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October 2006

October 09, 2006

Little Children – Incredible, Thoughtful and Obscene

"What do I say here?" - That was me talking to friend Sean, after we...

September 2006

September 19, 2006

Studio Stick It To ‘Em

Note to Sorkin: We know what you are doing. You think if you create a...

August 2006

August 09, 2006

Oh yeah, I had an epiphany…

...the other day. About Gen X and the Millenials. I was up late watching a...

August 04, 2006

Monster House Great Story

I don't have time to do a full review here as we are in the...

August 03, 2006

Little Miss Crass and Vulgar

Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong century. I don't tend to...

August 01, 2006

Movies About Art?

This fall, I will be teaching a course called Theology for Hollywood at both the...

July 2006

July 24, 2006

From the Mail Bag: “Better than Real”

Dear Barbara,I have a question about a statement you made in your comments about Superman...

July 21, 2006

Devil Has Some Divine Stuff

When I walked out Lady in the Water, I walked into the last hour of...

July 21, 2006

Lady in a Watery Grave of Storytellng

He has lost his mind.As Mark Shea is fond of saying, "Sin makes you crazy."...

July 20, 2006

John Thomas update

My sister sent around this report on my nephew's broken arm. So far, the prognosis...

July 16, 2006

Actors Being Fatuous on the Prairie

I am a Robert Altman fan. But I didn't get why he wanted to make...

July 12, 2006

Pirates: Dead Man’s Mess

Whatever.Circuit City has been installing a new stereo system in my car for two days...

July 09, 2006

“Truth, Justice and all that other stuff” – Is that You Returning, Superman?

Here's what I think. Briefly. Superman Returns had some cool stuff to look at. The...

June 2006

June 13, 2006

From Barb’s Mail Bag – A Professional Artist?

The following is a question I get quite often, followed by the answer I give...

June 12, 2006

Stepping all over my point…

Here is another visual paradox of the artist's offerings separated by five hundred years. I...

June 12, 2006

Being Good At What it Is: MI3

I saw MI3 yesterday in a surprisingly sold-out screening. It was so L.A. that on...

June 10, 2006

X3: Take a – Essentially Unheroic – Stand

I caught a screening of X3 last night. It is certainly mostly okay for the...

May 2006

May 17, 2006

Evil and the banal.

People are emailing me asking if I think that people will still throng to The...

May 17, 2006

On heaping coals on one’s own head…

"I'm very happy to believe that Jesus was married. I know the Catholic Church has...

May 16, 2006

Daily Variety: “Verbose…Inadequate…Lurid”

Daily Variety pretty much slams The Da Vinci Code here.Here are snips...Sitting through all the...

May 16, 2006

What a Shock. The Movie Sucks.

From the Associate Press:Updated: 6:56 p.m. ET May 16, 2006CANNES, France - “The Da Vinci...

May 16, 2006

More of Ron Howard Not Acting Defensive

"Catholics Are Victims of an Offense"ROME, MAY 15, 2006 (Zenit.org).- The press office of the...

May 16, 2006

“We have met the enemy. And he is US!”

From my mailbag...Dear Barbara, I am 48 years old, a cradle Catholic, Secular Franciscan and...

May 13, 2006

More Fun With the Mailbag

I am working like a crazy person on this script rewrite lately. If I had...

May 12, 2006

Even the Gamers Are Enraged!

Here is enjoyment for anyone with a keen sense of irony. Here is a piece...

May 12, 2006

Tom Hanks Wants Us To Know Movies Don’t Matter

Speaking about Saving Private Ryan, Tom Hanks said today, "If you are going to take...

May 10, 2006

What Schism?

Cool. The Orthodox Church has officially come out with a statement slamming The Da Vinci...

May 10, 2006

Reprise: Screwtape on Da Vinci Code

[NOTE FROM BARB: Chances are there will be a lot of extra traffic on this...

May 09, 2006

Did I mention I was born in NJ?

Which makes this weird and funny....You're New Jersey!You don't just live in the suburbs, you...

May 09, 2006

Research Request

Meanwhile, back to real life...I am working on a script project that is set in...