This Observer article finds several comedy experts reminiscing about their laugh-out-loud favorites. And the collection gets four cheers from me for giving credit to four both of my all-time favorite comedies: Midnight Run and Raising Arizona (both in my all-time Top Ten movies, period) and Fletch and This is Spinal Tap. Read more
Dad, Happy Father’s Day! But before you settle in with a good book, let me say a few words of thanks… Here you are in your dorm room at Seattle Pacific, back in your university days. What a journey it must have been, from a childhood in Mossyrock, Washington to school in the big city. Thanks for being such a great student in school. Your enthusiasm for studying, and your confidence that education would only uphold and affirm your Christian... Read more
And here it is. Wow. What a powerful little teaser. Gives me flashbacks to the ’80s… Short Circuit and E.T., specifically. And this one’s directed by Andrew Stanton, who gave us Finding Nemo. I can’t wait. As I work on stories in The Auralia Thread, I often find myself stopping to ask, “What would Pixar do?” The quality of their storytelling is their strongest virtue, and that’s saying a lot considering they produce the best digitally animated movies in the... Read more
“What books were to previous generations, movies are to the present one; their ability to teach and shape our view of reality is unparalled by any other medium. Christians can’t afford to be ignorant of the content and power here, and Through a Screen Darkly provides and excellent guide.” – Frederica Mathewes-Green, author of At the Corner of East and Now, Facing East: A Pilgrim’s Journey into the Mysteries of Orthodoxy, and film reviewer for The New Republic Read more
Leif Hansen is a curious fellow. Curious in that he asks a lot of questions. So it’s a good thing that he’s got a podcast, and special guests to field his questions. (more…) Read more
Here’s Andrew O’Hehir on “the abortion movie nobody wants to see (but everyone probably should).” (more…) Read more
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Late last night, after a long day of work on Cyndere’s Midnight, the sequel to Auralia’s Colors, I wearily wandered over to the three-dollar-a-ticket discount theater several blocks from my house and caught the 9:30 show of Away from Her. Which was wonderful for many reasons… more on that some day soon. But what I really want to tell you about is this: one of those “I Love Seattle” moments. I got in the long line of folks who were... Read more
I saw Ratatouille today. Finally… a summer movie that delivers. That enchants. That makes you glad to be a moviegoer. And how could you have expected anything less? It’s a movie from the mind of Brad Bird and the animation wizards at Pixar. Of course it’s a joy! I’ll be writing my review this week, and it’ll show up at ChristianityTodayMovies.com on opening day. Read more
Nappaland has published the latest recommendation for Through a Screen Darkly. (more…) Read more
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