My favorite album of last year, A Boot and a Shoe, was born from divorce. It was a heartbreaker. This year, what may well be my favorite album has come from a marriage that's been saved. … [Read more...]
Joke of the Day (except that it’s true)
March 4, 2005 By 10 Comments
I'm not making this up. This just happened to me. I was contacted this morning by someone who works for one of the three major news networks. They wanted me to come downtown and film a segment for a TV news talk-show addressing the question, "Is the media anti-religious?" I prepared. I pondered. I was ready. Here was the basic idea of my planned reply: "'The media (if we must use such a vast generalization, like "Hollywood" or "Democrats" or "Republicans") tends to go with whatever … [Read more...]
If You’ve Seen Born into Brothels…
March 4, 2005 By 1 Comment
... then I suspect this will boggle your mind. It boggled mind. … [Read more...]
Be Cool (2005)
March 4, 2005 By
This review was originally published in March 2005 at Christianity Today. - Be Cool, directed by F. Gary Gray (The Italian Job), tries to strike the cocky pose of its 1995 predecessor, Barry Sonnenfeld's Get Shorty, and other show-biz satires like The Player. But above all, it alludes to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, with its dimwitted gangsters, glamorous ne'er-do-wells, gunslinging face-offs, painful ironies, and its centerpiece John Travolta/Uma Thurman dance floor flourish. So, … [Read more...]
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