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March 2009

March 10, 2009

Quick Movie Warnings

WatchmenWE WALKED OUT.Awful. Disgusting. Degrading. Vile. Barbarous.The kind of entertainment the Roman mobs were watching...

February 2009

February 26, 2009

Kudos for Act One Alumni!

A feature written and produced by Act One alumni Rajeev Sigamoney (WP '02) and Dan...

February 23, 2009

Oscar Night Thread

I'm teaching today and then am going to have to disappear most of the week...

February 19, 2009

Grand Torino

I shocked myself this week by really enjoying Clint Eastwood's latest offering Gran Torino. I...

February 15, 2009

BSG Season 4 Update

Very, very spoilery. You've been warned.There have been some undeniably brilliant moments in the last...

January 2009

January 28, 2009

An Actor Tells the Truth

Here is an astounding piece by actor, Gary Graham (Star Trek: Enterprise), posted over at...

January 17, 2009

BSG: “Sometimes a Great Notion”

Sometimes I live in the country Sometimes I live in the town Sometimes I get...

January 07, 2009

More Quick Movie Reviews

Still making my way through the stack of award screeners. I wish I could say...

December 2008

December 27, 2008

Quick Movie Reviews

Happy Christmas everybody! I got back from Portugal on the 21st, and since have been...

November 2008

November 30, 2008

Rachel Going Nowhere

Just so bad. Sooooooooo bad. I think the point here was for Anne Hathaway to...

November 30, 2008

Crikey, mate! What a total mess!

I remember when I was in Australia last year that somebody explained to me the...

November 21, 2008

Helping You Help Me

We have a major star who is interested in playing Herod the Great in the...

November 19, 2008

BSG Freaking Out

Okay, back to what's REALLY important....The IMDB page for the much anticipated last ten episodes...

November 10, 2008

Shaken Awake by The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

I'm in the Phoenix airport and the Wi-Fi here is uneven (- which I find...

October 2008

October 20, 2008

Pithy Movie Ratings for Busy Culture Watchers

I have been seeing a few movies lately, but there really hasn't been anything that...

October 20, 2008

Nearly Every Thought I’ve Ever had in My Head…

This past May, I had the honor of participating in a four day conference in...

October 19, 2008

Story Conference Debrief

I'm really tired here and I can't take long as I am meeting dear friend...

October 09, 2008

Story Conference Prepping

I'm doing a lot of Flannery reading in preparation for our Story Conference next week....

October 01, 2008

The Duchess Lacks Pedigree

It looks lovely. So, lovely, you almost forgive the fact that this is a one...

August 2008

August 28, 2008

On Art and Healing the World

[NB FROM BARB: A friend sent me this and asked me to post it. I...

August 15, 2008

Not Much to Wine About

Bottle Shock, could do for Chardonnay what Sideways did for Pinot Noir. At least it...

August 02, 2008

Brideshead Eviscerated

How dare they.No, I mean really, how DARE they?! Imagine if someone did a new...

July 2008

July 28, 2008

Dark (K)Night But Not in a Good Way

Too Dark.Too long.Too fast.Too pretentious.Too loud.Too many characters.Too much steady cam.Too little substance.Too little fun.The...

July 18, 2008

Why We Need to Pray for Actors…

"Remember this, never forget it, you're just a piece of meat."(1950's studio boss Harry Cohn,...

July 17, 2008

Why it was the ‘Golden Age’…

"We want a story that starts out with an earthquakeand works its way up to...

July 12, 2008

Wall-E: No Garbage Here

I know it's brilliant. I just don't know exactly what it is.I know what it...

July 08, 2008

“Wrestling with the Truth That Saves”

Here is a link to a partial transcript of an interview I did with friend...

June 2008

June 30, 2008

“The Real Patron of the Arts”

Back in March I was interviewed for the online version of the magazine of Catholic...

June 30, 2008

The Standard Script from Walden

Here is a snip from Daily Variety's review today of Journey to the Center of...

June 26, 2008

The Fault Lies Not in Your Television, But in Yourselves

I just have to ask. Why, oh why, America, did so many of you watch...