{"id":2621,"date":"2005-09-02T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-02T08:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2005\/09\/a-sound-of-gardener-the-reviews-are-up\/"},"modified":"2005-09-02T08:40:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-02T08:40:00","slug":"a-sound-of-gardener-the-reviews-are-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2005\/09\/a-sound-of-gardener-the-reviews-are-up.html","title":{"rendered":"A Sound of Gardener &#8212; the reviews are up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">My reviews of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/movies\/reviews\/constantgardener.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Constant Gardener<\/a><\/i> and <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/movies\/reviews\/soundofthunder.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">A Sound of Thunder<\/a><\/i> are now up at CT Movies.  How bad is the latter film?  For the first time ever, my wife asked me, half an hour into the movie, if she could go home.  (<a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/fun-with-google-maps.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">We live<\/a> just four blocks away from <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?spn=0.011942,0.030006&amp;t=h&amp;saddr=1333+hornby+street+vancouver+bc&amp;daddr=900+burrard+street+vancouver+bc&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">the theatre<\/a>.)  I, of course, had to stay to review the movie.  And when I got home, I found my wife watching <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/stores\/series\/-\/738\/dvd\/petertchatta\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Buffy<\/a><\/i> episodes.  I can\u2019t say I blame her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In other news, the full version of <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/scott-derrickson-interview.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">my interview<\/a> with <i>The Exorcism of Emily Rose<\/i> director Scott Derrickson is now up, too.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My reviews of The Constant Gardener and A Sound of Thunder are now up at CT Movies. How bad is the latter film? For the first time ever, my wife asked me, half an hour into the movie, if she could go home. (We live just four blocks away from the theatre.) 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