Music Discussions

Hello

Main Point: When we’ve caused someone pain, we must do everything in our power to make it right. The Song:Hello is the latest single from British singing sensation, Adele. The song is about the artist’s attempt to apologize to a significant other for breaking his heart years earlier. The song has a sad feel of loss to it, and...
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Michonne The Walking Dead Deannaby Thom McKee Jr.

“What do you want… for you?”

A question posed from Deanna, lying on her deathbed.

Michonne answered, “I don’t know.”

What would you answer?

The Walking Dead has a unique way of asking us the big questions about life, questions that we wrestle with for the next week. Sadly, this week are asked to wrestle with it for a few months, as this episode was the mid-season finale.

If only the rest of the episode was as thought provoking

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Movie Reviews

Creed (3/1/2016)

Rated PG-13 for violence, language and some sensuality. Starring Sylvester Stallone, Michael B. Jordan and Tessa ThompsonDirected by Ryan CooglerIt’s been almost 40 years and this franchise is still going strong. Adonis Johnson (Jordan) never knew his famous father, world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, who died before he was born. Still, there’s no denying that boxing is in his...
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Rated PG-13 for intense accident and injury images.Hayden Christensen, Kate Bosworth, Dwight Yoakum and Michael W. SmithDirected by Michael Polish (The Astronaut Farmer)90 Minutes in Heaven is based on a true story about a real family that inspires hope, patience and love.Don Piper died Jan. 18, 1989, when a semi-tractor truck crushed his car. Declared dead by the...
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Glenn-Alive-The-Walking-Deadby Thom McKee Jr.

When I was a kid, television was full of certainty. I always knew that the A-Team would save the oppressed and teach the bad guys a lesson. I always knew that Perry Mason would win the case. In Star Trek, if there was a guy on the “away team” (not named Scotty) wearing a red shirt, you knew he was dead meat. Kirk, Spock and McCoy never had to worry about anything as long as one of those “red-shirts” were with them. Those were the rules, and no television show ever tried to break them.

But times have changed. With shows like The Walking Dead, it is hard to remember a time when certainty reigned, especially in an episode like tonight’s. On Talking Dead (The Walking Dead after show), Executive Producer Scott Gimple admitted that

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Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, and for some thematic material.Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson, Donald Sutherland, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Julianne MooreDirected by Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, I Am Legend and Constantine)Could not have asked for a better ending...
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Rated PG-13 for extended sequences of violence and action, some thematic elements, substance use and language.Starring Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangstet and Giancarlo EspositoDirected by Wes Ball (Maze Runner)So this is nothing like the book…but it’s still pretty entertaining.There’s more action, more excitement, and more spectacular effects in this thrilling new chapter of the epic Maze Runner saga...
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