The Manual (2017) – A very well-produced 30-minute short, The Manual is the story of James, very likely the last human alive on Earth, who has been raised since toddlerhood by an android servitor known only as “Machine.” Machine has been diligent about teaching James from “The Manual,” an ebook of scripture which affirms a…
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Some thoughts on the boogeyman du jour, “toxic masculinity.”
[Crossposted from Facebook] Unlike other conservative-leaning folks, I believe that it exists. However, a lot of the confusion comes from its poor name. Toxic masculinity is what results when boys aren’t trained to channel their masculinity as they mature. Aggression, competitiveness etc. are instinctive traits more common (or common in greater strength) among human males…
Movies Seen Recently: Christmas Dress, The Green Berets, Mars Needs Women
Christmas Dress (2016) – It’s based on a true story about a comfortably well-off father and son who went out of their way to make sure that Christmas reached a destitute family during the Depression. Everyone involved wanted to make a fine, uplifting short film (27 minutes) for the LDS audience. However, the script is…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
(Skipped a day for Christmas.)
Movies Seen Recently: The Undefeated, John Dies at the End, A Christmas Carol
The Undefeated (1969) – At the end of the Civil War, northerner John Wayne is happy to take the remaining cavalrymen who followed him into war out West to catch wild horses to sell to the Army. Southern officer and gentlemen Rock Hudson, meanwhile, burns his plantation house rather than let it fall into northern…