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1.   The Green Knight 2.   The Suicide Squad 3.   Boiling Point 4.   Red Rocket 5.   Pig 6.   CODA 7.   Nightmare Alley 8.   The Card Counter 9.   Psycho Goreman 10. Zola

Grade A

11.   Flee 12.   The Mitchells vs. The Machines 13.   The Novice 14.   The Humans 15.   Mass 16.   Drive My Car 17.   King Richard 18.   Blue Bayou 19.   Summertime 20.   Dune 21.   The Worst Person in the World 22.   Summer of Soul 23.   A Hero 24.   Parallel Mothers 25.   Spencer 26.   Lamb 27.   A Quiet Place Part II 28.   Werewolves Within 29.   The French Dispatch 30.   The Nowhere Inn 31.   V/H/S 94 32.   Candyman 33.   Shiva Baby 34.   New York Ninja 35.   Copshop 36.   The Lost Daughter 37.   Malignant 38.   Last Night in Soho 39.   No Sudden Move 40.   The Harder They Fall 41.   In the Earth 42.   The Tragedy of Macbeth 43.   No Time to Die 44.   Coming Home in the Dark 45.   Belfast 46.   Censor 47.   Pleasure 48.   The Power of the Dog 49.   A Classic Horror Story 50.   Licorice Pizza 51.   Riders of Justice 52.   West Side Story 53.   Spider-Man: No Way Home 54.   Nobody 55.   Finch 56.   Together Together

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Grade B

57.   Bo Burnham: Inside 58.   The Courier 59.   Don’t Look Up 60.   National Champions 61.   The Night House 62.   Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 63.   Black Widow 64.   Eternals 65.   The Tender Bar 66.   Titane 67.   Benedetta 68.   Fear Street: 1666 69.   Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain 70.   Best Sellers 71.   Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin 72.   The Many Saints of Newark 73.   In The Heights 74.   Val 75.   Luca 76.   Annette 77.   F9 78.   House of Gucci 79.   The Last Duel 80.   Swan Song 81.   Cruella 82.   Queenpins 83.   Stowaway 84.   Boss Level 85.   Old Henry 86.   The Eyes of Tammy Faye 87.   Antlers 88.   Oxygen 89.   Fear Street: 1978 90.   Passing 91.   Encanto 92.   tick, tick…BOOM! 93.   C’mon C’mon 94.   Willy’s Wonderland 95.   Halloween Kills 96.   False Positive 97.   Stillwater 98.   The Forever Purge 99.   The Water Man 100.   Bingo Hell 101.   Wrath of Man 102.   Jockey 103.   Ghostbusters: Afterlife 104.   Four Good Days 105.   Mother/Android 106.   Free Guy 107.   Cyrano 108.   Chaos Walking 109.   The Boy Behind the Door

Grade C

110.   Superhost 111.   The King’s Man 112.   Black as Night 113.   Batman: Soul of the Dragon 114.   Sing 2 115.   Kate 116.   The Matrix Resurrections 117.   Wolf 118.   Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway 119.   Justice Society: World War II 120.   Being the Ricardos 121.   Escape Room: Tournament of Champions 122.   Ron’s Gone Wrong 123.   Godzilla vs. Kong 124.   The Unforgivable 125.   Silent Night 126.   Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One 127.   Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two 128.   Moxie 129.   Raya and the Last Dragon 130.   Madres 131.   Italian Studies 132.   Nine Days 133.   The Marksman 134.   Vacation Friends 135.   Till Death 136.   The Guilty 137.   Worth 138.   Encounter 139.   Fear Street: 1994 140.   Concrete Cowboy 141.   India Sweets and Spices 142.   Don’t Breathe 2 143.   Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City 144.   Army of the Dead 145.   South of Heaven 146.   Army of Thieves 147.   The Protégé

