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Amazing Spider-Man 2: A David and Goliath tale

by Ted Giese The first words everyone hears as the closing credits roll following The Amazing Spider-Man 2 are from Kendrick Lamar: “And everyone knows the story of David and…

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How to Train Your Dragon 2: Children’s fantasy, grown-up ideas

by Ted Giese Building on How to Train Your Dragon’s story of complimentary parts making a whole, and how a change of perspective can improve a person’s overall outlook on…

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Greyhound: Heavy Action, Light Characters, and the Lutheran Connection

by Ted Giese Greyhound, Tom Hanks’ adaptation of the 1955 C.S. Forester novel The Good Shepherd, was set to sail into theatres June 12,, 2020, and then pushed back to…

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Hercules: not so strong on screen this time

by Ted Giese The new Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson 2014 film Hercules fits somewhere between Brad Pitt’s anti-supernatural, sword-and-sandal 2004 epic Troy and the cheesy, zany, over-the-top Kevin Sorbo 1990s…

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The Canadian Lutheran and the 2020 CCCA Awards

…Rev. Ted Giese Rev. Ted Giese received third place in the Media Review category for his review of It: Chapter 2, bringing a Christian perspective to the Stephen King story….

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In Review – Spider-Man: No Way Home

NOTE: Spoilers follow. by Ted Giese At the end of 2019’s Spider-Man: Far from Home the villain Mysterio revealed to the world Spider-Man’s secret identity. Spider-Man: No Way Home begins…

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