The Break
By Fr. Roderick Vonhögen
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A weekly show about faith and culture, with movie/tv reviews, questions and answers about faith, books, cooking, technology and video games.
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The Break: Rings of Power Season 2, The Hunt for Gollum and Mastering Notion
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May 16, 2024 |
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The Break: Baby Reindeer Gets Real; How Gaming Helps My Health; Apple's iPad Pro Misfire
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May 11, 2024 |
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The Break: New iPads, the Ascension, Star Wars and Baby Reindeer
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May 08, 2024 |
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The Break: Daisy Ridley's Return to Star Wars; Atlas, Transformers One and Twisters
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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The Break: Why I Love Fantasy Festivals; X-Men 97, Fallout and the Vatican
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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The Break: Tales of the Empire and the one thing lacking in Star Wars: Outlaws
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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The Break: The future of Star Trek, the Star Wars Prequels today, when does faith become superstition?
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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The Break: Holy Week and Easter Explained, Fallout, Alien Romulus and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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The Break: The Acolyte, The Three Body Problem and Wonka
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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The Break: The 2024 Oscars, Frieren, Resident Alien and Iron Gold
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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The Break: Across the Spiderverse, James Gunn & Superman, Pope Francis
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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The Break: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Netflix); Bad Batch Season 3; Rereading the Lord of the Rings
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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The Break: Madame Web, Captain Rambeau, My New Book
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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The Break: The Marvels, Guardians of the Galaxy vol.3 and The New Look
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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The Break: RIP Carl Weathers; My First Tolkien Webinar; Pluto Review
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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The Break: The Creator Review; Ancient Rome and Alexandria on TV; The Apprentice in the Kitchen
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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The Break: Barbie and the Oscars; Squid Games Season 2; True Detective and Palworld
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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The Break: Star Wars Fans vs Toxic Fandom; Walking to Mordor; the History Lessons of Vinland Saga
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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The Break: The Mandalorian and Grogu Movie: Why? Medieval Dynasty and the Harry Potter Reboot
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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The Break: Is It Time For Women To Shape Star Wars? Middle-earth in 4K; Star Trek Discovery
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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The Break: New Year’s Break: My Review of Rebel Moon
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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The Break: The LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special; Tolkien in Rome; Thermae Romae Novae
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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The Break: Christmas Movie & TV Specials, Pasta Secrets and Red Rising: Morning Star Review
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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The Break: Andor Postponed? Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder, Visiting Bagshot Row
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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The Break: Doctor Who: The Star Beast Spoiler-free Review | Star Wars in 2024 | Return to Moria | Squid Game: The Challenge
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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The Break: 60 Years of Doctor Who; Dave Filoni and the Future of Star Wars; Rings of Power Season 2; more Vinland Saga Thoughts
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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The Break: Is Taika Waititi’s Star Wars movie shelved? Deep Space Nine’s enduring relevancy; Fullmetal Alchemist’s surprising depth
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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The Break: Can Kevin Feige Save Star Wars? Andy Serkis Reads The Silmarillion; Vinland Saga and History
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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The Break: Loki Season 2, Star Wars: The Acolyte, The War of the Rohirrim and Vinland Saga
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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The Break: Zombie Night Troopers and Force Ghosts
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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The Break: 20 Years Since the Return of the King
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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The Break: Is It Time To Reboot Star Wars?
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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The Break: Why Star Wars – Ahsoka Tells a Pivotal Story
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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The Break: A Musical Journey From Middle-earth to Galaxy’s Edge
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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Back To The Shire
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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Why I Want To Become A Storm Trooper
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Sirius Black And Other Father Figures
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Luke Skywalker in France
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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How Star Wars Rebels Inspired Me To Bring My Podcast To The Next Level
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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Lando’s Future, Secret Invasion Review, World Youth Day
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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Babylon 5 Finally on Blu-ray, Spock’s Humanity; Creativity and the Streaming Crisis
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Fubar, Hillsong, the Emmy Awards, thoughts on ‘manifesting’, Quidditch and Mac OS Sonoma
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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The Week of Threads; The Last Airbender: Quest for Balance; Star Wars Rebels Rewatch
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Tolkien’s Unlikely Heroes, Silo Season 1 Review, Twitter and Reddit
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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The End of Star Trek Prodigy, Secret Invasion and Mission Impossible
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Star Wars: Outlaws, Star Wars premiere dates announced, the Reddit controversy
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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Star Wars on the Apple Vision Pro, exciting new Lego Sets, The Marvels
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Recasting Luke Skywalker? Transformers and Barbies; the Lego Mars Rover
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May 31, 2023 |
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Return of the Jedi – Has It Really Been 40 Years?
