2012-10-06T16:04:52-06:00

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Annie Dillard in The Writing Life says: (more…) Read more

2012-10-06T16:05:36-06:00

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The long, long wait for Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life continues, and I’m enjoying every delicious day of suspense. In the meantime, here’s one of the more substantial articles about it that I’ve seen. And I love this bit: (more…) Read more

2012-10-06T16:05:06-06:00

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Mercy. How am I supposed to get any work done when journals like Comment publish very distracting articles like… (more…) Read more

2012-10-06T16:05:13-06:00

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Here’s a simple three-minute explanation of Twilight‘s popularity… (more…) Read more

2012-10-06T16:07:53-06:00

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I wonder what Amenabar will say when he’s confronted with the real history of his subject. The more I read about this film, the stronger my Agora-phobia becomes. It’s just so PC to paint Christians as history’s villains. Imagine what would happen if people started rewriting history and portraying , say, homosexuals… or environmentalists… or African Americans… as responsible for crimes and atrocities that were not really their responsibility. The mainstream media would make quite an event of it, tarring... Read more

2012-10-06T16:08:19-06:00

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My pal Sean Gaffney mourns the loss of a grand opportunity: Nottingham. (more…) Read more

2012-10-06T16:08:39-06:00

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This poster says that one woman changed history. Truth is, it’s the filmmakers who changed history. Earlier, I posted a link to some strong words about the new movie called Agora. Here are more cautionary words, showing the distortion of historical details in the film, distortions that portray the storytellers’ prejudice (more…) Read more

2012-10-06T16:08:50-06:00

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Andrew O’Hehir at Salon: It would have been more merciful for writer-director Michael Patrick King to have rented Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda out to the “Saw” franchise, or to Rob Zombie, so we could watch them get shot in the head or skinned alive by Arkansas rednecks. Instead of that, we get something that’s truly sadistic: the SATC girls as haggard specters, haunted by their freewheeling ’90s past and stupefied by the demands of work, marriage and/or motherhood. This... Read more

2012-10-06T16:08:58-06:00

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From Joe Henry’s Facebook page: (more…) Read more

2012-10-06T16:09:10-06:00

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Here’s the good news at The New York Times. (more…) Read more

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