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November 2010

November 16, 2010

Tolkien vs. the Beatles

Imagine: Once upon a time, the Fab Four—having slain the pop charts—decided to set their...

October 2010

October 19, 2010

Freedom and Government

To the list of great political theorists, I would like to add director John Ford....

October 04, 2010

The legacy of Bonnie & Clyde

Arthur Penn died, the director of Bonnie & Clyde (1967). Who besides me remembers when...

October 01, 2010

Hobbits are non-union

There is trouble with Peter Jackson's production of The Hobbit. Efforts to unionize the project...

August 2010

August 10, 2010

Route 66

Last weekend, I finally saw Cars (2006). What a good movie! I didn't expect from the...

August 09, 2010

Julia Roberts converts to Hinduism

Movie star Julia Roberts--the ex-wife of Missouri Synod Lutheran Lyle Lovett--has converted to Hinduism, along...

August 02, 2010

Inception & dreams

Upon the recommendation of many of you, we saw "Inception." What I like are complicated,...

July 2010

July 30, 2010

Movie drought

I don't know how long it's been since I've been to an actual movie theater....

July 05, 2010

Recommendations

Have you read any good books, seen any good movies, eaten any good BBQ lately,...

May 2010

May 11, 2010

Your verdict on Iron Man 2

Who has seen Iron Man 2? Is it really what one critic calls it, "a...

April 2010

April 13, 2010

The ad man as one of the writers

We have commercials. Then came product placement, in which commercials enter the storyline. Now we...

April 06, 2010

3-D, or not 3-D

That is the question in today's film industry. "Avatar" was a huge hit, with ground-breaking...

March 2010

March 31, 2010

When the movie is better than the book

This grew out of a conversation I had yesterday with a student over lunch. He...

March 10, 2010

Hollywood goes conservative?

Maybe not exactly, but the Academy Awards give Roger Simon reason to think that the...

March 08, 2010

“Hurt Locker” beats “Avatar”

"Hurt Locker," the intense thriller about an American bomb squad in Iraq--a low budget film...

February 2010

February 03, 2010

Academy Award nominations

The Oscar nominations have been released. Here are the major nominees: 1. Best Picture: "Avatar,"...

January 2010

January 26, 2010

‘Avatar’ passes ‘Titanic’

"Avatar" passed another James Cameron movie, "Titanic," as the top-grossing movie of all time, pulling...

January 18, 2010

How is “The Book of Eli”?

John Boot says that the ultra-violent "Book of Eli" is "a proudly Christian movie." Did...

January 05, 2010

The 3-D movie is one-dimensional

I went to see Avatar on New Year's Day. It was just awful--ludicrously, unintentionally-comically awful....

December 2009

December 04, 2009

It’s a Wonderful Life, if you live it for others

I did not realize that Joe Carter is such a perceptive literary critic, but he...

November 2009

November 20, 2009

Selling the end of the world to Christians

Have any of you seen 2012, the movie based on the notion that ancient Indian...

November 03, 2009

Muhammad: The Movie

In the "you don't know what you are getting into" department, one of the producers...

October 2009

October 30, 2009

The meaning of monsters

Stephen Asma is a philosophy professor writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education on Monsters...

October 05, 2009

Christian movies try to be better, but still. . .

From an article entitled "Growing quantity of `Christian’ films now focus on quality": In addition...

October 05, 2009

The gulf between the entertainment world and America

Over 100 Hollywood moguls and insiders--including Woody Allen, Martin Scorcese, David Lynch, and Harvey Weinstein--have...

September 2009

September 28, 2009

Polanski's arrest a "cultural scandal"?

Here is an example of what we were discussing earlier, whether an artist is a...

September 23, 2009

What's the appeal of bad writing?

Good discussion yesterday of Dan Brown's deadly prose. But this raises another question. Even though...

September 02, 2009

Disney is buying Marvel Comics for $4 billion

I used to buy comic books for 12 cents! Who would have thought that Marvel...

August 2009

August 28, 2009

Coming in December: Cinematic revolution?

Have you heard about this? The headline says it all:Avatar: How James Cameron's 3D film...

June 2009

June 08, 2009

Saudis go to the movies

People in Saudi Arabia's capital went to the movies for the first time in thirty...