Death is a very frightening thing. We have no idea what is on the other side, what’s waiting for us, what’ll happen when we stop breathing and moving. The far side is terrifying. I should say, apart from Jesus and what He’s said the other side is terrifying and all that. But that’s the kicker. The only way to live and die without fear is to trust Jesus…

Some time ago I saw a trailer for a movie called Juno. Halfway through the trailer I knew I wanted to see this movie. Tonight I ventured out in the rain and cold to go see it. Juno is about a sixteen-year-old girl who accidentally gets pregnant by her best friend.  She doesn’t want the baby and decides to give him up for adoption. Simple enough, right?

Plot wise the movie was very straight forward. But the characters were wonderfully rounded and full of life. These were normal people saying normal things and dealing with each other and their circumstances. Half the movie happened in Juno’s face. There’s a voice over periodically which is vital so that we know what she’s thinking because…

I have recently discovered that I am a hopeless romantic. I love watching people fall in love; I love watching people who are in love. I like watching the awkward newly-weds and I like watching the sweet old couple. I don’t like the genre of Romance, but I delight in love stories.

Last week I watched a truly great love story movie. The Italian movie The Tiger and the Snow was co-written, directed and starred in by Roberto Benigni who also co-wrote, directed and starred in Life is Beautiful.

Roberto Benigni plays Attilo de Giovanni a professor of poetry in Rome. He’s vague, scatter-brained and excited about everything he does. Every night he dreams he is getting married to a beautiful woman, the woman of his dreams. And then at a poetry reading…

I’ve watched Blade Runner a bunch of times.  I’m enough of a die-hard that I have the original version on VHS, plus the Director’s Cut on DVD.  It’s in my Top 10 favorite films.  It’s worth seeing just for the sets.  Remember, this is all pre-CGI.  Everything that you see was built from scratch.

It’s also inspired by the sort of detective fiction that I’ve been reading of late.  So I wanted to watch it again from this angle.  I’ve viewed it many times from the SF angle.  This time, I wanted to see it as a noir…