Wednesday’s specials: REMEMBER WHEN I ASKED WHO WILL MAKE A MOVIE OF THE NATIVITY? This just popped up at Done Deal, the script sales site: Title: Nativity Log line: Centers on the two-year period of Mary and Joseph’s life, culminating in their leaving Nazareth and journeying 100 miles to Bethlehem for the birth of Jesus. Key characters and events such as King Herod, John the Baptist’s parents (Zachariah and Elizabeth), the shepherds who were witness to Jesus’ birth; and the... Read more
Today I received this letter in response to my Brokeback Mountain review. Its typical of other responses I’ve received, but this one was such a convenient distillation of the various contradictions and claims that I was grateful for the chance to address so many common attacks on Christian faith in one fell swoop. When someone starts out by telling you to put down your Christian persepctive and see things the way they are, well, you know you’re in for a... Read more
Read the outpouring of grief over the cancellation of The Book of Daniel. Apparently, it was Evangelical Right-Wing Extremist Censorship that shut down the show. (more…) Read more
WHAT I’M SEEING TODAY Tsotsi. Anybody else here seen it? IS KEIRA KNIGHTLEY’S SMILE DANGEROUS? Can you look away from that smile? It has a strange and dismaying power. I mean, look at her! There’s something almost violent about that smile. She’s she’s brandishing a weapon with complete confidence that no one can withstand its power… Slap some green makeup on her, and you’ve got the sequel to 28 Days Later. [Graham Chapman voice] RUN AWAY!!![/Graham Chapman voice] I await... Read more
Here are the best films of 2005, according to Decent Films, along with some commentary about significant developments of the year. Read more
Monday specials: SUNDANCE ME TO THE END OF MEDIOCRE FILMS GreenCine coverage of the Sundance Film Festival is almost too expansive to comprehend. So many movies, so many reviews. From a review of Thank You for Smoking that calls it “I Heart Huckabees For Dummies,” to a review of the intriguingly titled A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, to a review of Leonard Cohen I’m Your Man … they’re all over it. NEW WORLD‘S NEW RAVE Adam Walter joins me... Read more
Spielberg defends his movie… “Munich” was blasted by some US Jewish commentators who accused Spielberg of equating the Israeli assassins with the Palestinian militants. Spielberg dismissed the charges as “nonsense”. “These critics are acting as if we were all missing a moral compass. Of course it is a horrible, abominable crime when people are taken hostage and killed like in Munich,” he said. “But it does not excuse the act when you ask what the motives of the perpetrators were... Read more
You go, Gaffney…. The Jesus of THE BOOK OF DANIEL would never say, “Go and sin no more.” He would only say, “Go.” Read more
Scott Cunningham reveals the evidence pointing to Disney’s purchase of Pixar. Shazbot. And I’d been saving for so long… Oh well, at least I can afford one more peppermint mocha at Starbucks before the season’s over. Wait… the season’s over??! I concur with Scott’s comments: May God watch over Pixar, the finest American filmmaking studio. Long may their perfect record stand. Read more
Seattle Seahawk Sunday specials: SAM ROCKWELL IS (not)… BATMAN! If you really want to see what happens when Sam Rockwell puts on a Batman suit, click here, then click on the image from the film. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. (PG-13-level content) THE MUNICH WARS GreenCine Daily rounds up the latest bulletins. Screenwriter Tony Kushner starts it off saying, In the last month, the co-creators of Munich have been accused of being apologists for the Palestinians, apologists for Israel,... Read more
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