Looking Closer
Comedy writer/filmmaker Dan Merchant wrote a book called Lord, Save Us from Your Followers, chronicling what happened when he journeyed across the U.S. and asked people questions about the divisiveness of religion. (more…) Read more
Comedy writer/filmmaker Dan Merchant wrote a book called Lord, Save Us from Your Followers, chronicling what happened when he journeyed across the U.S. and asked people questions about the divisiveness of religion. (more…) Read more
I watched Noise last week. I was assigned to review it. I was excited, because it came from writer-director Henry Bean. Bean made The Believer in 2001, an intriguing movie about a neo-Nazi starring Ryan Gosling a few years back. But alas, I should have looked closer. Bean also wrote Basic Instinct 2. Sure enough, Noise is awful. The more I watched, the more I was frightened by what happened to me. While the central character slowly descended into madness... Read more
Image‘s Gregory Wolfe, with a little help from Annie Dillard, starts Monday morning off right, asking, “Is the end near?” I feel a responsibility to alert you whenever my favorite Annie Dillard book, For the Time Being, is quoted online. Read more
This week’s blue-ribbon-winning letter from a reader comes in response to my review of No Country for Old Men, which was published at CTMovies. The reader writes: (more…) Read more
Yesterday, Kenneth Morefield posted comments on Lars and the Real Girl. He gets so much of what I love about this film. And his thoughts make me eager to rent it and see it again… (more…) Read more
One week from today, I’ll be seeing Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Time for me to put aside the heavier viewing fare and relive the joys of being a wide-eyed teenager. (more…) Read more
Silva ponders Mick Silva on the voice of the Christian writer. – High King Peter of Narnia’s “small mind” In C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, High King Peter did *not* have a “small mind.” But it seems that American filmmakers are almost incapable of portraying a valiant, decisive, noble leader. It’s as if we don’t believe it’s possible anymore. Aragorn, that great king in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, was given a Hamlet-like complex, a severe insecurity, and... Read more
This is collection of reviews of The Fall that found interesting. Morehead: Throughout the film, I felt like Tarsem was trying to get my attention, to get me to notice this really alluring costume, or the angle at which he shot this stunning castle wall, or how he was able to seamlessly transition from the shot of a pinned butterfly to a deserted butterfly-shaped island. Simply put, The Fall ends up drowning in its own excesses, constantly trying way too... Read more
The Evangelical Manifesto On the remote chance that you may not already have read it, I should post the news that An Evangelical Manifesto was published and presented earlier this week, on May 7. The Steering Committee for the document includes… Timothy George Dean, Beeson Divinity School, Samford University Os Guinness Author/Social Critic John Huffman Pastor, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Newport Beach, CA Chair, Christianity Today International Rich Mouw President, Fuller Theological Seminary Jesse Miranda Founder & Director, Miranda Center... Read more
Do you have the equipment? Flannery O’Connor blogged twice this week. That’s always worth a look. And what great quotes. (more…) Read more
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