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October 2007

October 03, 2007

And for something completely different…

Manohla Dargis, a film critic for the New York Times, has a review of an...

October 03, 2007

On a Lighter Note…

September 2007

September 26, 2007

A Dark Valley…

This year, two major films will examine the effects of the Iraq War on American...

August 2007

August 29, 2007

The Ultimate What If…

Films are the great hypothetical (forgive the Shaquille O'Neal analogy). We can easily ask of...

August 19, 2007

$40 Million and Two Movies

Lately, I have been putting together a syllabus for a course I want to teach...

August 16, 2007

Life on Pause…

Last fall I eagerly awaited the release of Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep. I...

August 11, 2007

The Threat of Nonbeing

How can a filmmaker visualize scent? How does a director convey odor? The senses of...

August 03, 2007

All About the Music?

A couple of months ago, Alan Ackridge, a friend and youth minister in North Carolina,...

July 2007

July 29, 2007

SUCCESS…

I doubt that any group of filmmakers have been under the amount of pressure to...

July 22, 2007

Darker Arts…

The new Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (directed by...

July 20, 2007

Ratings, ratings, ratings…

In his latest contribution to PopTheology, Daniel Skidmore reflects on the MPAA's rating system and...

July 18, 2007

Pro-Life Cinema

Thanks to Alexander Carpenter of the Beatitudes Society and The Spectrum blog for steering me...

July 10, 2007

Tony Benn

Here are some clips from Michael Moore's Sicko that feature former labour MP Tony Benn...

July 10, 2007

Towards a We Culture…

For his most recent film, Sicko, Michael Moore turns his skeptical, investigative eye towards the...

July 03, 2007

Yes You Can…

Mark my words, Brad Bird can do no wrong...cinematically speaking of course. Following the success...

July 01, 2007

Doctrines of Hope…

I seem to be encountering a string of films that, on the surface, have loads...

June 2007

June 30, 2007

A Flighty Film…

Filmed on location in the rainforests of Costa Rica, The Blue Butterfly offers stunning close-ups...

June 21, 2007

Do Unto Others…

There’s a vast chasm between (post) apocalyptic literature and films like the Left Behind series...

June 13, 2007

It's Just Money…

On one of his newer albums, The Devil You Know, Todd Snider has a song...

June 12, 2007

Messed Up…

As a fan of Judd Apatow's hilarious The 40 Year Old Virgin, I had high...

June 04, 2007

Today's Problems, Yesterday's Answers

Recently released on DVD, The Queen offers another opportunity to view a near perfect film...

June 04, 2007

Heir Unapparent

As the cinematic summer rolls on, we have the latest installment of the Shrek series....

June 04, 2007

A Slice of Joy

Big summer blockbusters not your thing? Disappointed over and over again by sequels that fail...

May 2007

May 17, 2007

The Resurgence of Religious Cinema

I recently worked on a project on the resurgence of religious cinema in the United...

May 07, 2007

A Robotic Christ?

Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his...

May 04, 2007

Too Much?

I remember seeing the earliest extended previews of Spiderman 3 that included clips of the...

May 01, 2007

Jesus and Film

Here's an interesting, brief introduction to Jesus films. The lecturer's comments on how we envision...

May 01, 2007

Blessed and Cursed

With the imminent arrival of this year’s first “summer” blockbuster, Spiderman 3, I wanted to...

May 01, 2007

Just the Action Please

If we can compare movie watching to dieting, then I consumed about three Big Macs...

April 2007

April 26, 2007

Not Very Pretty

What would you do to ensure the safety of your loved ones? What price would...