Has Terry Gilliam found his Don Quixote? Contactmusic reports that Johnny Depp is back in cahoots with Terry Gilliam as they try once again to make The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, a movie about that greatest challenger of windmills, Don Quixote. Depp worked with Gilliam on this project once before, but the production collapsed due to various catastrophes chronicled in the hilarious documentary Lost in La Mancha. But it looks like they’re ready to try again. Alas, Gilliam’s first... Read more
Anthony Lane at The New Yorker and Eric Metaxas at Books and Culture — these men are admirable and thoughtful critics. And both of them are upset about Dreamworks’ new animated movie. They think Shrek is trying to teach us that we don’t need fairy tales. With all due respect to writers whose work I have admired, I’m a little surprised that they’re missing the actual target of Shrek’s snarky and irreverent story. Let’s start at the beginning: Shrek is a somewhat subversive fairy tale about... Read more
The Enquirer sums up Over the Rhine’s 21-song set, the first live performance of their double album Ohio in its entirety. (more…) Read more
Can art mean whatever a reader or viewer or listener wants it to mean? (more…) Read more
Brian Dannelly’s satire about growing up in a Christian high school stirred up a lot of controversy and debate amongst Christians back when it opened. I reviewed it here and wrote more about it in Through a Screen Darkly. Now, Saved! is coming back. As a musical off-Broadway. Read more
Indy’s standing-o Indiana Jones IV got a standing ovation at Cannes. And Ebert thinks it was genuine. – What did C.S. Lewis have to say about mysticism? Listen to this intriguing podcast at The Kindlings Muse… William Butler Yeats once said, “The mystical life is the center of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . .” This same thing could not be said of CS Lewis, whose faith was grounded in reason.... Read more
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Over the Rhine gets to be the first act at Cincinnati’s new 4,100-seat National City Pavilion at Riverbend Music Center on Saturday. And what will they do? Play all of the songs from their sensational double album Ohio! Read more
King Lear is on the way… twice on the big screen, and then on the BBC. With Anthony Hopkins, and Ian McKellen, as Lear And Keira Knightley, and Romola Garai, as Cordelia. But who will direct? Read more
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