Grade D

148.   Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar 149.   American Underdog 150.   Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard 151.   Mortal Kombat 152.   Bruised 153.   Those Who Wish Me Dead 154.   Separation 155.   Mainstream 156.   Prisoners of the Ghostland 157.   Jungle Cruise 158.   Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins 159.   Demonic 160.   Joe Bell 161.   Respect 162.   Old 163.   Gunpowder Milkshake 164.   Coming 2 America 165.   Jakob’s Wife 166.   The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It 167.   Voyagers 168.   Zone 414 169.   Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse 170.   Clifford the Big Red Dog 171.   Injustice 172.   Awake 173.   The Tomorrow War

Grade F

174.   Reno 911! The Hunt for Q 175.   Home Sweet Home Alone 176.   Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage 177.   The Unholy 178.   Reminiscence 179.   Spiral: From the Book of Saw 180.   Cry Macho 181.   Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms 182.   Jolt 183.   Infinite 184.   Rumble 185.   Midnight in the Switchgrass 186.   A Journal for Jordan 187.   Venom: Let There Be Carnage 188.   The Manor 189.   The Ice Road 190.   Boogie

Bottom 10

191.   The Woman in the Window 192.   Thunder Force 193.   Tom & Jerry 194.   Space Jam: A New Legacy 195.   Zack Snyder’s Justice League 196.   Dear Evan Hansen 197.   Red Notice 198.   The Addams Family 2 199.   Habit 200.   The Boss Baby: Family Business

[carlkrogen]

The Survivor

((Warning: Snake image below))

The sandstone pillars that once belonged to the great temple of Ak’mon’tal is something to behold. I should know, I have traveled the world and I have seen a number of sights, but this, this temple to some profane god is something no one has seen in thousands of years. The dunes had swallowed it whole and now, it has been rebirthed by the sands to let people like me come and witness the wonders.

I have sailed the world and seen so many beautiful sights. From Pandaria and the Jade Forest, to Silvermoon and the remains of the glorious city. There are places no living being has crossed that I have now crossed, and each time, like this, I am left with one thought. ‘How did these people think they would be remembered?’.

It’s a common enough thought for a man like myself. My first love is learning and the questions are part of learning. The people of Ak’mon’tal thought their way of life would go on forever, only one day, it stopped. Did it end quickly or slowly was a new question that crossed my mind. From the first moment between the pillars I notice that the carvings are well intact. Taking out a stone that I placed on the pillar and let it start to circle up to copy the text for future investigations. I have questions and there are answers somewhere around here.

“Mr. Krogen.” Called a young voice from the camels. It’s the young navigator I had hired to show me to the ruins. He is probably around fifteen years old, a young wastewalker who had found a profession in leading people like me to places like this.

“Doctor.” I reminded as I looked back to the boy. I know I am a bit of a mystery to him. Since I had arrived I didn’t remove my suit or mask, the climate is too hot to leave it and I don’t tell the boy my suit actually regulates my temperature and water retention. After all, he doesn’t need to know my secrets. “I’m a Doctor.”

“Right, like the other ‘doctors’ I thought they were actual doctors.” He muttered as he looked around at the pillars. “What’s you Doctor in?”

“I’m an actual doctor.” I corrected again but pressed further to the temple. The markings on the walls tell the story of these primitive people. They thought they heard voices of their ancestors and started to build large buildings to worship them. Only a discerning eye, like myself, would notice that there was something more at play. The voices started to demand things from the people, I could tell by a pictograph of a group of people leaving offerings in front of what looked to be a large crystal. That, could be a problem.

“Doctor Krogen?” The boy asked as he continued to walk with me. “What are you looking for?”

Ah, when I am the one asking the questions, it is fine, but the boy asking me questions is worrisome. Boys like him go back to town and sell what they have learned about their employers to those who would pay. I’m not going to fall victim to that. “Go and stay by the camel, it will be safer out there than in here.”

Appealing to his sense of safety paid off as the boy didn’t bother staying a moment longer. Once his hurried footsteps were gone I made my way deeper into the temple. The sand was still lingering here and it proved more of a climb, but I know there is something interesting here. Places like this rarely are just here to be pretty art pieces for people to gawk at. In old societies these were hubs and hubs have a reason to be hubs. This is far from the dried river beds and there wasn’t a known trade root here, but the paint that barely hands on some of the carvings hinted this place was well used and care for.

