The Seeker — the interview’s up!

Last updated on: October 20, 2007 at 8:30 pm By Peter T. Chattaway

My interview with David L. Cunningham, director of The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising, is now up at BC Christian News. The article may seem a little past its sell-by date, since the movie opened two weeks ago, but the interview took place several days after the film came out — a fact that is reflected in the interview itself — and this was the soonest that the paper could post the article online. Read more

What else can I say, Dumbledore is gay.

Last updated on: October 19, 2007 at 11:43 pm By Peter T. Chattaway

Seriously. Only a few days after she revealed that her books were always meant to have a Christian subtext, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has revealed that Albus Dumbledore, the beloved Hogwarts headmaster, was gay. Quoth the Associated Press: Harry Potter fans, the rumors are true: Albus Dumbledore, master wizard and Headmaster of Hogwarts, is gay. J.K. Rowling, author of the mega-selling fantasy series that ended last summer, outed the beloved character Friday night while appearing before a full house... Read more

The Purple Rose of Cairo — how close-ups bring us face-to-“face” with the movie screen

Last updated on: January 1, 2017 at 4:48 pm By Peter T. Chattaway

This post is my contribution to the Close-Up Blog-a-thon hosted by Matt Zoller Seitz at his blog, The House Next Door. Warning: There be spoilers here. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) concludes with a close-up — indeed, arguably, an exchange of close-ups — that brings Woody Allen’s finest film to an interesting and ambiguous end. The movie is set in New Jersey during the Great Depression, and it concerns a woman named Cecilia (Mia Farrow) who frequently escapes from... Read more

The Ten Commandments — the review’s up!

Last updated on: October 19, 2007 at 9:03 am By Peter T. Chattaway

My review of the animated version of The Ten Commandments is now up at CT Movies. Read more

Review: The Ten Commandments (dir. Bill Boyce & John Stronach, 2007)

Last updated on: November 28, 2013 at 9:47 am By Peter T. Chattaway

Another year, another Moses movie. Cecil B. DeMille made two movies called The Ten Commandments — one in 1923, during the silent era, and the other in 1956, starring Charlton Heston and a whole lot of deliciously campy dialogue — so it only makes sense that others would continue to tell this story, even to the point of recycling the title. In the past few years alone, we have seen a TV mini-series called The Ten Commandments as well as... Read more

A glimpse into the Prince Caspian movie.

Last updated on: October 18, 2007 at 11:10 pm By Peter T. Chattaway

ComingSoon.net just posted a handful of interviews with some of the key actors in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Naturally, the quotes I gravitate to are the ones that hint at how the story may have been changed from the original book. First, the interview with Ben Barnes (Prince Caspian): CS: Is there anything specifically in the book about Caspian that’s inspired you?Barnes: Specifically in the book, I don’t know. I guess some of the earlier chapters where he’s... Read more

Star Trek XI — casting round-up

Last updated on: October 18, 2007 at 2:51 pm By Peter T. Chattaway

Now that all the actors are in place for the main characters in J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Star Trek movie, here is a list of the characters, the actors who created them in 1966 (although Spock was first played by Leonard Nimoy in the unaired 1964 pilot episode, and Chekov was added to the show in 1967), the actors who will play them in the new movie, and the age gaps between them: James T. Kirk — William Shatner, 35 —... Read more

Yet another movie not screened for critics?

Last updated on: October 18, 2007 at 10:15 am By Peter T. Chattaway

Last night when I went to see another movie, I saw a poster for The Comebacks that mentioned its October 19 release date, and I realized that that was tomorrow and I had not yet heard of any screenings for it. And sure enough, there are currently no reviews of this film up at Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic, two sites that normally would have something by now, and newspapers like the LA Weekly and the Beacon News in Chicago confirm... Read more

Newsbites: Trek! Wolverine! Rowling! Scorpion!

Last updated on: October 17, 2007 at 11:13 pm By Peter T. Chattaway

Time for another batch of quickies. 1. The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed the rumours and says it’s true: Karl Urban and Chris Pine will play Dr. Leonard H. McCoy and Captain James T. Kirk, respectively, in Star Trek XI. 2. Variety reports that Wolverine has been postponed — again — to May 2009, and it has a newer, longer title: X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Hmmm, do you think they’re gonna make any other “origin” movies featuring characters from this series? Liev... Read more

The Kite Runner — is it safe for all audiences, or should it be restricted?

Last updated on: October 16, 2007 at 2:31 pm By Peter T. Chattaway

The ratings in British Columbia are almost always more lenient than the ratings in the United States. Many films that get R ratings south of the border are rated 14-A up here, and some are even rated PG — usually because the only thing “objectionable” about them is the four-letter words or a few seconds of nudity. Occasionally, however, a film will get a slightly stricter rating up here. Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996; my comments), for example,... Read more