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May 26, 2023 |
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Disney Plus Removing Willow? The Creator Trailer, Crusade in Jeans, LEGO 2K Drive, Why Frankincense?
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May 21, 2023 |
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The Week of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
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May 14, 2023 |
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The Future of Star Wars & Babylon 5
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May 05, 2023 |
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The Secret of Sesame Street
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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There Is More To The Mandalorians
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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From London to Rotterdam
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Live From London: The Star Wars Celebration 2023!
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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This Is The Way
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Tolkien, the Ring and The Annunciation
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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Will The Star Wars Celebration Surprise Us With Big News?
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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Why Wakanda Forever Didn’t Work
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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The Mandalorian Is Back With Even More Religious Symbolism
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Hello Tomorrow! Review
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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Star Trek Picard Season 3 – My Spoiler-free Review!
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Feb 18, 2023 |
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James Gunn’s DC Universe Plans: My Thoughts
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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Shrinking On Apple TV Plus Is Amazing
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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Why Picard Brings Back His Old Crew
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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The Last of Us
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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The Depth of Deep Space Nine
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Knives Out and Glass Onion
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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My Favorite TV Shows Of 2022
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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What Are The Best Christmas Movies For Geeks?
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Superman and James Gunn – What Happens Now?
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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Wednesday is a Netflix Hit – But Why?
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Remember Pong?
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Why Back To The Future Is So Iconic
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Heading For The Moon!
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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The Fall of Númenor
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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The Mastodon Move
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Nov 05, 2022 |
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I Ain’t Afraid Of No Ghost!
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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The Devil and Demons: What’s The Difference?
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Oct 22, 2022 |
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What Bible Readers Can Learn From She-Hulk
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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How ‘Rings of Power’ Plays On My Heartstrings
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Oct 08, 2022 |
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What I learned from Anthony Bourdain
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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Why Star Wars: Andor is Not For Kids
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Star Wars Emotional Whiplash
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Sep 18, 2022 |
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Is The Sandman worth watching?
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Sep 11, 2022 |
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Rings of Power First Impressions
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Sep 04, 2022 |
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Hulks and Dragons
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Aug 27, 2022 |
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Superman flying over the Vatican
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Aug 20, 2022 |
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Is House of the Dragon any good?
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Aug 13, 2022 |
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Why was the DC Movie Batgirl shelved?
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Aug 06, 2022 |
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Star Trek: Lower Decks is much better than I thought
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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Wakanda Forever and other news from Comic-Con!
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Jul 24, 2022 |
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The Rings of Power Teaser Trailer looks stunning
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Jul 16, 2022 |
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The Break is Back; Stranger Things 4, Free Will in Strange New Worlds; Shadow of the Sith
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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R.I.P. Arturo; Lego Masters; do animals go to heaven? 007 diaries; electric cars and Apple’s AR glasses
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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A Murder Mystery Dinner; Obi-wan series review; is the Pope resigning? The Office BFFs; Science and Drought
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Will Obi-Wan Kenobi get another season? What to read/watch/play; Writing Tips; Interstellar Travel; DaVinci Resolve
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Star Wars Celebration, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Editing Star Wars, Nasa revisits Venus, WWDC 2022
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Star Wars: the Sequels, Writing a Book, Bible Reading, Sports and Mortality
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Star Wars: the Prequels, Liturgical Music and Penguins, Worst Book Ever, Billionairs in Space
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May 25, 2022 |
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Star Wars: the Original Trilogy, Vatican Liturgy, the Tao of Feeling, Tech and Lemonade
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May 18, 2022 |
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Rome, The Adam Project, Faith and Art, Horror movies and Twitter alternatives
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May 11, 2022 |
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Japanese Anime, Fallen Angels, The Wall, MacBook experiences
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May 04, 2022 |
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Turning Red, Old Man’s War, Swimming Dinosaurs, Descript Voice Synthesis
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Dutch Easter Traditions, Moon Knight, Easter gospels, Organizing for the Rest of Us; Earendil, Nvidia Nerf
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Severance, Holy Week, In The Tall Grass, Covid and my Brain, MacBook Pro or Mac Studio?
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Inventing Anna, Divine Renovation, James Bond, Sound on Mars and Topaz Video Enhance AI
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Heat Pumps, HBO Max and Dinosaurs in Scotland
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Laetare Sunday, Encanto, Oceans on Mars, Music Services Compared
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Severance review, Prayer and Mindfulness, Embrace Your Weird
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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The Matrix Resurrections, Fasting Ideas, The Prison Doctor and Smart Magpies
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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The war in Ukraine, Suspicion review
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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Superstore; Church Architecture; Tolkien’s Appendices; Car Technology
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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The Last Airbender; the Mystery of God; Storytelling secrets; Webb’s Selfie
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Why you should watch ‘Reset’ on YouTube
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Why I loved Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story so much
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Spider-Man: No Way Home; Ukraine, Catholics in Crisis; Moon Littering and Domotics
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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The Harry Potter Reunion; Eternals; Forgiveness, the 5 am Club, Groundhog Day
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Jan 22, 2022 |
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Don’t Look Up, the Pope and Pets, the High Republic, Rugby Planets and Apple’s AR plans
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Boba Fett, The Hail Mary Project, why Catholics like to party!
