Looking Closer
“Let them eat cake.” That’s a quote commonly attributed to Marie Antoinette, but a quick Google search will teach you that this isn’t really the truth. We’re not sure who said it. (more…) Read more
“Let them eat cake.” That’s a quote commonly attributed to Marie Antoinette, but a quick Google search will teach you that this isn’t really the truth. We’re not sure who said it. (more…) Read more
[A severely abridged version of this review was previously published at Christianity Today, and it did not end up representing the perspective I presented in my original draft. Here is the original, unabridged review.] • In Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly, Keanu Reeves plays “Agent Fred,” an undercover officer in America’s war on drugs. He’s so deeply undercover that he’s become a drug addict himself, losing touch with reality. So the irony is painful when Agent Fred is ordered to... Read more
NEWMAN ON FOXFAITH Marc T. Newman challenges Christian filmmakers to seize the day. A SCI-FI CLASSIC Thomas Hibbs at The National Review celebrates one of my favorite sci-fi novels: A Canticle for Leibowitz. SOAKING IN VERSES FROM MATTHEW Jesus supercharges one man’s zeal to help the poor, and once again, he does this through the ministry of Bono. “Bono doesn’t have a lot of respect for the church, but he has a lot of respect for Christ,” Jewett said, adding... Read more
My blogging might be slight this week, due to a pile-up of tasks. (more…) Read more
Were we seeing “the real Mel Gibson” when he went on his drunken rampage? (more…) Read more
At GetReligion, Terry Mattingly is facing the Giants dilemma. (more…) Read more
The great rock-and-roll pioneer David Byrne attended a Sufjan Stevens concert this month. What did he think? (more…) Read more
This review was originally published at Christianity Today in October 2006. – Ever watch moths fluttering around bright lights at night and ask yourself, “Don’t they know that they’ll burn themselves up?” And yet, so many of us play out the same sad drama. Restless with longing, we respond to dangerous temptations and indulge misguided passions. And then we — and sometimes our families — pay for it. This metaphor comes to vivid life in Todd Field’s riveting new film Little... Read more
Some Christianity Today Movies readers have sent in some very angry mail in response to Josh Hurst‘s review of Facing the Giants. They’re saying things like (and I quote…) Shame, shame, shame on you for giving Facing the Giants a bad review! I’ve heard that Christianity Today is anti-Christian. Now, I believe it! Yep. “Anti-Christian.” Christianity Today is “anti-Christian” because a guy wrote that there are some flaws in a movie made by Christians. Correct me if I’m wrong, but... Read more
Tony Watkins has just published a short but sharp perspective on the tension between Phillip Pullman’s perspective and work, and C.S. Lewis’s perspective and work. Philip Pullman’s hostility towards The Chronicles of Narnia is a very strong reaction to a mere story, even if it is perhaps over-revered by some. Yes, Lewis’s work contains some serious flaws, but the real problem seems to be that it is a story which expresses and argues for a worldview completely antithetical to Pullman’s.... Read more
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