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November 2010

November 20, 2010

Big Letdown

Can you guess what my favorite film critic, Steven Greydanus, is writing about here? Too...

February 2010

February 26, 2010

Coming Soon From the Maker of Children of Men

[UPDATE: Apparently the "scoop" that I shared below may not be such a scoop after...

October 2008

October 28, 2008

Richard Dawkins Wants Your Kids to Stop Reading Harry Potter?

If you want to save your children, take away their fantasy books! They may cry,...

January 2008

January 05, 2008

Monster, Wretches, "Bad People" … and Me.

Guillermo Del Toro, the new king of monster movies, is about to unleash Hellboy 2. But...

December 2007

December 23, 2007

Rowling: I was judged in FAO Schwarz

Here's a new TIME Magazine interview with J.K. Rowling. Excerpt: As soon as her tales...

August 2007

August 24, 2007

Specials: Harry Potter; Mother Teresa; Wilson on Atheism Books; Cummings on Satyajit Ray

I'm a week late to this blog entry, but wow... Andy Whitman writes about music...

August 15, 2007

A Reader Comments on Focus on the Family’s Rejection of Harry Potter

I received this note from a reader in response to something I mentioned in my...

July 2007

July 26, 2007

To Damn Harry Potter or Praise Him?

WARNING: SPOILERS ARE INCLUDED IN SOME OF THESE LINKS! Here's Christianity Today's Ted Olsen on...

July 14, 2007

Burning Harry at the Stake

More Christians line up to condemn Harry Potter as the devil's business... at Christian Today...

July 10, 2007

“Harry Potter’s Story is God’s Plan and Our Hope.”

Two reviews by mainstream film reviewers have been published: Kenneth Turan and A.O. Scott. Meanwhile, the rest of...

November 2005

November 22, 2005

Harry Potter smackdown!

Over at Christianity Today Movies, it's time for this year's HARRY POTTER SMACKDOWN! It begins...

November 17, 2005

Specials: PTC on Potter. GetReligion on Lewis. Apostrophes.

Thursday's specials: DEFENDING LEWIS Hooray for GetReligion, as they expose the bloodthirsty journalists trying to...

August 2005

August 29, 2005

Terry Gilliam speaks his mind.

I gotta say, I agree with Terry Gilliam, who, in spite of the mess the...

June 2004

June 04, 2004

Attention, Harry Potter Fans. (This morning’s difficulties.)

This morning's upload of the site didn't work, so there were some missing links and...

May 2004

May 12, 2004

Madeleine L’Engle on Aging and ‘The DaVinci Code’

Madeleine L'Engle's book Walking on Water: Reflections on Art and Faith is one of the...

May 11, 2004

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)

[Here's my own original review, which was first published at the original Looking Closer website...