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January 2007

January 15, 2007

"Auralia’s Colors" … pre-order!

Imagine my surprise when someone alerted me to the fact that you can pre-order my...

January 15, 2007

“Children of Men”: Literary sabotage, or award-winning adaptation?

The debate continues: Did the screenwriters for Children of Men take a novel written by...

January 12, 2007

Nightmares Abolished! The Cover Art Will Rule.

For years, I have browsed the fantasy literature section of bookstores, and cringed at how...

January 12, 2007

Vote now in CT’s readers’ poll: Best Movies of 2006!

Just so you know, Christianity Today gives positive reviews to wicked movies like Pan's Labyrinth....

January 12, 2007

New Innocence Mission Album Details

from FMQB: On March 20, Badman Recording Co. will release We Walked In Song, the...

January 10, 2007

Review flashback: “Watership Down”

2014 Update: Oh how I wish someone would re-release Watership Down on Region 1 blu-ray...

January 10, 2007

Hobbit Trouble Continues

Somebody needs to send Peter Jackson and New Line's head guy Robert Shaye to marriage...

January 09, 2007

Jonathan Mardukas in the House

This photo of my cat, Mardukas, is featured as the "Pet Photo of the Week"...

January 09, 2007

Cuaron on “Children of Men” and Christian Themes

Thanks to Steven Greydanus for catching this revealing admission from Alfonso Cuarón regarding Children of...

January 08, 2007

2046 (2004)

2oo7 Update: This post, my 2005 first-impression review of 2046, is much too long... I...

January 08, 2007

The OFCS Awards – 2006

The Online Film Critics Society... otherwise known as the Rotten Tomatoes gang... have just posted...

January 07, 2007

My 2007 Film Viewing Journal

There is a link to this post on the side-bar of the Looking Closer blog....

January 06, 2007

Sara Zarr Interviewed at School Library Journal

You meet the most interesting people at the Glen Workshop (which, by the way, is...

January 06, 2007

“Shut Up and Sing”: Opus Cheers for the Chicks.

Yet another friend of mine, Jason Morehead, is raving about Shut Up and Sing! I...

January 06, 2007

“Window in the Skies”: The Video

U2's video for "Window in the Skies" is here, and it's a whole lot of...

January 05, 2007

The Most Meaningful Movie Moments You’ve Ever Seen

Something very special is happening right now over at the Looking Closer Journal blog. I'm...

January 03, 2007

“Marie Antoinette”: First Impressions

I was asked for my thoughts on Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette this week, and realized...

January 03, 2007

21 Grams (2003)

UPDATE 2007: Now that I've met Alejandro González Iñárritu, I'm a bigger fan of the...

January 03, 2007

An update on "Through a Screen Darkly"

The book is finished! Proofreading is done. The front and back cover are complete. I'm...

January 02, 2007

“Children of Men”: A Mother’s Perspective

Here's an intriguing response to Children of Men that was posted by Jen Zug (who...

December 2006

December 21, 2006

Indiewire Critics Rate the Best of 2006

Thanks to Doug Cummings for posting this link. It represents the votes of a long...

December 19, 2006

Alfonso Cuarón: “Narrative is the Poison of Cinema”

Children of Men drops you smack dab in the middle of an apocalypse. You'd better...

December 08, 2006

Family Stories: My Conversation with Alejandro González Iñárritu, Director of “Babel”

This interview was originally published at Christianity Today on November 8, 2006. - Alejandro González...

December 07, 2006

Christian Film Critics Publish “Outrageous, Disingenuous Lies” for God’s Glory

This week's Film Forum contains dangerous material. Christians are giving mixed reviews to The Nativity...

December 04, 2006

Twins! Congratulations to Geoffrey and Melody.

This was a scene at Geoff and Melody's house just a few weeks ago. You...

December 01, 2006

Headed Back to Auralia’s Colors for One Last Investigation

I have received the text of Auralia's Colors back from the publisher, and my editor...

November 2006

November 30, 2006

Manderlay (2005)

Danish director Lars von Trier gave us a remarkable, audacious film in 2004 called Dogville. The film starred...

November 29, 2006

Frederica Matthewes-Green on “The Nativity Story”

Here's Frederica, entertaining and insightful as always, with her take on Catherine Hardwicke's The Nativity Story....

November 29, 2006

Keeping the Christ-movie in Christmas

When I worked for the City of Seattle's Department of Construction and Land Use, one...

November 29, 2006

Questions for the writer of "The Nativity Story"?

I'll be interviewing Mike Rich, screenwriter of Finding Forrester, The Rookie, Radio, and The Nativity...