Holiday Game Shopping and Idiots
Another year, another holiday. Another year, more stupidity. Yes, it has already begun. People have begun their insane holiday shopping on Ebay and other Internet shopping sites. What exactly is wrong with you people? If there's one thing I'll never...
Posted in Blogcritics Archives on November 20, 2004 02:50 PM

A Grimly Fiendish Christmas?
At least for retailers, the Christmas season starts with the great switching on of the Christmas lights. This ritual is always supposed to be performed by somebody vaguely famous. In most towns and cities, this honour tends to fall to...
Posted in Blogcritics Archives on November 18, 2004 04:54 PM

"Band Aid 20" Now Recorded
(BBC - click pic for photo legend) The 20th anniversary version of "Do they Know It's Christmas" was recorded yesterday and will be credited to "Band Aid 20." BBC News entertainment reporter Ian Youngs was inside Air Studios in...
Posted in Blogcritics Archives on November 15, 2004 07:43 PM

winter's dark days | the monday sermon
These are the down days of winter, and the sun slips like a canned apricot from the sky and it is not even four o clock and yet darkness bears down on us. For those of us in offices, we...
Posted in Blogcritics Archives on November 15, 2004 05:43 PM

The Polar Express: The Movie
The Polar Express tells a simple story simply. The biggest challenge that Robert Zemeckis had was to make a movie based on a story that was 25 pages, if that. The success of this movie is that it stays true...
Posted in Blogcritics Archives on November 14, 2004 01:27 PM

The Polar Express
In just a few pages, Chris Van Allsburg dissects the central meaning of faith in his book, The Polar Express. Can we believe in something that is beyond the natural? It is a story about the time that a child...
Posted in Blogcritics Archives on November 13, 2004 01:35 AM

Review: Polar Express
$270 million for this 2004 animated picture book to movie adaptation.
Posted in Blogcritics Archives on November 11, 2004 02:28 PM