It’s not until I am nearly down to the end that i feel something. It’s small, but I know the sound of this.

‘You are not whole’

A whisper, and in the moment I know what I’m dealing with. Temples like this could be for any deities, but the rogue thought turned into the truth I needed. I was in a temple built for a void entity of some sort. It appealing to my internal senses I do my best to not listen to the continued pokes.

‘You are flawed still’

“Make yourself better’

Down I go into the temple I find that in the residence of the dune some of the floor has gone missing. Below I can see the brightly colored walls and it isn’t too far of a logical guess that this part of the temple had been closed off for longer and only with the sand displaced that now the hidden part gets to be seen. It takes me no time to reach for my belt and pull rods of light. They are a simple enchantment I buy that are invaluable when I dive deep into the caves.

When I toss them down even more of the rich colorwork appears on the walls and I can’t help but notice that there is more gold in the art. This must have been for the priests or even what equivalent to nobility in this society. With some rope I was able to climbs down to the new level. But a moment before I land my feet down I notices it. That slithering tangling mess of snakes. I might have to ask, how do these slithery creatures live down here? I suppose they use this as their den but their food is above ground. Still as I look down at the snakes I find myself in a predicament. I could start swinging, but then I risk getting out of control and intimidating the snakes. The other option is to slide down and just accept that I would be fighting the snakes.

In the end I looked and noticed a platform. No matter what I would do I have to jump back after I am done with my exploration. In the end I reach into my kit and pull out several bottles that I toss around the room. When the delicate glass breaks an eruption of green fire bursts and ends the snakes that are closest to the flames, the others run for their lives. Once I see the most of them are no longer lingering below me I lower myself down and truly appreciate the room I found myself in.

The pictures in here depict sacrifices to the large stone, but these were not the food and coin from above, but the stone’s true want, souls. The images of young men and women being dragged in front of it, something being pulled out of their chest and into the stone. It’s something from the old world that many people forgot. Our world was born from machine and blood, that is what the current victors forgot. You see, it’s not the victors who write history, it’s who is alive who keeps history ‘up to date’. These markings hinted that the people who served the old gods did so with reverence and love. Maybe I am a cynic, or I have seen too much to know better, but, this is utter propaganda that the Old Gods made. I can taste it, and it tastes like shit.

My steps are light as I move down the hallway, every step is a trap, every pillar could lead to my death if I wasn’t careful. As I moved deeper down the hall the more the pictures on the walls changed. The large stone would have people inside it, and there were images of armies being destroyed with only the crystal remaining above. I wanted to admire these images, but slowly the thoughts returned.

‘Do you think you’re worthy?’

I have to keep moving, this was the part of the shadows people know about, but don’t speak about.

‘Do you even belong here?’

That was a question that had haunted me since the early days. Returning to Lordaeron and finding everything destroyed. The undead rising and starting to attack the people they once called kin. We were a nation split in two, and many just died to join their risen family. I am not so lucky. I might now belong like many of the others, but I made myself belong.

‘You will be forgotten.’

And I’m stopped, still. The only sound in the room is the slight ticking coming from somewhere muffled on my person. History is written by the survivor. We see it time and time again. Stories are told through families, then made into legends, then myths, then suddenly they are shells of what they once were. All too soon, they are forgotten. Everything is forgotten when time is infinite.

‘You will be forgotten’

Whatever has inchanted this place, it’s found the root of my fear, tugging on the weed of my mind and trying to make me see just how deep it goes. An internal pain gnaws at my bones, making me want to twist and cry out, but I don’t. Everything I’m feeling isn’t actually happening to me, this vice that wants to whisper horrifying truths is not going to win. I know what I am, and I will not be forgotten. I will be the survivor who tells the stories of others. My enemies will be forgotten, my friends will be made into gods through my legacy.

Standing back up I push these strange thoughts aside and make my way deeper. The walls are now more gold than other colors. There aren’t scenes, just one repeated motif, and that is of the crystal itself.

