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Each week in The Moviegoer, Nick Olson examines new and upcoming films. I went into Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of The Great Gatsby with some reluctance. Luhrmann’s penchant for superabundant style–made famous by Moulin Rouge, whose popularity still escapes me–could go one of two ways insofar as it is a competent filmic rendering of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s [...]
Each week in The Moviegoer, Nick Olson examines new and upcoming films. Sometimes, amidst the explosions, one-liners, and frantic pace of our superhero movies, a memorably interesting image appears, however briefly. During my mostly entertaining two hours with Shane Black’s Iron Man Three (why Three, by the way?), one such image is Tony Stark sitting on [...]
Each week in The Moviegoer, Nick Olson examines new and upcoming films. During an early scene in Gorō Miyazaki’s From Up on Poppy Hill, our attention is directed to a high school in Yokohama, Japan. Poppy Hill tells the story of 16 year old Umi Matsuzaki who, in this particular scene, is sitting outside enjoying lunch with [...]
Each week in The Moviegoer, Nick Olson examines new and upcoming films. An essential image in Derek Cianfrance’s latest film, The Place Beyond the Pines, is of roughened, local-star stuntman Luke Glanton (Ryan Gosling) sitting idly on his motorcycle at a traffic light intersection, looking up at the looming TrustCo Bank. It’s one of the few [...]
Each week in The Moviegoer, Nick Olson examines new and upcoming films. I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. [Psalm 143:6] Blessed God, Israel’s God, the one and only wonder-working God! Blessed always his blazing glory! All earth brims with his glory. Yes and Yes and Yes. [...]
Each week in The Moviegoer, Nick Olson examines new and upcoming films. Editor’s Note: This is Not a Film is available via Netflix DVD service. One of Iran’s acclaimed directors, Jafar Panahi, is arrested on March 1, 2010. Often critical of the Iranian government, Panahi is charged with collusion with the intent of committing crime against [...]
Each week in The Moviegoer, Nick Olson examines new and upcoming films. Editor’s Note: Planet of Snail is available via Netflix DVD service. Part of the 2-becoming-1 processional act that is marital life is the presence of daily obstacles or tasks that a husband and wife partake in together. Often it’s a matter of divvying up [...]
Each week in The Moviegoer, Nick Olson examines new and upcoming films. ***Spoiler Alert*** Set with great effect to a memorably haunting Thomas Newman score, Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects begins as a puzzle to be pieced together by giving the viewer a flash-forward glimpse of an apartment floor spoiled with fresh blood. The film is framed [...]
Each week in The Moviegoer, Nick Olson examines new and upcoming films. Confession: I love lists. I love making to-do lists, favorites lists, even grocery lists. All kinds of lists. I’m that person with a computer home screen filled with those little electronic notepad stickies–and my computer sits on a desk with various material notepad stickies [...]
Each week in The Moviegoer, Nick Olson examines new and upcoming films. This week, Image released a Top 25 Films About Marriage list as voted on by the Arts and Faith community. You can read an excellent introduction to the list written by my Filmwell colleague, Michael Leary. I am privileged to have had the opportunity [...]
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