UPDATE 2010: Looking back at my original review for Fight Club, I find my feelings haven’t changed about it… except in one significant way. The conclusion of the film is much, much more disheartening. It portrays a calamity that, at the time of the film’s release, seemed over-the-top and incredibly bleak. Apocalyptic, even. Well, a couple of years after the film came out, we came to know calamity just like that. And so, what was once a sort of absurd... Read more
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Here is a two-part conversation about The Secret of Kells, published in the Good Letters blog at Image journal: Part One and Part Two Read more
Here’s a four-minute video of Wendell Berry responding to the oil spill. And here’s what Brian Volck says about the disaster in today’s Good Letters post: (more…) Read more
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Variety reports: Mpower Pictures (“The Stoning of Soraya M.”) and Beloved Pictures are teaming to co-produce C.S. Lewis’ fantasy novel “The Great Divorce.” Veteran producer and Mpower CEO Steve McEveety will lead the production team. Childrens’ book author N.D. Wilson (“Leepike Ridge,” “100 Cupboards”) is attached to write. Lewis, who wrote the “Chronicles of Narnia” books and often wove Christian themes into his works, published “The Great Divorce” in 1945. Story centers on a man who learns that the sprawling,... Read more
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