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June 2009

June 06, 2009

What Movies Are in Your Top Ten List That Aren’t in Anyone Else’s? What Albums?

Looking Closer reader Tyler Petty just came up with a good idea for a discussion...

June 06, 2009

Jeffrey Overstreet’s 140 Characters…. #1

Lately I've been thinking about how rare it is that I find myself thinking about...

June 04, 2009

The Song of Sparrows (2008)

This review, which also covers the film Departures, was originally published at Christianity Today Movies. For...

June 04, 2009

Departures (2008)

This review, which also covers the film The Song of Sparrows, was originally published at...

June 04, 2009

Browser: Lee Isaac Chung; “Departures” and “The Song of Sparrows”; David Carradine

A good Thursday to you all. 1. In the next week, I'll be posting a...

June 02, 2009

Review contest: A Poster is “Up” for Grabs

Review contest! Send me your 600- to 1200-word review of Pixar's Up. My favorite entry...

May 2009

May 28, 2009

Yes, You Should See It

May 21, 2009

Terminator Salvation (2009)

This review was originally published at Filmwell. - When Arnold Schwarzeneggar first uttered the words...

May 14, 2009

Let’s Save Paste!

Those of you who know the substantial piece of publishing that Rolling Stone once was...

May 14, 2009

Eugene Peterson, who gave us “The Message,” is in Seattle on Saturday.

Eugene Peterson will lecture, read & receive the annual Denise Levertov award, Sat. at 7:30....

May 14, 2009

Browser: Save Paste Magazine! Daniel Day-Lewis Dances! Movies Based on a True (False) Story

1. SAVE PASTE MAGAZINE. Read this urgent message from Over the Rhine and Paste magazine....

May 12, 2009

I’ve Caught Aaron Strumpel Fever

The only 5-star album I've heard thus far this year. If Nine Inch Nails sang...

May 12, 2009

Is U2 stealing the title of their next album from another singer?

In short, it appears so. Bono has declared that U2's next album is called Songs...

May 12, 2009

Flannery O’Connor in the Criterion Collection

Here's a new essay at Criterion about their latest release: Wise Blood. I've heard very...

May 12, 2009

Up, Up… and a Rave!

Hey, guess what! Looks like this new Pixar movie might be worth seeing! Yep, the...

May 09, 2009

Browser: ArtsandFaith.com, Pixar Wine, Nick Cave’s Gladiator 2, St. Vincent… and Love.

I'm sorry that things have been slow on the blog lately. I've just wrapped up...

May 08, 2009

The next Joe Henry album

Thanks to Andy Whitman for passing along this press release for the new album from...

May 07, 2009

Star Trek (2009)

Let us consider the most prominent franchises that begin with the word "Star." Star Wars...

May 06, 2009

Earthshaking news for fantasy fans: George R. R. Martin’s “The Game of Thrones”…

Tom McCarthy, director of The Station Agent and The Visitor, is going to direct HBO's...

May 05, 2009

When you watch Benjamin Button, can you forget about Brad Pitt?

During a roundtable interview with Michael Caine, I watched the actor make a tent of...

May 05, 2009

In Memory of Dom Deluise…

I have fond memories of Dom Deluise for his enthusiastic opening scene in one of...

May 01, 2009

Was It All In Her Head?

Sam Phillips is currently without a label, an intolerable circumstance. So she's releasing new songs...

April 2009

April 28, 2009

Still Life (2006) and Up the Yangtze (2007)

[These reviews of Still Life and Up the Yangtze were originally published in the "Through...

April 21, 2009

Times and Winds (2008)

This review was originally published at Good Letters, a blog published by Image. - Sharing...

April 09, 2009

Guess Why I Love This Trailer

I'm rather excited about this. Anybody want to make a guess as to why I've...

April 06, 2009

Eldorado (2008)

My review of Eldorado, a bizarre comedy from Belgian filmmaker Bouli Lanners, is published at...

April 04, 2009

Who’s the Fairest of Them All? (As Documentaries Go, Anyway…)

If I say "documentaries," most readers will probably stop reading and move on to something...

April 04, 2009

What does “mono no aware” mean?

Jason Morehead enlightens us as to the meaning of "mono no aware"... his first feature...

April 02, 2009

Sara Zarr’s in the new issue of Image.

Sara Zarr and I are very, very different people, writing very different kinds of books....

April 02, 2009

Browser: Zbignew Priesner. Jeff Buckley. Bruce Cockburn’s “Slice O Life.” Bob Dylan. U2. Tauntaun. Tom Hanks.

1. Start your day with a quick dose of Zbignew Priesner, my favorite film music...