"007 JAMES BOND. P.S. SECRET AGENT. DON'T TELL ANYBODY."

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Cobweb is a middling autumnal horror movie rooted in family secrets and childhood trauma. Lizzy Caplan excels at the crazy-lady role and is perennially trapped in it. Antony Starr is hard to mentally separate from his role as Homelander in The Boys . Starr is a capable actor but Homelander is such a perverse character and the shadow cast by a role like that is hard to escape. Peter is a quiet,…

The Autopsy of Jane Doe is standard horror fare. The leads are both extremely capable and it's all bottled up in a single location. The slow unwinding of events is effective at building tension, from the mysterious finding of Jane Doe's body at a gruesome murder scene to the layered discovery of who and what she is over the course of the autopsy. Austin Tilden is open minded about the nature of…

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Lenore Mitchell's novel, "Wild Ride" introduces the protagonist who would create a refuge for wild horses, and an old friend who complicates matters.

For Lenore Mitchell, the author of "Wild Ride" and other books built on her affection for horses, the connection between human and animal is paramount.

In this post I will be quoting from the Commentary on John (Origen).

The citations that I will be providing will help the readers see that Origen affirms,

The Monarchy (monarchia) of the Father, that he is the unbegotten Source of Divinity.

Christ is the uncreated Wisdom of God, being the timelessly begotten Son of the Father.

Christ is the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the…

In the summer of 1997, NOAA's underwater microphone network — a Cold War-era array of hydrophones originally built to track Soviet submarines and later repurposed to monitor earthquakes and whale migrations — picked up something strange off the coast of southern Chile. — Read the rest

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The following excerpt is taken from St. Augustine’s On the Holy Trinity, Book 4. In it, the blessed saint reasons that the Father’s sending of the Son into the world is a sign and reflection of the Father’s having eternally begotten/generated the Son. Augustine takes this economic procession, e.g., the Father’s sending forth the Son to be born of a woman, as indicative of their eternal…

In this excerpt from "A Well Too Full," Daniel Ginsberg's protagonist, Banty Connors, reintroduces herself to the cops she knows she can ill-afford to trust in the trilogy finale.

Author Daniel Ginsberg, a former military policeman, pulled background for "A Well Too Full" from two cases that unfolded decades apart on different continents.

Let Me In is a surprisingly tender and sweet film that happens to feature blood, immolation and dismemberment. It's incredibly easy to screw up remakes, vampire movies and remakes of vampire movies (I haven't watched the original yet — give me a minute). Eat some now. Save some for later. This applies to candy, but not people. You eat all of the people. Right now. At it's core, Let Me In , is an…

Do you smell something? Urban Legend occupies the same milieu as Cherry Falls and I Know What You Did Last Summer but is far closer in quality to the latter. I vaguely remember having seen this before or, at least, I believe I have. I could also be that the setting is extremely familiar. The coffee shop — Friends burned this into everyone's mind — feels so emblematic and central to the time. But,…

Lately, I’ve been in desperate need of a new podcast to get wrapped up in during my daily morning walks. I’m aiming for 10K steps a day, but it’s nearly impossible without something gripping to keep me going.

That’s why I’m fully obsessed with these mystery podcasts—they’re so addictive, you’ll lose track of time trying to crack the case. From _Up and Vanished_ to _Unfound_ , these are our…

Class dismissed! Cherry Falls is a ludicrous slasher that manages to be campy while landing oh so shy of self-parody. A serial killer is on the loose murdering high school virgins so all the high school virgins throw a sex party to exclude themselves from the list of potential victims. Which, of course, would never work because that's just a word the killer carved in their victims (only to carve…

In this post I will be looking at two OT texts, which the early Christians saw as foreshadowing Christ’s crucifixion. These early writers employed these particular verses as prophesying or prefiguring Christ’s death on a cross.

