Arrrrgh! It’s Talk like a Pirate Day!
September 19, 2008 by Steve
Filed under Culture and Faith, Movies, The Cultural Conversation, Weblog
Today marks International Talk Like a Pirate Day (ITLAPD), a parodic holiday invented in 1995 by John Baur (Ol’ Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap’n Slappy), of Corvallis, Oregon, who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate. For example, an observer of this holiday would [...]
VeggieTales Trailer and Questions: The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything
January 11, 2008 by Steve
Filed under Breaking News, Family, Fatherhood, Movies, The Arts in the City, The Cultural Conversation
“The children’s franchise delivers an entertaining spoof as the vegetables find the heroes in themselves.” — LA TIMES “Most Entertaining” – Hollywood Reporter “Pirates imparts the Bible-inspired storytelling parents and kids have come to expect from VeggieTales in a less obvious but as-fun-as-always package.” – Christianity Today DISCUSSION STARTERS: Here are some questions from Christianity [...]
Silver Surfer as Christ Figure
June 17, 2007 by Steve
Filed under Movies, The City, The Cultural Conversation
Just got home from seeing the latest summer blockbuster, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer that has been brought to the big screen by Stan Lee and 20th Century Fox. It was an excellent movie with incredible special effects and a strong Christ figure in the Silver Surfer. The good story line comes from [...]
Free Media Sources
At Park Community Church, a contemporary, non-denominational church of about 1,250 urbanites (20-45 year old) in Chicago, we are always looking to find the right way to express ourselves in our 8 minutes with God daily devotionals, in HTML emails, on our website and in print. Many times, we search and search for the right [...]
Nativity Story: No Ordinary Joe
The Nativity Story See trailer Opens Today, Dec 1 Rated: PG (some violence) Running Time: 1:42 Principal Cast: Mary – Keisha Castle-Hughes Joseph – Oscar Isaac Anna – Hiam Abbass Joaquim – Shaun Toub King Herod – Ciaran Hinds Elizabeth – Shohreh Aghdashloo Today, we took our whole staff to see The Nativity Story, starring [...]
Free Movie Downloads This Saturday!
Tip of the Hat to Tech Crunch, who gives us a timely headsup on some free movies downloads for the Christmas season this Saturday: AOL Video has decided to spread some holiday cheer by giving away over 30 free movie downloads for one day only on Saturday. Several of the titles are, appropriately, Christmas movies [...]
VHS: Say It Ain’t So
November 30, 2006 by Steve
Filed under Movies, Technology
VHS, long the format of choice for home entertainment, is now all but forgotten, and most retailers are not stocking VHS tapes in the lucrative Christmas selling season. The format had been expected to survive until January, but high-def formats and next-generation videogame consoles hastened its final decline. I spent much of my hard-earned money [...]
Hollywood Prayers
The words “prayer” and “Hollywood” aren’t often seen in the same sentence, but prayer for Hollywood’s leaders will be very much on the minds of attendees of the 3rd Annual National Media Prayer Breakfast on November 3rd in Los Angeles, California. More than 1,000 people are expected to attend, joining celebrities, top producers, directors and [...]
Download Movies to DVD Burner
July 19, 2006 by Steve
Filed under Movies, Technology, Weblog
I am a big movie buff and when I hear of advancements in technology benefitting the consumer, I am the first to jump for joy. Today was a good day, with online movie seller CinemaNow unveiling a new service that allows customers to download a movie from the Internet and copy it onto a DVD [...]
