The producer, the director, and the star of this film have all mixed comedy and religion one way or another in the past. Plus: who should play Jim Bakker, Oral Roberts and other 1980s televangelists? Read more
The producer, the director, and the star of this film have all mixed comedy and religion one way or another in the past. Plus: who should play Jim Bakker, Oral Roberts and other 1980s televangelists? Read more
Mark Dornford-May, director of U-Carmen eKhayelitsha and the African Jesus movie Son of Man, has now made an adaptation of the Benjamin Britten opera Noye's Fludde. Read more
Oscar-nominated animator Minkyu Lee is one of five "rising animators" profiled by the New York Times. Read more
The studio behind Darren Aronofsky's Noah has not yet released a trailer to the public -- but a church conference in Texas got a sneak peek at the film last night! Read more
The apocalyptic shoot-'em-up Legion was one of the worst movies I've seen in the last few years. Now it's getting a follow-up series on TV. Read more
To mark the release of The Wolverine, a look back at previous James Mangold films Walk the Line and Kate & Leopold -- the latter of which starred the Wolverine himself, Hugh Jackman. Read more
The script for Darren Aronofsky's Noah certainly takes some liberties with the biblical story, but is it as subversive as some critics say? Not necessarily. Read more
Lots of films have done a poor job of adapting books, plays and other sources -- but some of them, like The Lone Ranger, go even further and actively subvert the themes of their source material. Here are a few more that come to mind. Can you think of any others? Read more
The books written by Hal Lindsey and others, warning that the world might end in the 1980s, are long out of print. But you can still buy the movie version of The Late Great Planet Earth on DVD! Read more
Franchise self-referencing takes the place of classic literature; how box-office performance affects the odds of yet another sequel; and a look back at my "Please, not Khan!" blog post from three years ago. Read more
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