At the very end I see it, a glowing purple light. The Whispers are louder now, but I don’t pay attention to them, I’m so close to finding the object I need.

The end of the hallway turned into a large domed chamber. The art on the walls were in perfect detail and there was images of vast tendrils twirling up from the ground to the ceiling. At the very center was the crystal, a large pulsating rock that carried energies more powerful than I had felt in years. From what I have gathered about this crystal, it carries the souls of all the sacrifice inside, powering it so it’s user can unleash it’s horrors upon others.

I don’t want the stone though, but I do need the energy that is inside for what I am looking for. From my pouches I was able to find the object I need powered. It looked like a simple dull grey stone at first, but when I put it down and started to speak in a tongue long not heard in this chamber. The smaller stone started to glow and a dark purple beam shot out from the crystal as the stream of hundreds if not thousands of souls were heard, then, silenced. The stone I had brought started to glow into a bright purple with the souls and shadow magic, something that would get me stopped by any do-gooder who thought that the things you can’t explain were evil.

Picking up the stone, the ticking sound coming from me picks up and I whisper quietly to it. “Show me the Ruins of Zu’Narab.” The stone pulsed then a light shot out in the direction of my true location. The place where I’m going to find one of many options to be the survivor of this world.

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Christ’s Foot Soldiers - part 2

Last time we looked at how to increase our ability to facilitate other people’s entry into the kingdom of God by accepting Christ as their Savior - in short, to be better evangelizers. We also examined how to use those enhancements to introduce the gospel to those who don’t feel that they need saving.

Well, what if you approach someone who says that they want to hear what you have to say? ‘Hallelujah,’ is what you’ll probably say to yourself. Still, you don’t want to pass over the spiritual necessities they need to absorb in their heart to consummate their readiness and desire for salvation.

Whoever you’re approaching, keep your gospel-telling conversational, not a fire-and-brimstone monologue. Ask questions that give them openings to tell you what their pre-conceived beliefs are. Lead them to feel that they came to the gospel understanding on their own. That is when people are ready to believe. God can strip their egos later…

Previously, we concentrated on how better to deliver the gospel. Now, let’s spend a little time with the message itself. We might want to open with what it is that we all need saving from:

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. Jas. 4:17 ESV

“…for there is no one who does not sin…” 1 Kin. 8:46 NKJV

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Rm. 6:23 CSB

Simple. It’s death! And, we are all found guilty of practicing sin, which leads to it.

Next, we can talk to them about what is drawing their attention to salvation:

He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God]… Eccl. 3:11 AMP

God Himself is clamoring for their attention, because He loves them and wants to spend eternity with them. And He has a plan for that: salvation through Jesus Christ. It is through the blood of Christ that saves us, and the power of the Holy Spirit that brings Jesus to reside in us, when we accept Him as Savior and Lord over our lives.

Jesus came to save us from our sins. In fact, much of His earthly ministry consisted of saving the sinful in His proximity, hanging out with the outcasts.

The veracity of His divinity as the Son of God was demonstrated in His miraculous deeds, His irrefutable gospel, His sinless life, and through His resurrection.

Through Christ, we connect with God the Father, as well as the Holy Spirit, so that we have the Divine Dream Team Triumvirate living within us, caring for us and pointing us in the right way.

Christ died for you, just as much as He died for me and for everybody else. When that happened, Jesus removed all barriers between you and God by becoming your God-connection.

And [at once] the veil [of the Holy of Holies] of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom… Mt. 27:51 AMP

Therefore, believers, since we have confidence and full freedom to enter the Holy Place [the place where God dwells] by [means of] the blood of Jesus… Heb. 10:19 AMP

Thus, you get to know and have a relationship with the all-powerful, all-knowing, ever-present, eternal and changeless holy Creator of the universe. That may sound overwhelming, but there are surefire ways to have that happen.