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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My thoughts on Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Mythic Quest & Christmas in times of Covid
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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Secrets of Dumbledore, Ted Lasso, Mythic Quest, Joy vs Cynicism
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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IKEA Sleepover, Hawkeye, Wheel of Time, Lucid Dreaming
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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A New Harry Potter Director’s Cut? Red Notice review, the Paramount+ Debacle, the sacrament of Ordination
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Dune Part 2; Halloween, All Saints and All Souls; Ghostbusters; New MacBook pros and Meta
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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Squid Game, James Bond, Niksen and Science Denial
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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My thoughts on Shang-Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings
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Sep 24, 2021 |
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Miracles, Mars and the Matrix
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Black Widow, Kids in Church, Sleep and Mars Exploration
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Aug 14, 2021 |
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Pixar’s ‘Luca’, Traditionis Custodes, Martian Chronicles, Consoles vs. PC
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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Shadow and Bone, Millionairs in Space, Loki and Thrawn
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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Ted Lasso, Godparents, Lego and Squids in Space
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Raya and the Last Dragon
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Jun 19, 2021 |
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‘Sweet Tooth’ on Netflix – my review!
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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The Bad Batch, Shadow and Bone, Religious Vows and Back to the Future
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May 30, 2021 |
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Why I LOVED ‘Nomadland’
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May 01, 2021 |
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The Falcon and The Winter Soldier – Season Finale Review
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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Why I was wrong about the Falcon and the Winter Soldier
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Apr 10, 2021 |
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Easter, Sonic the Hedgehog, Ikigai, Mars rumblings
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Apr 03, 2021 |
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Hanna, the Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Holy Week in a nutshell
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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The Seal of Confession, Strange New Worlds and Deep Nostalgia
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Mar 14, 2021 |
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Maze Runners and Divine Providence
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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WW84 problems, Penance, Save the Cat, Mars Rover Perseverance
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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Tiny House Nation, The Expanse, Saint Lidwina
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Feb 13, 2021 |
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Golfing on the Moon, Miracle Morning and February Traditions
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Kong vs Godzilla, Mars Rover Perseverance, Apple VR
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Jan 31, 2021 |
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The Muppet Show on Disney Plus, Pet Vision, WhatsApp and Signal
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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Star Wars Rebels, Lectors, Acolytes and Robot Fish
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Jan 16, 2021 |
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We need to talk about what happened in Washington DC
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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The Holiday Show
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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Remembering Jeremy Bulloch, Disney Plus, Churches and Corona
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Dec 19, 2020 |
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‘Long Covid’, The Boys, The Mandalorian and the Lord of the Rings 4K
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Dec 05, 2020 |
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Catholic Winter Traditions, The Last Skywalker, Apple’s M1 Macs
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Nov 15, 2020 |
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The Mandalorian, Faith, Politics and Star Wars fandom, Stephen Fry and One More Thing
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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James Randi, Emily in Paris, Terminator Dark Fate, Pope Francis documentary
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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Star Trek Discovery, Fratelli Tutti and the iPhone 12
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Oct 18, 2020 |
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Covid-19, Ozark, Fallen Priests, Bedtime Stories
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Oct 11, 2020 |
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Movie Plot Clichés
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Dune
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Cobra Kai
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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Wakanda Forever
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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Spongebob Squarepants and saints for magicians
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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Home decoration, Double World and patron saints
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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What we can learn from IKEA’s customer service
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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Is the Netflix series ‘Cursed’ worth your time?
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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The Secret of Heaven, Hell and Purgatory, Warrior Nuns and the X-Files
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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Filthy Rich, the Last Airbender, Yoga and Scifi world-building in games
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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Artemis Fowl review, Communion & Corona, Apple’s WWDC
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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They Shall Not Grow Old; virtual liturgy; Dark Tower: The Gunslinger; Scifi adventures
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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Space Force, Frankincense, Racism and respect, Artemis Fowl and Lord of the Rings
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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Snowpiercer, holy water squirt guns and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
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May 27, 2020 |
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Animal Crossing, Church after Corona, Clone Wars, Taika Waititi and Star Wars
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May 15, 2020 |
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Churches to reopen, Into the Night review, Vader dethroned
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May 07, 2020 |
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UFOs, Dark Phoenix, Clone Wars, Joseph and Mary, The Witcher
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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Tales from the Loop, Children of Blood and Bone, Anthem
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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Father Roderick To The Max – Premiere Episode!
