Looking Closer
Casting has begun for the Scorsese-directed HBO series: (more…) Read more
Casting has begun for the Scorsese-directed HBO series: (more…) Read more
Anyone who can write an inspiring piece linking Rosencrantz and Guldenstern, The Hidden Fortress, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and R2D2, has my full attention. Ladies and gentlemen, Mark Shea! Read more
If you’ve been reading my blog for long, you know I’m a big fan of my wife Anne. I’m also a big fan of her poetry. Apparently I’m not the only one. She was just nominated for a Pushcart Prize. (more…) Read more
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My pal Ron Reed posted this quote over at ArtsandFaith.com. I’d read it before in one of my favorite C.S. Lewis volumes, Letters to Children, but it’s always a good reminder for writers, whether they’re beginners or not… In writing, don’t use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you’re describing. I mean, instead of telling us a thing was terrible, describe it so that we’ll feel terrified. Don’t say it was delightful;... Read more
This parody of Twilight takes only a few minutes to read, and it’s much more entertaining than the film (in my opinion, anyway). There are links strewn throughout that lead to even more funny stuff, many of which are just excerpts straight from the book. (Check out The Catalog here.) Yes, it’s chock full of spoilers, so if you want the movie to surprise you, run away. I suspect that Twilight‘s going to rank among the most-parodied films of all... Read more
Mel Gibson is still in trouble for how he handled The Passion of the Christ. Screenwriter Benedict Fitzgerald is suing Gibson, claiming he was underpaid for his work on “Passion.” Fitzgerald’s attorneys claimed Tuesday that his payments were eroded by Gibson’s spending habits while filming the movie in Italy, including “tens of thousands” of dollars on his children’s education and a $78,000 chiropractor bill. Read more
Steven Greydanus offers an insightful interpretation of the Twilight phenomenon. Now that’s what I’m talking about! – Roger Ebert: Death to Film Critics! Hail to the CelebCult! Read more
TWO POEMS BY MARGARET D. SMITH Pavel talks to me over lunch My farmhouse is away, so far from Prague there are no planes, not even cars. You can hear everything that way. The pigeons make love on rooftops, workers talk in fields, bees make sounds like music far off. My grandfather loved bees. He left Prague to live in that farmhouse to raise bees: bees in boxes, bees in fields. When he died he left me his farmhouse. The... Read more
Christian Culture’s Court Jester: A Note of Thanks to Steve Taylor This reflection on the work of Steve Taylor was originally intended as part of the chapter on comedy in Through a Screen Darkly. • Directed by the Court Jester of Christian Rock As a teenager, I was disillusioned with the relentless, unflinching solemnity and superficiality of most contemporary Christian music. A great deal of what I heard on Christian radio amounted to a tiresome program of redundant, shallow praises;... Read more
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