How Your Church May Be Like Comic-Con

Comic-Con International is the annual gathering of all things pop culture held in San Diego. The convention has panels and gatherings on almost anything to do with comics, movies, television and video games. Despite all of these opportunities, I signed up to volunteer...

‘War for the Planet of the Apes’

The trilogy based on the original “Planet of the Apes” movies comes to a climactic end with “War for the Planet of the Apes.” Both of the previous movies (“Rise of the Planet of the Apes” and “Dawn of the Planet of the...

‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’

They say, “The third time is the charm.” This is the third reboot of the Spider-Man franchise. And I think that they may have found that charm. Spider-Man is the iconic creation of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. The comic hit newsstands in September 1962. At...

‘Baby Driver’

Once upon a time, movies were not about comic book characters filled with CGI and plots that revolved around some entity going to take over the world. Movies once only needed a guy with a car and a girl. The movie was driven by the guy with the car, his girl and the...

‘Beatriz at Dinner’

What do we do about the stranger in our midst? Ralph Neighbor wrote that three types of people inhabit our lives. There are people people, who are our family and close friends. Then there are service people, who get our laundry at the cleaners or our coffee at...