Carmen Andres at In the Open Space notes that the Fox Faith Movies website now lists a film called The Final Inquiry that is due to come out April 6, i.e. on Good Friday. No films with that title are currently listed at the IMDB, but the plot synopsis — the Roman emperor sends an agent to Palestine to disprove rumours of Jesus’ resurrection — sounds an awful lot like that remake of The Inquiry that premiered in Italy just... Read more

My review of The Last Sin Eater is now up at CT Movies. Read more

And it won’t be directed by John Lasseter. Variety has the scoop. Read more

It turns out Ghost Rider might be screened for critics after all — at least in Los Angeles — though I still haven’t got my invitation. In the meantime, it looks like Daddy’s Little Girls, which opens six days from now, will also pretty much be giving critics the cold shoulder. Ryan Stewart at Cinematical reports that they “recently received an invitation to screen the upcoming film from the ludicrous Tyler Perry — the day the film opens, and not... Read more

Jeffrey Overstreet is taking a break from doing the CT Movies Film Forum for a couple weeks, so I’m filling in for him, and the second round-up is up today, covering the reactions of Christian critics to The Messengers, Because I Said So, Factory Girl, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, Smokin’ Aces and God Grew Tired of Us. It felt a little weird to write this summary, since I have seen only one of these films myself... Read more

NarniaWeb.com reports that Warwick Davis — whose roles include an Ewok in Return of the Jedi (1983) and its TV spin-offs, a Hogwarts professor in the Harry Potter movies (2001-2007, so far) and the title role in Willow (1988) — is going to play Nikabrik the Black Dwarf in next year’s The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. The interesting thing is, Davis has already appeared in another version of Prince Caspian — i.e., the 1989 BBC version which combined this... Read more

Lou Lumenick at the New York Post writes: It wasn’t totally surprising to learn today that Sony isn’t planning to show critics “Ghost Rider,” which opens a week from Friday. The latest Marvel Comics blockbuster starring Nicolas Cage, which carries a pricetag of $120 million, may well be the most expensive event movie movie to receive this treatment, which tends to embarass the talent involved. You may recall that Nicolas Cage’s last movie, a remake of The Wicker Man, was... Read more

Last week, CT Movies posted its list of the ten “most redeeming” films of the past year. Today, we posted “The 2006 Critics’ Choice Awards” — and just for the record, I didn’t cast any votes whatsoever for the #1 film, but since last year’s list was topped by my personal favorite of that year, I won’t complain too much. Read more

Did I mention it was the twins’ birthday two days ago? Probably not. (That picture was taken over a month ago, though.) It has been a year since they were born. A whole year. And since my wife went back to work two weeks ago, I now find myself juggling the whole movie-critic thing with the parenting thing — and it’s been an interesting experience. I was telling someone the other day that the twins have been getting in the... Read more

There are many more items I would like to sift through and post here, but this tiny handful will have to do for now. 1. Jesus Camp comes out on DVD tomorrow — and I just noticed that the back of the box says the deleted scenes will include “Additional Ted Haggard Sermon Footage”. Prepare to cringe. 2. Greg Wright, of the Past the Popcorn movie site, offers his own interesting take on the Hobbit fracas at TheOneRing.net. 3. Toronto... Read more