First Prophecy

I begin with the following reference from the Jeremiah:

“and I am as a lamb or a bullock brought to the slaughter; and I know not that they fabricate…

Use promo code ABYZOU for 50% off your first meal kit! Movies like this are always fascinating because they hinge entirely on the ability of a single actor or actress to keep the audience engaged. Nina Kiri is more than up to the task. undertone is a slow burn that conducts itself almost entirely via a podcast recorded at Evy's mother's dining room table. I don't know that it's a novel concept,…

On July 24, 1989, two hikers from Tokyo had gone missing while climbing to the summit of Asahi-dake, the highest point of Hokkaido. As the sun was setting, a helicopter search crew made a startling discovery: a crude but massive SOS sign, constructed of fallen trees. The search parties converged on the vicinity of the sign, and found the two men in a cave about two or three kilometers north of…

In this post I will quote from a few fathers and saints of the Church whom all believed that the reason the Son honored the Father as his God is because of the Incarnation, as a result of the eternal Word becoming flesh and taking on a human nature. All emphasis will be mine.

Hippolytus

60. To grasp this divine mystery we must see the God in Him without ignoring the Man; and the Man without…

In this post I will be quoting from the works of Justin Martyr and Tertullian in respect to Old Testament prophecies and typology pointing to Christ. All emphasis will be mine.

One interesting typology that both of them employ is the case of Joshua, whom they not only take to be a picture of Jesus but as also foreshadowing Christ’s actual name. Both Justin and Tertullian argue that Joshua is the…

Lindsay Lohan is gearing up to step into her darkest role yet in Hulu's new show _Count My Lies_. The actress has swept us off our feet with Netflix rom-coms like _Irish Wish_ , but while she loves the rom and the com, she's also excited to star in the new show. Adapted from Sophie Stava's book of the same name, the series set to be a wild ride of manipulation that'll leave viewers unsure of…

Here’s the link to the first part: Cyprian, Messianic Prophecies & Christ’s Hypostatic Union.

I cite from the rest of St. Cyprian’s treatise where he quotes verse after verse from both testaments to prove that the prophets announced our Lord’s Deity, Humanity, vicarious death, resurrection, physical, heavenly ascension, physical, bodily return to the earth to judge all flesh, and his spiritual…

AI? I refuse. That is the death of civilization. There were plenty of missed opportunities here to have even a vaguely meaningful discussion about AI and deepfakes and, while I appreciate the cheap shots at it, I know I shouldn't expect any depth from a Scream movie (unless you're talking about the depth of a stab wound). This isn't a bad entry for the franchise, but it's also not a good one. It…

Every six months we take a moment to contextualise and analyse all the SEEDS we’ve sown in order try and understand what’s changed, what’s coming and what, if anything, we should do about it.

The resulting BRAND BRIEFINGS are intentionally designed to coincide with the equinoxes – as a celestial reminder of the shift in seasons and symbols of equilibrium, renewal and the planting and harvesting…

Corry combines a woman’s legal career with a fragile marriage and old threats from the past, reminding readers that success without self-protection is its own insidious danger.

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After a film lab technician developed a 70-year-old roll of film showing a group of skiers in post-war Switzerland, he was contacted by a man who had an even older roll of undeveloped film.

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The Daily produces nanowords whenever we feel like it, along with mini crosswords three times a week and a full-size crossword biweekly.

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Look, normally I'd say it's safe to assume that a movie like The Home is bad purely because it's a horror movie featuring Pete Davidson. But the fact that Bodies Bodies Bodies proves that this can work. He's far better in settings tilted towards the comedic, but he's perfectly fine outside of that. But this is a spectacularly bad movie. Almost — almost — beyond redemption. This was bad enough to…

Don't Worry Darling is what happens when guys sit home alone, all day, in chat rooms listening to crap on YouTube. Guys that are also too stupid to know that you can't take the same phone you use in the bathroom into an operating room. Is this what the metaverse was supposed to be? Florence Pugh is a star and I guess Harry Styles was in a band at some point, but he's a solid actor. The music is…

Scooby Dooby doo If you've seen the other Benoit Blanc movies, you'll know they follow a well-designed formula. I hesitate to call them formulaic given the negative connotations of the term, but they are what they are. And what they are is very good . Wake Up Dead Man is an excellent film. I knew a twist was coming, some sort of grand reveal and it came, went and I was still surprised by how it…