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2016-01-04T17:18:15-06:00

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The Hateful Eight: Nothing But the Blood

Last updated on: January 4, 2016 at 5:18 pm By Paul Asay

Quentin Tarantino frustrates the snot out of me. He is, unquestionably, a master craftsman. He has an eye for breathtaking visuals, an ear for mesmerizing, often gorgeous dialogue. But he has a taste for blood, too—so much so that his movies require a separate budget for it. And it often spoils his movies. I know, I know. The blood is all for show, I’m told. It’s meant to look fake and stylized and, in some strange way, pull us out... Read more

2015-12-30T16:12:35-06:00

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Watching God’s “Best” Movies of 2015

Last updated on: December 30, 2015 at 4:12 pm By Paul Asay

I love reading lists, but I don’t like making them. Choosing the “best” movies of the year is a little like trying to pick your “best” day. Would it be that day when you woke up at the perfect time and ate your perfect breakfast and everything seemed just completely right with the world? Or would it be that horrible day when you had to make that painful decision that, nevertheless, turned out to be exactly the right decision to... Read more

2015-12-28T13:36:51-06:00

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The Convicting Power of ‘Concussion’

Last updated on: December 28, 2015 at 1:36 pm By Paul Asay

I may not bleed orange and blue, but on game days I sweat the colors a little. I love the Denver Broncos, and I don’t think that’s too strong a word for it. It’s practically a requirement when you live in Colorado, and those that don’t cotton to ’em around these here parts are destined for a lifetime of scorn and crusty looks. When people ask me what my favorite television shows are, I say “football,” and I will always,... Read more

2015-12-21T08:24:22-06:00

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The Tragic Story of ‘Amy’

Last updated on: December 21, 2015 at 8:24 am By Paul Asay

When I think of music’s great voices, I think of Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, Aretha Franklin and Adele. Amy Winehouse was as good as any of ‘em. She was a tiny girl with massive pipes—her voice brassy and buttery and frayed at the edges. She was at once behind and ahead of the times—a classic jazz singer who became a pop phenomenon, a women who claimed the past and made it her own. “She had the complete gift,” the... Read more

2015-12-18T09:50:07-06:00

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Is Spoiling a Sin?

Last updated on: December 18, 2015 at 9:50 am By Paul Asay

Embed from Getty Images Jim McDermott doesn’t want me, or you, or anyone to tell him about Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens. In an article in America, the Catholic priest goes so far as to say that spoilers are a sin. Maybe not a mortal sin, but certainly some demerits on the spoiler’s karmic register. (Sorry for the mixed religious references there.) He writes: We’ve just started the Year of Mercy. And I feel pretty confident spoiling Star... Read more

2015-12-16T15:52:28-06:00

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‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Gets Spiritual

Last updated on: December 16, 2015 at 3:52 pm By Paul Asay

Kylo Ren isn’t all that he pretends to be. When we first meet him in Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, Ren (played by Adam Driver) is doing his best to look, sound and act just like his idol, Darth Vader. He wears a fearsome black mask. He has a seriously wicked-looking red light sabre. He can telepathically choke people like nobody’s business. Like Vader, he serves as a spiritual leader to a galactic power—the First Order, an organization... Read more

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2015-12-11T11:46:32-06:00

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In the Heart of the Sea, in the Eye of God

Last updated on: December 11, 2015 at 11:46 am By Paul Asay

In the Heart of the Sea gets under your skin. It’s hard for movies to stand out in December, surrounded as they are by Oscar contenders and box-office heavyweights. But a good movie sticks with you. And I’ve been noodling on this one for a couple of days. Directed by Ron Howard, In the Heart of the Sea is based on the true story of the whaling ship The Essex (and, by extension, the non-fiction book by Nathaniel Philbrick). The... Read more

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2015-12-09T11:02:54-06:00

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The Servant’s Heart of The Minions

Last updated on: December 9, 2015 at 11:02 am By Paul Asay

“You gotta serve somebody,” Bob Dylan once sang. And whatever their faults may be, the Minions at least get that. We’re not into the movie three minutes before its narrator tells us directly what they’re built to do: Serve the biggest, baddest, most evilly evildoer imaginable. Well, at least until they accidentally kill him. They serve the Tyrannosaurus Rex until they knock him off a cliff. They serve a medieval vampire until they open his crypt’s curtains for a little... Read more

2015-12-07T07:49:48-06:00

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Heaven and ‘Brooklyn’ Have Something in Common

Last updated on: December 7, 2015 at 7:49 am By Paul Asay

(Caution: Spoilers ahead.) Eilis found new life in America. It wasn’t easy for the Irish lass, played by Saoirse Ronan in the excellent film Brooklyn. She comes to New York alone, not knowing a soul in this strange, new world. Thanks in large part to the Catholic Church, she has a job and a place to stay. Thanks to her sister, she has a suitcase full of sensible clothes. But you need more than that to make a life. But... Read more

2015-12-02T11:29:23-06:00

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Beautiful Darkness: An Interview With William Riead, Director of The Letters

Last updated on: December 2, 2015 at 11:29 am By Paul Asay

Mother Teresa isn’t a saint. Not yet officially, at any rate. But for many of us, she might as well be. The tiny nun (she was just five feet tall) did some larger-than-life work in the slums of Calcutta, India, serving some of the world’s poorest people through six decades—almost right up until her death in 1997. But even though I, like most people, knew of Mother Teresa, I didn’t really know that much about her—who she was, how her... Read more

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