The Golden Compass — two last items

The Golden Compass isn’t quite out of my system — or, rather, the systems for which I provide commentary — yet.

First, I wrote about the film for my final regular column for ChristianWeek; it appears in the issue dated January 1, but it is up at their website now. I wrote this article after the film came out a few weeks ago, so it is the first of my published comments to take the film’s poor box-office performance into account.

Second, I discussed the film with Lorna Dueck of Listen Up TV; the interview begins about eight minutes into the video file there. It was broadcast just this past weekend, but it was recorded two days before the film came out — right after I attended a press screening of There Will Be Blood, of all things — hence my comments about the film’s box-office performance are purely speculative.