Tom Cruise established his tons of personality brand of acting with Risky Business and Top Gun and followed that up with Cocktail and Rain Man, in the 1980’s. Top Gun catapulted him to stardom in 1986 playing a cocksure flyer in the Airforce with grin, muscle and way too much charm. It cemented Cruises reputation…

Some October movies, this week at the theaters. I Am Not Ashamed is the title of a faith-based film at theaters this week. Being a faith-based film, ‘I am not ashamed’ seems to refer to being not ashamed of Jesus. I have heard it used quite often in Christian products and is based on the…

Ghostbusters (2016) is entertaining. Also flat at the beginning, but overall an entertaining film and an amusing comedy. It is a visual effects heaven. Chris Hemsworth is amusing as the “dumb blonde”. The ghostbuster heroines are believable. Ghostbusters is also supernatural fiction, but in spite of it being fiction, is it saying there’s a supernatural world…

Seemingly insignificant tasks can have a way of becoming useful, perhaps even the main thing. Take the reboot of Ghostbusters (2016). Not many would call Abby Yates mission to prove ghosts exist a real occupation. It may be funded research, but the odds of coming up with the goods appears remote. Aren’t ghosts the figment of…

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