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April 2005

April 29, 2005

"The Second Chance" – a film by Steve Taylor

Taylor is "framing" the Church. And that's a good thing. After Steve Taylor gave the...

April 28, 2005

We’re #1?!

Sweet! The annual Evangelical Press Association (EPA) convention caught me off-guard this week, awarding Christianity...

April 28, 2005

Steven D. Greydanus discovers "one of my top ten of the year"

Steven D. Greydanus (Decent Films) is one of the best film critics on the Web...

April 27, 2005

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Bad Moviegoers

Warning... rant ahead. A Seattle film critic and her noisy obnoxious friends utterly ruined my...

April 26, 2005

Serenity Now!

My how things have changed. In the year of the climactic Star Wars episode, I'm...

April 26, 2005

Bono’s Book Creates a Convert

I can't wait to read this book. For all of the flak that Bono gets...

April 25, 2005

Madison (2005)

This review was originally published at Christianity Today. - Jim Caviezel passed up a chance...

April 25, 2005

U2 – Live in Seattle last night: A great show, slightly "dismantled" halfway through

I've seen U2 perform live four times now, and I've seen the film "Rattle and...

April 25, 2005

Bruce Springsteen and the Catholic Imagery on His New Album

I heard the new Bruce Springsteen song "Jesus was an Only Son" this morning, and...

April 24, 2005

I Have Seen Aslan.

Saw the first full-length trailer for The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe at Biola's...

April 23, 2005

Biola Day Two

Highlights: A one-on-one long lunch with Ralph Winter, producer of the X-Men movies and Fantastic...

April 23, 2005

Biola Day One

After I made the acquaintance of Greg Stump (I love meeting Looking Closer readers... it...

April 22, 2005

So long, Over the Rhine… Biola, here I come!

Thanks to Greg Stump for volunteering to get me from the airport to a hearty...

April 21, 2005

13 Years of Waiting are Coming to an End for T-Bone Burnett Fans

Billboard has the scoop.T-Bone Burnett's new album is on the way.

April 21, 2005

I was wrong about Star Fast.

As commentors pointed out, and my editor at CT discovered... I was wrong. Star Fast...

April 21, 2005

Jack Black, a Wrestling Priest? Donnie Darko Director Directs The Rock?

Jack Black will play a wrestling preacher. That's funny enough without a punchline. Donnie Darko...

April 19, 2005

Where will you be the first week of August?

You might want to consider this. What a brilliant lineup of guests. I'll be in...

April 19, 2005

Which interpretation of Star Wars will you buy?

Is this what a "culture war" looks like? The Christian interpretation? Or the Buddhist interpretation?

April 19, 2005

Deny the flesh! Go on a Star Fast!!

A long time ago, on a Web site far far away... I almost thought this...

April 18, 2005

And the Denise Levertov award goes to…

News from the house of Wolfe... Image journal and the Department of English at Seattle...

April 15, 2005

Best. Silent. Movie. Trailer. Ever.

Dante's Inferno. Made in 1911. And it has better special effects than anything you'll see...

April 13, 2005

2005 Film Nominations for [AFC]2 … so far …

Time to resurrect this post, if only to point out how lame the year 2005...

April 13, 2005

U2 Fan of the Week

Let's hear it for Coma Guy!!

April 11, 2005

Who needs "Indiana Jones 4" when we’ve got THIS?!

I've been reading about this project for years, it seems like. But the momentum is...

April 11, 2005

"Left Behind": Evangelical Pornography?

Ken Morefield examines the outrageously popular saga, and considers how it plays to evangelical "appetites."...

April 10, 2005

Over the Rhine – Drunkard’s Prayer (2005)

All marriages are broken. We’re broken people, and when we commit to each other, for...

April 08, 2005

A familiar debate: Christians and movies. But this is happening in Hong Kong!

``Christianity has just begun its move into [popular] culture here,'' says Pastor Enoch Lam. ``The...

April 08, 2005

I’m coming to Biola University!

FYI: April 22nd and 23rd, I'll be at Biola for their media conference. What a...

April 06, 2005

Have you READ "Revenge of the Sith" yet?

Doesn't it take some of the fun out of OPENING DAY to know that the...

April 05, 2005

When “Reality” TV Tries to Alter the Reality of You

Here's a sad story about a family participating in an segment of ABC's PrimeTime Live...