First, God wrote the Bible through the prophets and the apostles, by way of the Holy Spirit. It tells us most of what we need to know about how He feels and what He’s like:

“The LORD, the LORD God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth (faithfulness); keeping mercy and lovingkindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin…” Ex. 34:5 – 7. AMP

The other way to know God intimately, is to know His Son, Jesus, who is an exact replica of His Father, one with Him and yet separate in a way in which in our finite understanding, do not fully fathom:

He (Jesus) is the exact living image [the essential manifestation] of the unseen God [the visible representation of the invisible], the firstborn [the preeminent one, the sovereign, and the originator of all creation. Col. 1:15 AMP

“If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.” Jn. 14:7 NKJV

Sounds great, huh? God put together this whole arrangement: Himself, His Son and the Holy Spirit, to handle a major problem: to reconcile His children who were lost to Him.

God created a perfect world, a perfect man and wife, and left us a set of perfect commandments to follow, to live a perfect life and stay in right relationship with Him.

But, because the members of humankind want to be masters of their own destinies, to be their own gods, they rebelled against God – beginning with Adam and Eve. That is called ‘sin,’ and as we saw in the beginning, the practice of sin brings death, death in the form of an eternal separation from God and His children.

In His infinite love for all of humankind, God put into action a plan that would save us from our sins. He sent His Son as a Spirit to be born of a virgin and grow to be Jesus the Savior. God worked through Him to bring you the gospel message that you are hearing. Broken down into a nutshell, it is this:

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that through Him might be saved.” Jn. 3:16, 17. NKJV

And this is the reason:

“…to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.” Acts 26:18 NASB

Did it work?

And although you were at one time estranged and alienated and hostile-minded [toward Him}, participating in evil things, yet Christ has now reconciled you [to God] in His physical body through death, in order to present you before the Father holy and blameless and beyond reproach _ [and He will do this] if you continue in the faith, well-grounded and steadfast, and not shifting away from the confident hope [that is a result] of the gospel that you have heard… Col. 1:21 – 23. AMP

Perfectly!

It is a gift from God, not something that you can earn. Jesus acquired this gift for you with His life on the cross, taking all the punishment that God would have laid upon all of humanity born throughout time, wiping out all our sins – past, present and future, by exchanging that sinless life for all the lives that would be snuffed out from the ravages of sin.

God’s gift works individually when that person comes to Christ and repents of their sins (i.e. acknowledges he or she is a sinner, exhibits true remorse with the intent to do their best not to repeat them), and to accept Jesus as who He is and what He’s done, and make Him the Lord of their life. Immediately, the sinless righteousness of Christ is transferred to them; and when God looks at him or her, He only sees that righteousness. Their price has been paid for an eternity in paradise…

…the dust returns to the earth as it once was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. Eccl. 12:7 CSB

…I saw a new heaven and a new earth…I also saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God…”Look, God’s dwelling is with humanity, and he will live with them. They will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them and will be their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; grief, crying, and pain will be no more…” Rv. 21:1 – 4. CSB

Now, talking to you, my fellow evangelizers: all these scriptures are very apropos in their sequence, but I really put them in for you, to empower you with your truth. Remember, this might be your hearer’s first time for the gospel, so be careful not to overwhelm.

Well, at this juncture, it would be good to dive right in: ‘You’ve seen the vital importance of the salvation of your soul and how to get saved. Will you accept Jesus now? Let’s kneel together and I will lead you through prayer and your salvation will be secure.’

(Time for that sinners’ prayer):

Dear God in heaven, I am a sinner, unable to save myself. I am truly sorry and will do my best not to repeat my sins. But I know that I cannot do it myself. I believe that Jesus is your Son and that He died on the cross for me and was resurrected to pay for all my sins. Please make your Son the Lord of my life, that I may receive your forgiveness and by your Holy Spirit, I ask for Jesus to take residence within me. Thank you for opening heaven so that I may live in eternity with you. In Jesus’ name I pray, amen.

Or something similar. Please, at this juncture, do not let this newbie out into the world. Either follow up with them or connect them to a church.

Be happy. The angels are rejoicing!

I know what you’re thinking, ‘What if they ask me theological questions that I have no answer for?’ We’ll handle that next time…

Goodnight and God bless.