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Update your bookmarks: THIS BLOG HAS MOVED. 3 Jul 2012 | 01:30 am
Looking Closer is setting up shop at Patheos.com. Come on over and check out the new blog, the new neighborhood, and post your thoughts and suggestions.
My 10,000th Tweet is an announcement. 24 Jun 2012 | 01:17 pm
If you read this blog, then you need to see the big news… … in my 10,000th tweet!
Brave (2012) 24 Jun 2012 | 12:53 pm
My review of Brave is published at Seattle Pacific University’s Response magazine.
The most rebellious album I’ve heard all year. 21 Jun 2012 | 01:12 am
Rebellion. It may be the single most distinctive characteristic of new music, generation after generation. From Chuck Berry to Michael Jackson, from the Rolling Stones to Nirvana, from Madonna to Lady...
Number 10,000 20 Jun 2012 | 12:58 pm
Frankly, that number doesn’t mean very much when it comes to Twitter. In fact, 10,000 Tweets is probably something to be embarrassed about. But my 10,000th post on Twitter is going to be unusual… S...
An unexpected pleasure: Snow White and the Huntsman 17 Jun 2012 | 12:07 pm
Well, once in a while, the trailer and even the reviews from my favorite critics let me down. Thanks to my friend Danny Walter for encouraging me to go see a film that all of the marketing, trailers,...
A tour of hell with Miss Bala 17 Jun 2012 | 02:32 am
Miss Bala is riveting, stomach-turning stuff. Gerardo Naranjo’s film is a nightmarish, no-way-out scenario, made worse if you realize that this is the kind of story playing out every day in the terri...
Join me. Give up drinking soda at the movies. 14 Jun 2012 | 01:56 am
I drank a Diet Coke yesterday for the first time in a couple of years. I immediately regretted it. Why? I gave up soda years ago as I read more and more about its destructive and addictive influence...
My first review for Patheos: First Position 12 Jun 2012 | 09:32 am
Allison Backous. Richard Chess. Lindsey Crittenden. Kelly Foster. David Griffith. A.G. Harmon. Chad Thomas Johnston. Caroline Langston. Peggy Rosenthal. Vic Sizemore. Bradford Winters. Tony...
First Position (2011) 12 Jun 2012 | 03:05 am
My review of First Position is published at Good Letters, the blog hosted by Image.
