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January 2005

January 19, 2005

Terry Gilliam Talks About Christianity

The man who guards the Bridge of Death speaks: "With Life of Brian we were...

January 19, 2005

The New Yorker meditates on Miyazaki

The genius behind such films as My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away is the subject...

January 19, 2005

The 2005 Arts and Faith Film Critics Circle Awards – Nominations are in!

For those who don't know, the Arts and Faith Film Critics Circle is a fellowship...

January 14, 2005

Is Ebert’s Memory Failing?

UPDATE: It turns out that he was thinking of a scene from "Rick," a film...

January 14, 2005

What’s a Parable?

My friend Ron Reed happened to quote writer C.H. Dodd today in offering the definition...

January 12, 2005

Dennis Quaid: Doing What Harrison Ford Failed to Do

For the last two decades, Harrison Ford has been so narrowly focused on action-hero movies...

January 09, 2005

My Favorite Albums of 2004

Here are my favorite albums of 2004.

January 07, 2005

Frederick Buechner fans … the Buechner movie is available.

Looks like the film is finished. You can even watch the first fifteen minutes online....

January 05, 2005

Million Dollar Baby Joins My 2004 Top Ten

This always happens. No sooner do I turn in my Top Ten list of 2004...

January 04, 2005

The Top Ten Books of 2004 – by John Wilson

The editor of Books and Culture, John Wilson... ...has spoken.

January 02, 2005

The hero of Hotel Rwanda has some questions for us.

If you haven't seen Hotel Rwanda, you should. When you do, read this, a message...

December 2004

December 29, 2004

We Can Help

More important than giving Christmas presents... Help victims of the tsunami. Over two million devastated...

December 28, 2004

Gratitude

My Christmas visit with family and friends in Portland, Oregon, was a time that humbled...

December 24, 2004

Merry Christmas!

My life would be empty without Christ, who has shown me what little of love...

December 18, 2004

What friends are saying about Lemony Snicket…

My good friends and ever-so-dependable colleagues in film-dissection have beaten me to the punch on...

December 17, 2004

Guess who hates the SciFi Channel’s Earthsea?

The author. Here's Ursula LeGuin on "How the SciFi Channel Wrecked My Books"

December 16, 2004

Mmmmm! Kitten Soup!

The funniest thing I've read online today was in the blog of my brother-in-law Jeremy,...

December 14, 2004

Finding Neverland: Reflecting More Light Than It Knows?

It's hard to believe Finding Neverland, a small, beautiful, almost perfect motion picture, possessed of...

December 13, 2004

Sideways Dominates 2004 Film Awards

More and more critics' awards are coming in, and the Golden Globe nominations are in...

December 13, 2004

At GreenLake Presybterian: Let’s Talk About the Movies of 2004

You could sit and read dozens of "Year's Best" lists in the next few weeks,...

December 12, 2004

New York Online Film Critics Awards – 2004

The first group of critics have delivered their film awards for 2004. (The National Board...

December 10, 2004

Ocean’s Twelve – “Recess” for the Stars

It's hard to come away from Ocean's Eleven and Ocean's Twelve without a bad taste...

December 09, 2004

Bob Dylan Speaks.

If you missed the 60 Minutes special... ...this report has many excerpts of Dylan's interview.

December 09, 2004

Report: The Voice of Aslan is…

... Bryan Cox. (At least, that's what Ain't It Cool News is reporting.) I'm thrilled....

December 08, 2004

Deicide Dumped from Phillip Pullman adaptation

So, Chris Weitz is withdrawing all references to God and the church from his adaptation...

December 07, 2004

Fun Facts About Kinsey!

While the mainstream press writes off the Kinsey-backlash as merely a sign of paranoia and...

December 07, 2004

My weekend In Good Company in L.A.

I just returned from L.A., where I had an opportunity to participate in a press...

December 03, 2004

Reinsma Reviews the Best Novel I’ve Read This Year

I finished reading Shusaku Endo's Silence a few months ago, and there hasn't been a...

December 03, 2004

Who Will Stand Up for The Incredibles?

No mainstream American film this year has earned a higher combination of critical acclaim and...

December 01, 2004

Off-topic: Who is John Stott? (Hint: He’s bigger than Falwell.)

David Brooks shows once again why he's one of the most level-headed and important political...