"Living right in the middle of the city, there is a good chance you’ll bump into the family man at the local grocery store."

Todd VanDerWerff wrote a primer for all seven movies earlier today that actually made me interested in seeing them. It seems like this series went from being a joke to a critical darling overnight.

He's always been the show's strongest asset.

"As flies to wanton boys are we to th' gods; they kill us for their sport."

One of my favorite Zombies songs. The lead vocalist and keyboard player are still making music, and their last album was actually fantastic.

I just want to know where Wallace at.

Thematically, though, NOAH was a brilliant summation of the entire book of Genesis.

Speaking as a guy, a lot of us find Hugh Jackman really attractive. A few months ago a friend of mine asked me to list the three hottest male actors. I told her, George Clooney, Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman.

But that's not how it used to be… { pulls out guitar; starts whistling }

I don't even think Libby Hill wrote *this* column.

There was a great article in the Atlantic yesterday about how Sufjan has succeeded as a Christian musician, largely by not marketing himself as a Christian musician. His focus is on the music rather than on selling a message.

I do love his Christmas music, particularly his very non-traditional arrangement of Angels We Have Heard on High.

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

Jon Hamm will finally get that Emmy, for Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

The title of this article is a little confusing, since the Siege of Masada isn't actually in the Bible.

Favorite Sufjan song? Mine has always been Casimir Pulaski Day.

Our Mrs. Reynolds and Jaynestown might be my favorite episodes of Firefly.

I'm about a third of the way through the first one. So far the consensus seems to be that you can safely stop after Book 4 or 5.

Yep, I *love* that movie.

Everyone I've ever spoken to has said the opposite - they liked the beginning but found the second half tedious. I appreciate the end, though, because it's full of this weirdly post-modern meta-narrative and it exposes the dangers of fantasy thinking in a way that's almost tragic.