal arts classes, but when I do, it’s a revelatory experience.  Such an awakening occurred du...