Didn’t write much this month, but who cares? I discovered I am listed on Rotten Tomatoes as a critic.
“Dark Places”
Christianity Today – Aug. 6, 2015
Dark Places wants to be a movie about forgiveness. It comes close to asking some big questions, like these: How do we acknowledge the past while living in the present? How do we forgive ourselves for past mistakes without running from the consequences?
Fantastic Four reboot offers a few twists to trite superhero tale
World – Aug. 7, 2015
It is a rare superhero movie that portrays the consequences of becoming a superhero. In Fantastic Four, five teenage scientists make some very foolish decisions and suffer for them by gaining superpowers—invisibility, expandable skin, rock-like durability, and fire.
“The Man From U.N.C.L.E.”
World -Sept. 5, 2015
In the 1960s, while James Bond was regularly taking over the box office, Bond writer Ian Fleming suggested “Napoleon Solo” as the name of another womanizing, besuited spy working for an international government organization called U.N.C.L.E. After premiering on NBC in 1964, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. went on to rival CBS’ Mission: Impossible in popularity; but eventually, as TV was overrun with spies, it became almost a satire of its own genre.