Perhaps the low budget and crappy special effects are an homage to where the series started. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Actually, I'd say that we won the war pretty handily, but lost the peace.

I quit collecting comic books over 15 years ago, but Kingdom Come really stands out in my memory as a breathtaking work of art, both visually and in terms of story.

With the Lethal Weapon movies I can't help but acknowledge that while Shane Black's writing is excellent, it's the chemistry between Gibson and Glover that really animate the films. Gibson's role is a lot harder to sell, I think—it's hard to pull off depressed nihilism with a genuinely compelling veneer of charisma. …

My other son is also named Molgrew.

Oh, I hope it is.

Well, they were until Night of the Long Knives.

Redeemer Presbyterian in Manhattan (aka Tim Keller's Church) has jazz worship services every Sunday evening. It's pretty good.

That's warmly affirming (and I quite appreciate the sentiment) . . . and yet deep down, I don't believe that's true.

As a Christian who listens to "genre" Christian music, sometimes stuff like this leaves me really conflicted. On one hand, I'm frankly embarrassed about a lot of Christian culture, because it's clearly Bad Art. On the other hand, some Christian music really speaks to and even moves me, and I can't quite tell if I'm…

As it happens, my first concert ever was Carmen.

Mars Hill is an interesting case for a variety of reasons, and I suspect it's a complex mix of good and bad. Driscoll himself clearly has a lot of issues, and part of the reason the church broke apart was that it was too closely tied to him personally. Christianity is potent in part because it's way bigger than any…

Watchmen is a classic case of a film that embodies the very thing it strives to provide metacommentary on.

Oh, they wanted to, but it was too hard.

*Grim voice* It's ALL fake . . . except for wrestling.

Did this young girl claim she recognized them from their time in Korea together, causing Weiner to angrily claim that she had mistaken him for someone else?

Actually, his ego is inflated, and thus is quite buoyant. The cables are just to keep the stage from floating away in the wash of hot air.

I have appeared in this comments section purely to remark that until now, I was completely unaware how much Emeril Lagasse resembles Antonin Scalia.

Eh, I think it's reasonable that public association between a children's entertainer and anything sexual is considered creepy. I ain't saying he should have been banished from civil society or anything, just that I can understand why people would be uncomfortable with him around their kids.

My prediction is that the type of people who would get really upset about this sort of thing are not the sort of people who would really love A Wrinkle In Time.