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The French Dispatch: Colourful, Obsessive Show-and-Tell
by Ted Giese Set in the fictional French town of Ennui-sur-Blasé, Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch chronicles the publication of the last edition of “The French Dispatch,” a supplement in a fictional New Yorker-style magazine called the Evening Sun. The magazine is headquartered in Liberty,…
Dune: A Sublime yet Bleak Adaptation
by Ted Giese Focusing on the first half of Frank Herbert’s 1965 science fiction novel, Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Dune chronicles a young prince’s tragic coming of age amidst a futuristic struggle for power, resources, and influence between feudalistic nobility and specialized guilds. Noble houses…
The Suicide Squad: Caught Between Heroic and Psychotic
by Ted Giese In what can be considered a true sequel to David Ayer’s 2006 film Suicide Squad, James Gunn’s 2021 The Suicide Squad clearly benefited from less studio interference. Hamstrung and muddled, Ayer’s film never quite achieved what the director desired to put on…
The Green Knight—A Tale Tried, Tested, and Inverted
by Ted Giese This eerie and foreboding retelling of the epic late 14th-century Middle English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a purposeful inversion of the long-studied and revered anonymous work. While it diverges at some points from the general narrative of the…
New Threinen book: Landestreu, an Odyssey
by Mathew Block Rev. Dr. Norman J. Threinen, professor emeritus of Concordia Lutheran Seminary (Edmonton) has recently released his latest book, Landestreu, An Odyssey: The Story of a Family over Time (available from Friesen Press). In this work, Threinen recounts the story of his own…
Christmas Worship Services 2016
CANADA – For those traveling during the Christmas season, it can be difficult to find out the times and locations of worship services. Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) is hoping to make it a little less complicated by posting the seasonal worship time for its churches across…
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