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July 2012

July 31, 2012

Men, Step Aside.

I would much prefer a film about women in conversation than a film about men...

July 27, 2012

Auralia’s Colors… Revealed!

Once in a while, somebody responds to my fantasy series The Auralia Thread in a...

July 26, 2012

Browsing the Mailbox: July 26

Here are a few notes from this week's mailbox. (And by "mailbox," I might mean blog comments,...

July 26, 2012

The “Be the Man!” Problem in Beasts of the Southern Wild

I remain flummoxed as to why Beasts of the Southern Wild is garnering so much...

July 26, 2012

The Sound of Silence

This week at Good Letters, Tony Woodlief reflects on the silence of those who witnessed...

July 25, 2012

Poem: “In Gratitude” – by Abigail Carroll

I am thrilled to share with you a poem by Abigail Carroll. I heard her...

July 23, 2012

Barbarians in Charge: Robert Joustra on The Dark Knight Rises

Robert Joustra, the senior editor of Comment magazine and a contributor to this book, emailed...

July 22, 2012

Diagnosis: A Disappointing Dark Knight

This weekend I read a lot of reviews of The Dark Knight Rises to see...

July 21, 2012

Mysteries of the Lost Comments #1

In spite of a simple, fair Comments Policy that is available through not one but two...

July 20, 2012

Notes from Gareth Higgins and Scott Derrickson on the Shootings in Colorado…

Some thought-provoking reflections on the shootings in Aurora, Colorado, from the Facebook pages of the...

July 20, 2012

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Inevitably, answering the summons of the summertime box office, The Dark Knight Rises. And so...

July 17, 2012

From Desert Planet to Ocean Blue… Stanton’s Finding Nemo 2

It was bound to happen. Oh, the mixed feelings!

July 17, 2012

Attention, Fiction Writers: Tell It… Slant!

Breaking news from Wipf & Stock Publishers and Gregory Wolfe, author of Beauty Will Save...

July 16, 2012

Batman Begins (2005)

Here—with a few small repairs and clarifications—is my original (and very long) review of Batman...

July 14, 2012

Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

Benh Zeitlin, a first-time director, arrives in exclamation points. He films this as if he...

July 11, 2012

Darren Aronofsky’s Noah and the Pending Deluge of Bible-Based Movies

I suspect this means that we'll see Aronofsky return to lavish scenes of digitally animated...

July 10, 2012

Barnes and Noble Wants to Break Your Budget

You may wish to say the Lord's Prayer — particularly the part about "Lead us...

July 10, 2012

Does the Brain Need Stories?

If you invited me to a seminar led by brain scientist John Medina, New York...

July 09, 2012

Joplin’n’Durkin

I've been curious, but not enthusiastic, about the idea of a feature film about Janis...

July 09, 2012

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

[July 2012 Update: In the buzz of recent Hollywood news, we've learned that Jennifer Connelly...

July 07, 2012

Must-read poetry: Caduceus

Today, I welcome a special guest contributor to Looking Closer: Anne M. Doe Overstreet, who...

July 05, 2012

Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

Of Gods and Men made Steven Greydanus say that he felt like he had become...

July 04, 2012

In America (2004)

What's your favorite Fourth of July movie? If crowds and traffic will keep you away...

July 04, 2012

Truffin and Morefield on Chariots of Fire: Does God care who wins?

As a follow-up to my two-part post (1, 2) on revisiting Chariots of Fire, I...

July 03, 2012

Speaking of web-slingers: Here comes Brown Widow!

According to this report, an insurgence of strange, unfamiliar spiders is thrashing and humiliating the...

July 03, 2012

Moonrise Michael

I may have turned in my review of my favorite 2012 release so far — Wes...

July 02, 2012

What I really want is a Thom Yorke bobblehead.

Finally, I have a link for all of those people who come to this blog...

July 01, 2012

Welcome (or Welcome Back) to Looking Closer!

Well, hello to everyone here in the big Patheos.com tent! It's a privilege to be...

June 2012

June 29, 2012

What to Expect in This Blog’s Upcoming Days

The new and improved Looking Closer blog is open for business, but there will be...

April 2012

April 20, 2012

Should we stomp Blue Like Jazz because it isn’t some kind of timeless, poetic masterpiece?

It's been interesting, perusing the reviews and comments provoked by Steve Taylor's movie Blue Like...