Entries Tagged as ‘Pop Culture’

May 22, 2008

Indiana Jones: Review

To celebrate the conclusion of our first year of seminary, one of my friends and I decided to head up to the local theater (which means we went to Lexington) to watch the midnight showing of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skull. The movie is the long awaited fourth edition of the adventures [...]

October 16, 2007

Study Break - More randomness from the library

I figure after reading “Readings in Christian Thought” for an exam Thursday afternoon, I needed a study break. Preferably, I could go for one that lasts well until the middle of next week, however I’m going to have to be acceptable to one that is longer than a network news break in the middle of [...]

July 18, 2007

How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Show - Bring in Rosie

As I’ve mentioned here before, I believe the NBC show “Friday Night Lights” was one of the hidden gems of the previous television season. Even though the show did not perform well with viewers, it did receive critical acclaim for the show’s writing and scripts that dealt with everything from families in the midst of [...]

May 15, 2007

Does This Show Sound Familiar?

Networks this week are releasing the fall schedules, highlighting new shows and the continuation of series in front of advertisers. It’s all in a hope to get people interested in the new television year, as well as to driver advertising dollars towards their networks.
NBC, which has struggled this year, was the first to release its [...]

May 4, 2007

What to Watch This Weekend

Ah, it’s Friday. Since it’s scheduled to rain today and tomorrow here in the greater Triangle area, I offer for your viewing pleasure, my suggestions for the weekend. That is, of course, if you have no interest in seeing SpiderMan 3 this weekend.
Kentucky Derby
4:30 p.m., NBC
The annual “Run for the Roses,” broadcast will include the [...]

March 9, 2007

Things worth contemplating this Friday

Today is official 300 day. The epic movie opens nationwide tonight and I can’t wait. Hopefully, I won’t be disappointed like when I went to see Titanic expecting to see a movie on the struggles of the passengers only to get a romantic movie. I still haven’t gotten over that one. That had to be [...]

March 3, 2007

A movie worth seeing

Today, I opted to treat myself to a little pre-birthday fun - a midday movie at Southpoint Mall in Durham. I had heard a lot about the movie “Amazing Grace,” and I decided to go see it. After watching the movie, I made a wise choice in seeing Grace instead of Wild Hogs or any [...]

March 1, 2007

This is where game shows have taken us … back to 5th grade

Yesterday, I decided to watch the FOX game show “Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?” Being a fan of Jeff Foxworthy, I figured the show would be at least halfway entertaining.
Nope.
The show is a nauseating 30 minutes of questions and answers that feature some typically less-than-mind challenging questions. (Granted, I did miss the trapezoid [...]