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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Happy Easter, Tiger King & Storytelling, Yesterday, Edge of Tomorrow, West World
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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Tiger King, Picard Season 1 review, sacred space in Corona times
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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Lifestyle tips for the Corona Crisis; World War Z; Confession; Snoke and Kylo Ren
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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Unshaven Talkshow hosts, Pixar’s ‘Onward’ and Vatican Corona instructions
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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Fear and Faith; the Good Place; Parks and Recreation; Streaming Mass
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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Contagious patients and the sacraments; Vikings; US Elections & Star Wars Comics
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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Covid-19, Star Wars: The High Republic, The Two Popes, Lent and Fake Meat
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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Middle-earth and the Beloved Amazon
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Feb 17, 2020 |
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Stan Lee, McDonalds, Pandemic and Childhood’s End
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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Disney Town Hall, Messiah Season 1 and the Oculus Quest
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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Star Trek Picard; Obi-Wan series on hold and the Oculus Quest
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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The Witcher, The celibacy book controversy, how to read one book per week
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Jan 16, 2020 |
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The Irishman, Church closure, R5-D4, YouTube and Podcasting Plans for 2020
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Dec 14, 2019 |
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Plex Television review, Successful Aging, Saint Nicolas and setting up a 4K TV
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Dec 04, 2019 |
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Living With Yourself, Our Planet, Advent resolutions, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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The Imagineering Story; Winter Feasts and the poor; Half-Life: Alyx
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Nov 18, 2019 |
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Disney+: Christmas Morning in November!
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Nov 13, 2019 |
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Joker vs. Star Wars, For All Mankind, Faith & Science, Fantastic Beasts III and Google buys Fitbit
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Nov 04, 2019 |
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All Hallows & Saints, my ‘Joker’ review, vlogging mishap, Star Wars in trouble?
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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Second Age Tales, Raising Dion, Becoming Superman, Gratitude, Dream Projects
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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George Lucas’ Sequel Treatments, Picard & Discovery, the Amazon Synod, Old Man’s War and Ewoks
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Oct 06, 2019 |
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Spider-man stays!
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Sep 30, 2019 |
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Star Wars on Disney+, Religious Vows, Area 51, Easter Island and the iPhone 11
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Sep 18, 2019 |
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The Future of Stranger Things, Therese of Lisieux, the BTTF Test and VR Nausea
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Sep 09, 2019 |
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The Dark Crystal
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Sep 02, 2019 |
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The Rise of Skywalker
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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Ghostbusters, Jedi Celibacy, Disney+ news and Virtual Dolphins
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Aug 20, 2019 |
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Virtues and The Dark Crystal, Another Life, Stranger Things, Lego and Ireland in VR
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Aug 18, 2019 |
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Engage!
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Aug 07, 2019 |
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Why Detective Pikachu disappoints; caterpillars and the Pope; Asus Zenfone 6 review
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Jul 14, 2019 |
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Apollo 11 and the Purpose of Life
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Jul 03, 2019 |
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Men in Black International
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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The return of Obi-Wan?
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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Galaxy’s Edge, Pentecost, WWDC 2019 and Flavours of Youth
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Jun 05, 2019 |
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#MakeSolo2Happen
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Jun 02, 2019 |
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Aladdin
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May 22, 2019 |
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Marthas and Marys
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May 13, 2019 |
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Discoveries
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May 01, 2019 |
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My Avengers: Endgame SPOILER-FREE review!
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Apr 23, 2019 |
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The Notre Dame Fire in Paris
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Apr 15, 2019 |
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Vlogging with the DJI Osmo Pocket
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Mar 24, 2019 |
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My biggest podcasting dilemma
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Mar 24, 2019 |
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Why I’m an ‘evil’ priest (according to some)
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Mar 24, 2019 |
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My thoughts on Google Stadia
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Mar 24, 2019 |
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Captain Marvel
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Mar 11, 2019 |
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Make it so!
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Mar 04, 2019 |
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Angels and umbrellas
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Feb 26, 2019 |
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Thomas Aquinas, LEGO and Superheroes
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Feb 18, 2019 |
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Valentine’s Love
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Feb 13, 2019 |
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Aquaman, Star Trek Discovery and sacramentals
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Feb 04, 2019 |
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Candlemas
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Jan 28, 2019 |
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More ghost-busting? Count me in!
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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Spider-man Far From Home
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Jan 15, 2019 |
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Practically perfect in every way
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Jan 13, 2019 |