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Remarks I delivered in church this morning: Before I start, you might have the question: Why do I schedule myself to speak so often? It’s not, I assure you, because I think I’m the smartest or holiest person in the room. But I have a couple of traits to bring to bear: 1) I don’t…

In the Blood (2014) – While on an adventurous honeymoon in Central America, a groom disappears after an accident on a zipline, and no one wants to help the bride find him. Fortunately, the bride is Gina Carano, so she kicks half the asses in the country in order to find him. It’s weird, but…

Hundra (1983) – A pseudo-feminist sword-and-sorcery flick?  A nomadic all-women tribe (whose members often visit random men for procreation purposes — they toss back the boy-children) is attacked by a bunch of male barbarians.  It doesn’t say much for the idea of the self-sufficient grrl-power tribe that they’re completely slaughtered, all but Hundra (Laurene Langdon),…

The title is one of those sentiments you should never have to argue for, but here we are. This past Sunday, in the immediate social-media wake of the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump, I saw the perfect response expressed on X: “I’ve voting for the guy they keep trying to kill.” That needs to…