Looking Closer
Yet another satisfied reader. You folks had better be careful. You might just convince me to write even more about the revelatory power of movies! Read more
Yet another satisfied reader. You folks had better be careful. You might just convince me to write even more about the revelatory power of movies! Read more
Hey, I just take the pictures. Who am I to ignore the power of what this image tells me? But seriously… I hereby announce, with an overwhelming sense of gratitude, that Auralia’s Colors has arrived. I have arrived at the destination of a journey that began when I was seven years old. I keep thinking back to all of the teachers along the way… third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade, and on… who told me that I would someday be a... Read more
I can’t tell you how happy this photo makes me. Marion Ravenwood is on the set of Indy IV. (Hollywood Elsewhere) Read more
Thanks to Andy Whitman for bringing to my attention the only Lindsay Lohan news worth reporting. (more…) Read more
WARNING: SPOILERS ARE INCLUDED IN SOME OF THESE LINKS! Here’s Christianity Today‘s Ted Olsen on the wide range of evangelical-Christian reactions to J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Meanwhile, most of the Catholic blog-coverage has treated the arrival of The Deathly Hallows as a a reason to celebrate. Mark Shea has catalogued many posts on the subject, and in our occasional conversations over lunch he enthuses about the books with gusto. Here’s Amy Wellborn‘s post, with an array of readers’ comments.... Read more
Farewell to Ulrich Mühe, a talented actor whose excellent lead performance in last year’s Oscar-winning The Lives of Others made me aware of his talent for the first time. He was 54. BBC reports that he had been struggling with stomach cancer. (Thanks to Chattaway for the alert.) (more…) Read more
Matt Damon on why J-Bourne is better than J-Bond: Bond is “an imperialist and he’s a misogynist. He kills people and laughs and sips martinis and wisecracks about it,” Damon, 36, told The Associated Press in an interview. … “Bourne is this paranoid guy. He’s on the run. He’s not the government. The government is after him. He’s a serial monogamist who’s in love with his dead girlfriend and can’t stop thinking about her,” Damon said. “He’s the opposite of... Read more
The Dardennes brothers have made some of my favorite films of the past decade — L’Enfant, The Son, and Rosetta — and now they have a new three-minute short. Thanks so much to Doug Cummings for the link. And then for thinking it through with us. Folks, watch the video¬†(with the volume turned up) before you read the commentary. Teachers, you could inspire your students by showing this and challenging them with questions about it. Something as simple as this... Read more
Jeff Berryman’s latest post is on Philip Pullman’s The Subtle Knife. He throws down the gauntlet. He invites us to a challenging conversation. I admire his ambition, patience, insight, and grace as he explores these stories. If you’ve read the books, I encourage you to answer his invitation. (Earlier: Jeff’s first post on The Golden Compass.) Read more
Approximately one hour after I turned in Cyndere’s Midnight to the publisher, my editor passed along the new Publisher’s Weekly review of Auralia’s Colors … Film critic and author Overstreet (Through a Screen Darkly) offers a powerful myth for his first foray into fiction. The kingdom of Abascar is cloaked in gloom, sentenced to an ongoing “wintering” by a jealous queen, in which colors have been done away with and are only allowed in the royal court. But young Auralia,... Read more
Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In