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Monthly Archives: November 2016

My Favorite Movies: Star Trek: First Contact

November 30, 2016by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

The Star Trek movies featuring the Next Generation crew are still unique in film history. The six films featuring Kirk, Spock and McCoy were all a decade or more removed from the […]

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Double Feature: The Killers and The Killers

November 19, 2016by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

Ernest Hemingway’s short story The Killers is an enticing but perplexing candidate for a feature film adaptation. It’s as spare a narrative as you’ll ever see, a simple chronicle of waiting. […]

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Uh … 3 ½? — Mulan

November 11, 2016by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

The Introduction I caught up with this late Disney Renaissance film at some point during the mid-2000s, though I had been very familiar with the two pop singles it spawned […]

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Either Way, We Have a Lot of Work to Do

November 5, 2016by Paul Boyne Leave a comment

This is chapter 12 of Paul’s epistle to the Romans, rendered in three different English translations: English Standard Version I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to […]

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