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SOCIAL scientists believe that the empathetic, nurturing behaviors of sisters rub off on their brothers. For example, studies led by the psychologist Alice Eagly at Northwestern University demonstrate that women tend to do more giving and helping in close relationships than men. It might also be that boys feel the impulse — by nature and nurture — to protect their sisters. Indeed, Professor Eagly finds that men are significantly more likely to help women than to help men.” –Why Men Need Women, RT The New York Times

The women plays sounding boards, while the men basically exist for the same reason that women exist in most of these other films: As sexual tools. That’s brazen, and interesting, and if The To Do List were funnier, it’d be easier to forgive the rest of the film’s weaknesses: It’s lack of emotion, the clumsy writing, the Farrelly-esque gags that occasionally veer into Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer territory. – The To Do List Review: Daring, Challenging, And Not Very Good, RT Pajiba

What happens when someone repents of their sins on their deathbed, and they don’t get to live out a life of repentance, take communion, be baptized, or attempt to walk out their days in holiness? What happens to that person? – Salvation in Your Final Hour, RT The Resurgence

Stargate SG-1 [Theatrical Movie] Trailer

Stargate SG-1 was one of the longest-running shows ever, and I have a huge amount of fondness for it. Here it is, if it were a comedy film.

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“There’s five different movies there. Let’s make all that content into one movie, and translate into emotions the things that would make guys cringe. Cool, seriously! Too emotional turns people off. They’d rather watch a bunch of people get killed in a massive action sequence. Jim Cameron is great at walking the line of emotion, heart and commercial filming. I hope people will be inspired to write and get out there and put our voice out there. [Women] need more content. Support it.” – Michelle Rodgriguez, in a Comic-con panel that included Maggie Q, Tatiana Maslany, and other female action stars- Women Kick Ass at Comic-Con, RT Indiewire

“Mike Kruger, author of Canon Revisited: Establishing the Origins and Authority of the New Testament Books (Crossway, 2012) and the forthcoming The Question of Canon: Challenging the Status Quo in the New Testament Debate (IVP, 2013), has a helpful series on the New Testament canon, linked below, “designed to help Christians understand ten basic facts about its origins.  This series is designed for a lay-level audience and hopefully could prove helpful in a conversation one might have with a skeptical friend.”– 10 Basic Facts About the NT Canon that Every Christian Should Memorize, RT The Gospel Coalition  

“I wish I still had the picture, but I will never lose the impression bestowed upon me by that generous, exultant animal on that long-ago day, when I most needed to be reminded that happiness is not an intellectual choice, it’s an instinct, and a good in itself.” – A Lesson in the Desert, RT The New York Times

Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke in “Before Midnight”

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Zachary Quinto and Zoe Saldana on the Jonathan Ross Show

Caffeinated Links: Being Single, Before Midnight, The Hobbit, J.J. Abrams

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Devastatingly accurate movie reviews, via Buzzfeed

What it’s like to be single, As Told By Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone, And Rebel Wilson

Ethan Hawke & Julie Delpy On Jesse And Celine & The Making Of Linklater’s ‘Before’ Trilogy, via The Playlist

The Hobbit’ Passes One Billion, via Mashable – Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” has joined a very special club: it is now among the 15 movies in history that have earned more than one billion dollars worldwide.

J.J. Abrams ‘Just Getting Started’ on New “Star Wars” film, via Rolling Stone. “How we were going to get there [with Star Trek], what the choices were going to be, who was going to be in it – all of those things I knew would have to be figured out, but it was all based on a foundation of this indescribable, guttural passion for something that could be. It’s a similar feeling that I have with Star Wars. I feel like I can identify a hunger for what I would want to see again and that is an incredibly exciting place to begin a project. The movies, the worlds could not be more different but that feeling that there’s something amazing here is the thing that they share.”

Funny: Honest Trailers – Les Miserables

The Honest Trailer guys have done it again..

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Everything you need to know about Game of Thrones season 3 (via Flavorwire)

The penultimate episode of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries was dizzyingly romantic and wonderful (Youtube)

First teaser trailer for the third Riddick movie (coming out 2013) is out. Not much but shadows, special effects, and Vin Diesel’s ever-impressive gravelly voice. (Trailer)

Government-encouraged hacking for high school students (The New York Times)

This basically stars everyone ever. 10 Reasons Why You Absolutely Must Check Out the BBC’s Radio Version of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere (Pajiba)

[Film]: AwesomeBox

Star Wars Episode VII poster in the style of Little Miss Sunshine
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[Film]: Movie Stars On Star Wars Episode 7

Joss Whedon, Ewan McGregor and others on whether they’d appear in JJ Abrams sequel if asked. Jason Statham says he’s not a Star Wars fan and is henceforth dead to me.