My review of Save Me — a movie about an “ex-gay” ministry starring Chad Allen, the gay actor who starred in the Christian movie End of the Spear (2005) — is now up at CT Movies. Read more
My review of Save Me — a movie about an “ex-gay” ministry starring Chad Allen, the gay actor who starred in the Christian movie End of the Spear (2005) — is now up at CT Movies. Read more
Hat tip to Amid Amidi, from whom I stole this headline. Read more
Time to get a few more backlogged items off my plate. 1. Has it really been two years since Guillermo Del Toro first talked about directing a Tarzan movie? Oh well, a little thing called The Hobbit got in the way, and now the producers of the Tarzan movie are thinking of getting someone else to direct. Someone like … Stephen Sommers. Ugh. — Variety, Hollywood Reporter 2. The judge presiding over the Watchmen lawsuit between Fox and Warner has... Read more
Time to get a few backlogged items off my plate. 1. MTV Splash Page has deemed this “Magdalena Week”, in honour of the upcoming movie based on the comic book about a female superhero who is descended from Jesus and Mary Magdalene. In today’s introductory post, actress Jenna Dewan says the film will downplay the character’s Catholic background, making her more of a “spiritual” fighter than a “religious” fighter. — MTV Splash Page 2. Rex Mundi creator Arvid Nelson has... Read more
Hat tip to Simply Victoria. Read more
Here are the figures for the past weekend, arranged from those that owe the highest percentage of their take to the Canadian box office to those that owe the lowest. Death Race — CDN $3,160,000 — N.AM $23,142,000 — 13.7%Mamma Mia! — CDN $16,430,000 — N.AM $131,450,000 — 12.5%Tropic Thunder — CDN $9,020,000 — N.AM $83,839,000 — 10.8%The House Bunny — CDN $2,940,000 — N.AM $27,851,000 — 10.6%Pineapple Express — CDN $7,880,000 — N.AM $79,883,000 — 9.9%Babylon A.D. — CDN... Read more
Someone had to make this connection — and while I did think of it earlier today, RC at Strange Culture wrote it up first: Mac MacGuff: And this, of course, is Juno.Mark Loring: Like the city in Alaska.Juno MacGuff: No. What I want to know is why so many people seem to think that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin‘s family-values cred is compromised by her teenaged daughter’s pregnancy, given that so many pro-lifers were very eager to claim Juno — the... Read more
“Didn’t any of you guys ever go to Sunday school?” So said Indiana Jones to a couple of bemused military intelligence agents in Raiders of the Lost Ark, easily the top-grossing film of 1981 and one of the greatest action movies ever made. And thus producer George Lucas and director Steven Spielberg seemed to make explicit what had only been implicit in the handful of films that they had made over the previous few years — films that had captured... Read more
For several years the members of Sherwood Baptist Church have had a vision: “To touch the world from Albany, Georgia.” And thanks to the power of mass media, this church of about 3,000 members — located in a city of only 80,000 or so — has been able to do just that. Through its media ministry, the church has already produced two feature-length films with an all-volunteer cast and a mostly-volunteer crew. Given their incredibly low budgets, both films —... Read more
I finally got around to watching the “director’s cut” of Dark City (1998; my article) a few days ago, and as is often the case with these things, I liked some of the changes and didn’t care all that much for some of the other changes. Maybe some day I’ll make a “viewer’s cut”, just for me, that keeps some of the old bits but includes some of the new bits. The “director’s cut” is close enough to the previous... Read more
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