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  • Jesus Camp

    Jesus Camp: This movie has nothing to do with pirates or reality TV, so it gets a separate post. Jesus Camp is a documentary about a camp where kids go to “learn” about evangelical Christian beliefs. You may have heard Richard Dawkins say that bringing up kids to believe in a certain religion is child…

  • Arrrrr

    Here are a few things I saw: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End: Meh. This was an OK movie. Maybe I’m just going retarded in my old age, or didn’t see the 2nd movie recently enough, but it was damn confusing for a movie about pirates killing each other. I know pirates are supposed…

  • Book Review: The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1), by Phillip Pullman

    The Golden Compass is actually called Northern Lights in every place except North America. I guess the publishers thought that kids would get confused, because they would not know what lights could possibly be doing in the north. Never mind that the book never refers to the titular object as a compass; that’s not confusing…