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Last night I had the pleasure of previewing 42 before its release in theaters tomorrow. I encourage you to go see it and then stay tuned for my critical thinking review combining an in-depth expl...

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I just finished watching some of the bonus features on the 2-disc set of The Hunger Games and am thinking that this might be a good movie (and book) to review in the future. There are a lot of so...

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Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight series has raised many philosophical questions. We'll be in the theater to screen The Dark Knight Rises and share our Christian review with critical thinking. Th...

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The annual Podcast Awards are upon us! Would you please nominate Are You Just Watching?™ and the rest of the Noodle.mx Network podcasts for awards? The post Please Nominate Are You Just Watch...

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UPDATE: We’re publishing the full review on Tuesday, November 23, over here. My deepest apologies if you came here looking for our Christian critical thinking discussion on Tangled. Unfortunate...

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In an effort to optimize several things on the Noodle.mx Network website, I am changing several things and links may momentarily not work. Please be patient; it won’t be long. The post Updati...

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Is it about football, Christian charity, booster loyalty, or just plain greed? Is this story a Christian parable, an insult to Christianity, or worse, a tragedy of how a black man was exploited b...

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Reciting from the book of Job, playing “Oh Happy Day,” and employing double meanings to the word “race,”  attempts to be much more than a predictable movie about a housewife with guts an...

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We’re jumping back into science-fiction this time! Our next full podcast episode will share critical thinking from the movie . Watch the movie and share with us your thoughts! Leave a message o...

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Perhaps the easiest spiritual analogy to draw from the The Twilight Saga is the concept of eternal love. Throughout the four-book story from Bella's almost continuous perspective, Bella shows how...

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For now, here’s what I have decided for the schedule of our live shows: the Ramen Noodle™ live on Mondays at 8:00 p.m. (ET) The Audacity to Podcast™ live on Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m. (ET) Are...

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This site is still very much in beta. We all already know what “beta” means—I want your feedback! Email me at feedback@AreYouJustWatching.com. In the meantime, I will continue to progressiv...

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There are some movies I watch specifically for critical-thinking exercises, and some are for pure enjoyment. Toy Story 3 will probably be the latter. Tonight, I’m going to see an advanced scree...

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Based on an already-movie-like video game, Jerry Bruckheimer's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time could be another success for Bruckheimer, or another video-game-to-movie fail. We'll be there to...

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Daniel is preparing some thoughts on the Dollhouse TV series. Do you have some thoughts to share? Email feedback@AreYouJustWatching.com or call (903) 231-2221. This show will be posted before the...

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There are some brief spiritual gems in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga that caught my eye. One of them was a quick statement in Breaking Dawn that opened up a spiritual parallel that has a subtle...

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Are You Just Watching?™ is listed in the CleanCasts.com directory, which is a great place for more clean podcasts covering a variety of topics. Can you help us make the top-ten list? All you h...

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Our short reviews and total scorecard for the movie Serenity. The post Serenity Scorecard first appeared on Are You Just Watching? .

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There are a couple things that I really appreciate about the underlying worldview that Meyer's reveals in her storytelling. First off, through her character Edward, she demonstrates marriage as a...

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In my last post I talked briefly about how Meyer used the vampire myth in her popular series, but with the undead as main characters, it's a given that death and eternity are going to be discusse...

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Taking into account that the Twilight Saga books are secular fiction and do not observe a Christian moral code, one of the only objectionable elements that could be argued over is the subject mat...

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A lot of people spend hours watching movies and television, but some of us spend as much time (if not more) reading books. If someone asked me for the top five things I spend time doing, reading ...

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Our upcoming episode will discuss Serenity and Firefly. Get your thoughts in now! And watch for Eve to post her review of the Twilight saga. The post Coming Soon: Serenity, Firefly, and Twiligh...

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Our short review and scorecard for The Dark Knight. The post Scorecard for Batman: The Dark Knight first appeared on Are You Just Watching? .

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Episode 2—and most likely 3 (since we’ll probably have to make a two-part episode)—will begin the critical thinking process on the second of the latest Batman movies, The Dark Knight. Eve a...

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After a lot of technical issues, and a bunch of those life things that tend to take higher priority over launching new podcasts, Eve and I are so happy that we finally have our new site and podca...

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