Looking Closer
Okay, since superhero-movie season is almost over… Share with us your Top 5 superhero movies, and give a sentence or two summarizing why you’ve picked them. (more…) Read more
Okay, since superhero-movie season is almost over… Share with us your Top 5 superhero movies, and give a sentence or two summarizing why you’ve picked them. (more…) Read more
And another of my favorite critics comes away from Superman Returns disappointed. (more…) Read more
One of my favorite albums of the last ten years, and one of the hardest to get hold of, is now available to the world on iTunes and CDBaby. CDBaby sums it up like this: “Melodic folk rock warmly visited by acoustic instruments like cello, violin, trombone and upright bass featuring layered songs that play like stories in a redemption record that is meant to be listened to as a whole.” (more…) Read more
Joining such insightful reviewers as J. Robert Parks, Ron Reed, and Stef Loy, who have contributed guest reviews to Looking Closer in the past, I’m pleased to share some new reviews by Kenneth R. Morefield, Ph.D., who writes at Viewpoint. (more…) Read more
Chattaway: So much has been made of Kal-El as a Christ figure that little attention is ever paid to the kind of Christ figure that he is. You often hear people argue that Superman raises Lois Lane from the dead in the first movie (though one could also argue that he merely goes back in time to a point before her death and does not actually raise her from the dead, per se). But what people often don’t point out... Read more
Other reviewers and geek-sters are bursting through the gate with ecstatic, hyperbolic, joyous reviews of the Pirates of the Caribbean sequel. You-know-who… Mr. “I’m first with every review”… is raving and raving about it. (more…) Read more
A responsible and principled film critic will follow a few simple rules: (more…) Read more
Superman Returns is a summer blockbuster. Chances are, you won’t be bored. But if… if you find your mind wandering during the film, here are ten things you can do to pass the time: (more…) Read more
Sure to be one of the year’s best, Three Times is the latest from Hou Hsiao-hsien, whose film Cafe Lumiere is one of the best I’ve seen in the past few years. (more…) Read more
Okay, I’ve just seen a promising 90-minute highlight reel for an X-Men movie. It was wild! A beautiful lake exploded, and Jean Grey came back from the dead! Magneto declared war on humanity! And the heroes were joined by a big, blue, furry fellow who sounds like TV’s Frasier! Wait… that wasn’t a long preview? That was the movie? (more…) Read more
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