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June 2008

June 30, 2008
I'm enjoying a new feast of poetry. The new issue of DMQ Review has just...
June 26, 2008
Much as I hate to say this about the work of my favorite mainstream film...
June 26, 2008
Focus on the Family has yet to apologize for, or express affirmation for, the misleading...
June 26, 2008
As I sat braced for my ten-minute conversation with Andrew Stanton, the writer and director...
June 26, 2008
There's an Albert Schweitzer biopic on the way: Theologian, philosopher, musician, and Nobel Peace Prize-winning...
June 26, 2008
In other words... Christianity Today film critic Josh Hurst *loves* WALL-E! It's more than a...
June 25, 2008
Sam Phillips stopped in to play a show for All Songs Considered on NPR. You...
June 25, 2008
The Browser: News & links to raise your eyebrows & furrow your brow. - Thompson...
June 24, 2008
My new friend Kelly Foster just emailed this to me. It's a quote from John...
June 24, 2008
In an excellent interview, inspiring excellent answers, Mark Moring talks with Andrew Stanton. I saw...
June 23, 2008
One viewer's is pleasure is another movieger's pain. Out of the blue, an announcement was...
June 23, 2008
The Browser: News & links to raise your eyebrows & furrow your brow. Small wonders...
June 23, 2008
I knew that if Image journal ran a piece on the Sex and the City...
June 22, 2008
I'm looking forward to a chat with Pixar's Andrew Stanton, writer and director of Wall-E,...
June 21, 2008
I'm hesitant to link to a title as badly titled as this one. But, despite...
June 20, 2008
Roger Ebert is just one of the film critics singing the praises of Kit Kittredge:...
June 19, 2008
Welcome to Reader Mailstrom, a chronicle of stand-outs from the daily maelstrom of Looking Closer...
June 19, 2008
The Browser: News & links to raise your eyebrows & furrow your brow. - Gene...
June 18, 2008
I'm starting a new column, chronicling stand-outs from the daily maelstrom of Looking Closer email....
June 18, 2008
Apparently, it's fairly unusual to find a hummingbird nest... ...especially one stuffed tight with two...
June 18, 2008
Brian Volck saw There Will Be Blood for the first time on DVD. That's too...
June 17, 2008
Josh Jackson interviewed Sam Phillips recently, right at the beginning of her tour of Borders...
June 17, 2008
One week ago, beer-drinkin' believers gathered at Hale's Brewery in Seattle to discuss The Passion...
June 17, 2008
Were these the most influential role models of my childhood? Thanks to Andrew Sullivan...
June 17, 2008
As recent posts have raised some of the same questions that prompted me to write...
June 17, 2008
I'm chronicling memorable messages from the daily maelstrom of Looking Closer email. Most of these...
June 16, 2008
Same song, second verse. The following has been revised and "clarified" by request: Slater's still...
June 16, 2008
Did you flinch when Edward Scissorhands reached out? That was Stan Winston. Did your stomach...
June 16, 2008
Andy Whitman, my favorite writer at Paste Magazine, delivered a lecture at the Trinity Arts...
June 16, 2008
Is this the year that an animated movie will win the Oscar for Best Picture?...
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