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Death On the Nile: Poirot A-Woken
by Ted Giese Agatha Christie’s murder mystery about a beautiful heiress, Linnet Doyle née Ridgeway who is murdered on her honeymoon while traveling down Egypt’s Nile River has received a modern update in Kenneth Branagh’s Death on the Nile. Readers of Christie’s 1937 novel and…
Ghostbusters: Calling the Reit Number!
by Rev. Ted Giese A down-on-her-luck single mother, Callie, moves her young nerdy science-obsessed daughter Phoebe and mechanically-inclined teenaged son Trevor to her estranged father’s farmhouse to settle his affairs after his sudden death. The dilapidated farmhouse holds secrets to a mystery slowly uncovered by…
New book tackles Faith and Film
CANADA – A new academic book on faith and film features contributions from three Lutheran Church–Canada pastors. Film, Philosophy, and Religion is a new book from Vernon Press’ Series in Philosophy of Religion. Serving as editor for the book is Rev. Dr. William (Bill) H.U….
No Time to Die: 007’s Swann Song
by Ted Giese This is the end. Hold your breath and count to ten. At least, it’s the definitive end of Daniel Craig as James Bond. Following the events of 2015’s Spectre, a short-lived but passionate romance with Madeleine Swann, and dropping so far off…
In Review: Tenet
by Ted Giese Tenet’s lead character, the Protagonist, is a soldier with clandestine special training who is recruited into a temporal cold war to stop the future destruction of time and the material world. In this mysterious palindrome of a film he receives a code…